The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[saphe]

Hope any1 can spot the next move, would be cool if you could explain how you found it aswell

[JasonLion]

There are a couple of locked candidate moves available. For example the only cells in row 8 that can contain a 1 are both in block 7. One of those two cells must contain a 1, so no other cell in block 7 can contain a 1.

[saphe]

Hey thanks for that, i was also able to cross off a 7, 2 and 4 in box 9 however now im pretty much stuck again.

Sorry i dont play sudoku often so i dont know any of the advanced strategies or anything and this is the hardest sudoku ive done so far ;p

[saphe]

also was able to cross out a 2 in box 3 and a 2 and 4 in box 6

[JasonLion]

The next step is a naked pair in column 1, then there is one more locked candidate, and it is naked/hidden singles from there.

[saphe]

Thank you was finally able to solve it.

The solutions were actually not that hard in hindsight, just shows that i have to try harder! ;p