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[violetb]

Have edited --sorry
Please help with this puzzle---yes, I know it's simple but I am simple minded and just started with Sudoku. I want to see where I went wrong.
- - - 6 - - 7 8 4
- - - - 1 - - - -
4 8 - - - - - - -
- - - - 6 - 9 - 5
1 - - - 3 - - - 8
5 - - - 7 - - - -
- - - - - - - - 3
- - - - 4 - - - -
7 6 3 - - 5 - 2 -

Sorry about the looks of the chart

[RW]

Please, check the grid. There's 10 cells in rows 5 and 6, cannot make a unique solution puzzle out of it as it is now.

RW

[daj95376]

According to Simple Sudoku, your edited puzzle has 1,399 solutions.

[RW]

I added some clues to make it symmetrical and unique. Try one of these instead:

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 *-----------*
 |.5.|6..|784|
 |...|.1.|...|
 |48.|...|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |...|.6.|9.5|
 |1..|.3.|..8|
 |5.4|.7.|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |...|...|.93|
 |...|.4.|...|
 |763|..5|.2.|
 *-----------*

 *-----------*
 |.1.|6..|784|
 |...|.1.|...|
 |48.|...|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |...|.6.|9.5|
 |1..|.3.|..8|
 |5.9|.7.|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |...|...|.93|
 |...|.4.|...|
 |763|..5|.2.|
 *-----------*

RW