NYT continues its recent trend of easy and relaxing puzzles for the week-end. As at minute 17 when you finally get the 1 and 8 disambiguated in row 5, if you just care too look around, you have sudoku 101 locked-in digits to finish block 6 and from there the rest of the central horizontal part of the grid and from there all of the puzzle. 11minutes notation free. Here is my path from that point: 8 in 69 (row 6, col 9) - 6 in 49 - 4 in 47 - 7 in 44 - 1 in 45 - 5 in 43 - 2 in 41 - 5 in 12 - 2 in 13 - 3 in 11 - 1 in 22 and in 16 - 6 in 26, 31,. 62 and 94 1 in 97 - 9 in 87 - 3 in 77 - and from there, it gets even easier.
NYT continues its recent trend of easy and relaxing puzzles for the week-end. As at minute 17 when you finally get the 1 and 8 disambiguated in row 5, if you just care too look around, you have sudoku 101 locked-in digits to finish block 6 and from there the rest of the central horizontal part of the grid and from there all of the puzzle. 11minutes notation free. Here is my path from that point:
8 in 69 (row 6, col 9) - 6 in 49 - 4 in 47 - 7 in 44 - 1 in 45 - 5 in 43 - 2 in 41 - 5 in 12 - 2 in 13 - 3 in 11 - 1 in 22 and in 16 - 6 in 26, 31,. 62 and 94 1 in 97 - 9 in 87 - 3 in 77 - and from there, it gets even easier.
Funny how the difficulty rating can vary so. Yes, a straight forward one today with lots of pairs. I actually wrote them in as I went.
Could solve without help
A bit hard for me. 12 mins.