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[junior]

Hello everyone. New to the sport.
Sorry for bringing you back to August. My puzzle till now is like this

8-1/--4/7--
--5/7--/-38
6-7/9-8/45-

5-9/--1/---
-7-/-9-/-15
---/--5/3-9

-52/1-7/--4
78-/--9/---
--6/8--/5--

and the hint says r9c6=3. Any help with the logic of it? Thanks.

[someone_somewhere]

Ok, Junior,
here some help:

1 not in r9c9, it is in r8c7 or r8c9 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
3 not in r4c2, it is in r1c2 or r3c2 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
3 not in r9c2, it is in r1c2 or r3c2 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
3 not in r5c4, it is in r5c1 or r5c3 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
3 not in r5c6, it is in r5c1 or r5c3 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
3 in r9c6 3 in r8c9 - Unique Vertical

and from here you should fly alone ...

see u,

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[alanr555]

> Ok, here some help:

> 1 not in r9c9, it is in r8c7 or r8c9 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
> 3 not in r4c2, it is in r1c2 or r3c2 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
> 3 not in r9c2, it is in r1c2 or r3c2 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
> 3 not in r5c4, it is in r5c1 or r5c3 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
> 3 not in r5c6, it is in r5c1 or r5c3 of the 3x3 (3x3 Block on Row/Column interaction)
> 3 in r9c6 3 in r8c9 - Unique Vertical

> and from here you should fly alone ...

Two points arise:

1) What would lead one

a) To test on digit 3?
b) To test column 6?
c) To test row 9?
d) To test box 8?

as the priority for the next resolution.

2) What is the relevance of r9c9 not having value 1?
This is a consequence of either r9c1 or r9c2 being 1 (the only
cells available in box 7 with a 1 in col3 and a 1 in row 7 already).
But, how does it affect the placement in r9c6?

3) My own approach is to test a line (row OR column) if it has six or
more "known" values (and often testing five also is fruitful).

Here column 6 has missing values 2,3,6
Row 2 excludes 3 and so allows 2,6
Row 5 allows 2,3,6 at present
Row 9 excludes 6 and so allows 2,3.

The key to unblocking this is to know that r5c1 or r5c3 must have
value 3 and so r5c6 CANNOT have value 3. This puts a 3 in r9c6.

My own work on "Mandatory Pairs" (to be submitted shortly) would
reveal this situation almost transparently but in the absence of any
"pencil marks" -

How does one carry in one's head the sequence of

a) one of r1c2 and r3c2 must have value 3.
Thus
b) one of r5c1 and r5c3 must have value 3

at the same time as evaluating the missing items in column 6?

+++

My admiration (and marvelling) is for those who CAN hold such a
complex series of patterns simultaneously - and also who are able
to FORGET those patterns as soon as the puzzle is solved and the
need to remember them has dissipated. I know that I could LEARN
some patterns for a grid by setting up associations to put such into
longer term memory - but my need is remember the patterns only
for the next hour (hopefully less!!) and then to erase them..

Is there any technique that can be learned by others to assist in this?
Is it the same skill as is required to play bridge, for example?

Alan Rayner BS23 2QT

[David Bryant]