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This Sudoku Puzzle has 71 steps and it is solved using Naked Single, Hidden Single, Full House, Locked Candidates Type 1 (Pointing), Skyscraper, undefined, Uniqueness Test 4, Sue de Coq, Empty Rectangle, AIC, Naked Pair techniques.
Naked Single
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Hidden Single
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Locked Candidates
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Full House
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Solution Steps:
- Row 5 / Column 5 → 9 (Naked Single)
- Row 5 / Column 4 → 2 (Hidden Single)
- Row 5 / Column 6 → 6 (Naked Single)
- Row 7 / Column 8 → 2 (Hidden Single)
- Row 8 / Column 5 → 5 (Hidden Single)
- Row 7 / Column 6 → 9 (Hidden Single)
- Row 6 / Column 4 → 4 (Hidden Single)
- Row 7 / Column 4 → 8 (Hidden Single)
- Row 6 / Column 2 → 7 (Hidden Single)
- Row 8 / Column 4 → 1 (Hidden Single)
- Row 3 / Column 4 → 3 (Naked Single)
- Row 9 / Column 4 → 7 (Full House)
- Row 8 / Column 6 → 3 (Full House)
- Row 4 / Column 6 → 7 (Naked Single)
- Row 4 / Column 5 → 3 (Full House)
- Locked Candidates Type 1 (Pointing): 7 in b9 => r2c9<>7
- Skyscraper: 8 in r3c2,r5c1 (connected by r35c9) => r12c1,r4c2<>8
- Skyscraper: 3 in r1c3,r2c9 (connected by r7c39) => r1c78,r2c1<>3
- W-Wing: 6/5 in r6c1,r9c2 connected by 5 in r2c12 => r4c2,r9c1<>6
- XY-Wing: 1/5/6 in r35c3,r6c1 => r1c1,r4c3<>6
- Uniqueness Test 4: 1/7 in r1c58,r2c58 => r12c8<>1
- Sue de Coq: r1c123 - {12368} (r1c6 - {28}, r3c3 - {16}) => r2c12,r3c2<>1, r3c2<>6, r1c7<>8
- Empty Rectangle: 1 in b6 (r3c38) => r4c3<>1
- Row 4 / Column 3 → 2 (Naked Single)
- Row 8 / Column 2 → 2 (Hidden Single)
- Locked Candidates Type 1 (Pointing): 4 in b7 => r7c79<>4
- AIC: 1/7 7- r1c5 =7= r1c8 =4= r1c7 -4- r8c7 =4= r8c9 -4- r5c9 -8- r4c7 =8= r2c7 =1= r2c5 -1 => r1c5<>1, r2c5<>7
- Row 1 / Column 5 → 7 (Naked Single)
- Row 2 / Column 5 → 1 (Full House)
- Row 2 / Column 8 → 7 (Hidden Single)
- AIC: 5 5- r2c1 -2- r2c6 -8- r2c7 =8= r4c7 =1= r1c7 -1- r3c8 =1= r3c3 -1- r5c3 -5 => r56c1<>5
- Row 6 / Column 1 → 6 (Naked Single)
- Row 5 / Column 3 → 5 (Hidden Single)
- Naked Pair: 3,5 in r67c7 => r29c7<>3, r9c7<>5
- Row 2 / Column 9 → 3 (Hidden Single)
- Row 7 / Column 9 → 7 (Naked Single)
- Row 8 / Column 3 → 7 (Hidden Single)
- Row 9 / Column 2 → 6 (Hidden Single)
- Row 9 / Column 7 → 9 (Naked Single)
- Row 2 / Column 7 → 8 (Naked Single)
- Row 2 / Column 6 → 2 (Naked Single)
- Row 1 / Column 6 → 8 (Full House)
- Row 2 / Column 1 → 5 (Naked Single)
- Row 2 / Column 2 → 9 (Full House)
- Row 1 / Column 2 → 1 (Naked Single)
- Row 9 / Column 1 → 3 (Naked Single)
- Row 9 / Column 8 → 5 (Full House)
- Row 3 / Column 2 → 8 (Naked Single)
- Row 3 / Column 3 → 6 (Naked Single)
- Row 4 / Column 2 → 4 (Naked Single)
- Row 7 / Column 2 → 5 (Full House)
- Row 1 / Column 1 → 2 (Naked Single)
- Row 1 / Column 3 → 3 (Full House)
- Row 7 / Column 3 → 1 (Full House)
- Row 7 / Column 1 → 4 (Full House)
- Row 7 / Column 7 → 3 (Full House)
- Row 6 / Column 8 → 3 (Naked Single)
- Row 6 / Column 7 → 5 (Full House)
- Row 3 / Column 9 → 9 (Naked Single)
- Row 3 / Column 8 → 1 (Full House)
- Row 5 / Column 8 → 4 (Naked Single)
- Row 1 / Column 8 → 6 (Naked Single)
- Row 1 / Column 7 → 4 (Full House)
- Row 4 / Column 8 → 9 (Full House)
- Row 5 / Column 9 → 8 (Naked Single)
- Row 5 / Column 1 → 1 (Full House)
- Row 4 / Column 1 → 8 (Full House)
- Row 8 / Column 7 → 6 (Naked Single)
- Row 4 / Column 7 → 1 (Full House)
- Row 4 / Column 9 → 6 (Full House)
- Row 8 / Column 9 → 4 (Full House)
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