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[AThiker]

I have been saving some unsolved puzzles to use the forum to learn how to solve. It looks like most of the 2007 posts were lost. So I am starting new ones for the puzzles I have not been able to solve. The oldest is Jan 6 and there are about a dozen. Will try to post them over the next week or so.

+-------------+------------+--------------+
| 3 2 1 | 56 7 68 | 468 9 458 |
| 789 5 78 | 4 389 2 | 678 1368 18 |
| 789 6 4 | 35 389 1 | 278 238 258 |
+-------------+------------+--------------+
| 6 14 58 | 9 2 7 | 3 158 148 |
| 2 13 35 | 8 6 4 | 9 15 7 |
| 78 47 9 | 1 5 3 | 24 28 6 |
+-------------+------------+--------------+
| 5 79 267 | 267 38 68 | 1 4 289 |
| 1 39 36 | 2 4 5 | 68 7 89 |
| 4 8 267 | 67 1 9 | 5 26 3 |
+-------------+------------+--------------+

This is where we get stuck. Any help will be appreciated.

[Steve R]

Here is the grid after a little housekeeping:

[AThiker]

Thanks, not sure how I missed that 6, and yes the other was a typo.

How do you get your grid to line up. I use the playon line option and the ASCII file, but my grids do not line up.

Thanks again.

[Steve R]

In theory you simply select the grid when the message is in the message window and click the code button. It looks just the same in the window but lines up nicely when you click the preview or submit button.

In practice I often find something goes awry so I generally paste the grid to my word processing program first, convert it to a Courier font and check that the box is square etc before proceeding as above.

Steve

[Marty R.]

[csc]

Steve,
Your solution proceeded from:

[Steve R]

schua,

In my earlier post I started from the position I was given without thought as to how it might be reached.

Taking your grid instead:

[csc]

Thanks, Steve.
This must be the first time the Draw/Play solver uses an xyz wing to give a hint?
regards
scchua