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Sudoku Susser it is. And thanks for saving my hair. Deb

I hadn't realized that about the computer hint, but it makes sense, of course -- you can hardly "see" removing a candidate from a multi-candidate cell. Thanks very much for taking the time ...

nataraj, thanks for trying. I guess since I put so much time into trying to find some solution from rows 4 & 5, and since the computer seemed to agree, I was tearing my hair out trying to see it. ...

This puzzle is giving me palpitations. This is where I got to. My gut kept telling me the next step was in rows 4 & 5 with that cozy mix of 46's but I couldn't figure it out. When I asked for a ...

Medusa, Skyscraper, W-Wing! Who knew?!? Thanks all. I've bookmarked your links and I'll read (Ah, STUDY) them. Thanks for helping out a newbie.

wapati, thanks so much for the elegant demo. I see now that it really was a guess at the "89".

And now I know what a hinge is.

But I'm afraid the w-wing eluded me. (as did x-wing ...

I didn't realize one had to learn so many techniques. I thought it was all logic. Thanks for the pointers.

I'm new to Sudoku. I find the "hard" ones easy but the "very hard" ones impossible...until today's. I completed it, but I'm not sure how; it wasn't a lucky guess, I used logic, b ...