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[kermitbone]

I need some help getting the 7 in R6C8, which is what the hint tells me is a 7.

An explanation for this newbie, would be much appreciated.

[code]
+------------+------------------+-------------+
| 4 138 137 | 9 6 138 | 2 78 5 |
| 2 5 367 | 378 4 38 | 1 678 9 |
| 9 168 167 | 5 178 2 | 478 4678 3 |
+------------+------------------+-------------+
| 8 39 2 | 37 379 345 | 4579 1 6 |
| 7 139 1359 | 1368 1389 134568 | 459 459 2 |
| 6 4 159 | 2 179 15 | 3 579 8 |
+------------+------------------+-------------+
| 1 2 69 | 368 38 7 | 589 589 4 |
| 5 69 4 | 168 2 168 | 89 3 7 |
| 3 7 8 | 4 5 9 | 6 2 1 |
+------------+------------------+-------------+

Thanks,

[Victor]

Hi, welcome. Your grid didn't display properly by the way. (I'll leave somebody who's more into that stuff than me to explain why.) Here it is again.

[nataraj]

kermitbone,

there is a naked triple 379 in row 4 that should help you along.

and please insert blanks into your grid so the columns are aligned. Makes it much easier to look at

[nataraj]

hail, Victor
you beat me to it.
took a while to see the grid

[Marty R.]

[nataraj]

[keith]

[Ingies]

I found a hidden pair 45, 45 in r4 solved this sudoku for me, that left a 7 in r6c8.

[nataraj]

Puzzle about non-aligned grid solved:

The blank spaces had been there all the time.
In other words, kermitbone had posted a perfectly readable, well aligned grid.

But ...

The forum software removes all "superfluous" blanks from normal text lines, so the blanks needed to align the grid were not shown because kermitbone forgot the closing /code tag.

But they were not removed from the original post. Therefore, when one hits the "quote" button, the original text - including all blanks - is displayed in the text area.

I wrote:

[kermitbone]

Thanks for the help on the puzzle and correctly posting the puzzle.

I do know a little bit about html and should have realized when you have an opening tag such as

[gohast]

Hi Kermitbone

I'm a couple of weeks ahead of you, can solve most of the VHs now. Can I recommend the http://www.brainbashers.com/sudokuhelp.asp site. I found it to be the clearest explanations of the various techniques.

Good luck

Graham