Monday 25 September 2017

Solution to Sudoku no 117

Here is my original version of the solution:


Here is another version from Ahmed El Gendy, a member of the Sudoku Puzzles Facebook group. It took him 15 minutes to complete:


...and here is another one, which Mustapha Maazouz took 3 days to finish:


This version was provided by Dolgorsvren Gunaasvren:

Sudoku no 117 (Easy)

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Saturday 16 September 2017

Solution to Sudoku no 116

This puzzle was very difficult. Here is the solution I published:


...and to prove that it can be solved, here is another version sent to me by Arun, a work colleague. You can see that he has used the Excel spreadsheet, which you can download using the link below the puzzle:


The next version came from Christine, who works for Total in France:


The third correct solution came from Solving Sudoku, who is a member of my Sudoku Puzzles group on Facebook. He said: I do it finish. Maybe I'm not careful, so I have to do it many times. I'm sorry. Can you give me max hard? Have a good day. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, I only have one puzzle more difficult than this one but hopefully I should be able to make some more:

Sudoku no 116 (Diabolical)


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