scrose wrote:Finlip wrote:This was the
solution given in the newspaper.
Using the published solution as a guide, if you add enough clues to make the
original starting grid symmetrical, the new starting grid has one solution and the Pappocom software rates the puzzle as "medium".
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2 1 . | . 9 . | . 3 .
3 7 . | 1 . 8 | . . 4
. . 8 | . . 3 | 1 . .
-------+-------+-------
7 3 . | . 8 . | . . 2
. 2 . | . 1 . | . 9 .
9 . . | . 4 . | . 1 6
-------+-------+-------
. . 2 | 8 . . | 9 . .
5 . . | 9 . 2 | . 8 1
. 9 . | . 6 . | . 2 7
If you have the newspaper handy, could you please post the newspaper's solution for
this puzzle?
So on that day the newspaper must have made a mess. They asked two puzzles, one rated easy and the other hard. However, apparently both were wrong. I don't have the solution to the second puzzle with me right now but I have to apologize here for the fact that I put an extra dot between 4 and 1 and there had to be four dots at the end. But I have a feeling that the puzzle might still be wrong.
Actually I have the solution with me at the time I'm editing this post. But I don't want to look at the solution until I try. If there is only one soloution to this puzzle, I'd like to give it a try.
Carefully, the second puzzle was exactly like this
84.15....
5....346.
.........
3......9.
.6.5.2.8.
........2
.........
.578....4
....9..25
I have rechecked it and this time I know for sure that I copied it correctly. I apologize again for my carelessness on more than one occasion earlier.
