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Postby helpmeplease » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:49 pm

:'o( ok i give up. anyone see the next step?

385 291 674
**2 7*8 *39
*** 36* *82

94* *37 215
**3 *** 796
*** **9 843

257 913 468
*3* 576 921
1** 482 357
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Postby stuartn » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:38 pm

look at the column that the 6's occupy in Box 4. You can then make an exclusion from elsewhere in the column.

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Postby helpmeplease » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:52 pm

im sorry, i dont see what you mean. could you expand on that?
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Postby stuartn » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:02 pm

The candidate 6's in box 4 are in a single column only. That means that the 6 in that column is in one of the two cells in box 4. It can't be anywhere else. So you can make an exclusion in row 9. Hope this helps.

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Postby helpmeplease » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:04 pm

i have 4 possibles for 6 in box 4. how have you narrowed it to two?
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Postby SteveF » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:21 pm

There is a naked pair in row 6, ie two cells that can only contain 1 or 6. Therefore you can eliminate 1's and 6's from other cells in row 6.
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Postby helpmeplease » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:27 pm

oh no. what a muppet i am. to be fair i have raging dental pain, so i'm claiming that as an excuse! ;)

thankyou
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Postby stuartn » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:25 pm

Muppets assisted at no extra cost. Glad to be of help. Hope the teeth feel better soon.

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