Online Sudoku Workshop: A pretty little puzzle

We have, of course, more than enough material to construct a metaphor useful to analyzing gender. But just for fun, let’s take a genderless gander at another puzzle. This one:

You now have all the information you need to get the top-right square into the following state:

Don’t move forward with any other aspect of the puzzle until you’ve gotten the top-right square to this position. The 8 gained in box C:A (the top-left square) is a consequence of filling in the top-right square to this point. The 1 & 8 gained in the bottom-middle square are not relevant, though they follow easily from our starting position because of the 8 in box A:F.

Where can I play sudoku? The screen shots above were taken during my puzzle solving at websudoku.com. I have no idea if they’re the best, worst, or otherwise among sudoku sites, but they were tops in an english language search when I went to go ogle puzzle possibilities and I’ve never seen any reason to try anything different. In comments on the first Online Sudoku Workshop, many people mentioned the sudokuwiki.org sudoku solver as a great information source and a place to both play sudoku and to learn more about how best to solve these puzzles.