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*--------------------------------------------------------------*
| 9 2 3 | 6 5 7 | 14 48 18 |
| 5 67 4 | 8 9 1 | 2 67 3 |
|b67 1 8 | 4 3 2 | 9 567 a57 |
|--------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
| 2 47 9 | 1 67 5 | 8 3 46 |
|c47 3 1 | 2 67 8 | 56 9 d46-5 |
| 8 5 6 | 9 4 3 | 17 27 12 |
|--------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
| 3 9 2 | 5 8 4 | 67 1 67 |
| 1 48 5 | 7 2 6 | 3 48 9 |
| 46 468 7 | 3 1 9 | 45 25 28 |
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The simplest move that I found that solves this puzzle is the following: Since you say you are new to Sudoku I'll describe this in words. Look at the cells I've marked a, b, c and d.
Suppose r3c9 (cell a) was
not 5. Then it must be 7. So r3c1 (cell b) must not be 7. So r5c1 (cell c) must be 7 (since there are only two 7's in Column 1), so it must not be 4.
So cell r5c9 (cell d) must be 4 (since there are only two 4's in Row 5).
So summarizing, if r3c9 is
not 5 then r5c9 is 4.
In particular it is not 5. On the other hand if r3c9
is 5 then r5c9 is obviously not 5.
Since in r3c9 the 5 must only be either True or False then we have shown that in both cases r5c9 can't be 5. So you can remove the 5 from r5c9. This means that r3c9 is 5 and the puzzle solves easily after that.
The standard notation (gobbledegook) for this move is : (5=7) r3c9 - r3c1 = (7-4) r5c1 = (4) r5c9 => - 5 r5c9
Notice that the notation only describes the longer leg of the move (cells abcd). The obvious leg (cells a & d only) is usually left out because, well, it's obvious !
Leren