Comments on Blaine's Puzzle Blog: Friday Fun - Mini-Sudoku Puzzle (nine squares!)

I tried trial and error first, but quickly realize...

2009-03-26T13:25:00.000-07:00

I tried trial and error first, but quickly realized my formulas for such would take too much time to solve, so I figured it out using a different formula which got it solved in a matter of seconds.

A spreadsheet works well, but care must be taken a...

2008-10-22T12:10:00.000-07:00

A spreadsheet works well, but care must be taken as to how it is set up.

Thanks for this! My husband and I went about it i...

2008-09-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

Thanks for this! My husband and I went about it in different ways. He reduced formulas and came up with a set of rules from which to work. I came up with the combinations of 5 digits to get the sums, and compared overlapping numbers to formulate the rules. We both finished with a mini-trial-and-error at the end.

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