Weekly Assassin Killer Sudoku

Killer Sudoku is an interesting variant of Sudoku that has gained a lot of popularity lately. The combination of the logic of Sudoku with the arithmetic of the sums provides that extra level of difficulty that many advanced Sudoku players were waiting for.

SudoCue.net presents a weekly Killer Sudoku. In the best of our tradition, this killer is a true Assassin. Don't turn your back on it.

Assassin 53 for the week starting Friday June 1, 2007

Besides 2 early placements, this Assassin barely has any candidates left before it breaks. It comes with the pattern, as you will discover when you try the V2.

The vague line below is a code string that you can select, copy and paste in SumoCue. Other programs also support this format.

3x3::k:4864:4864:4864:6659:6659:6659:4102:4102:4102:1033:1033:6155:6659:3597:6659:3599:3344:3344:2066:6155:6155:3349:3597:1303:3599:3599:2842:2066:6155:3349:3349:2079:1303:7457:3599:2842:6180:6180:6180:6180:2079:7457:7457:7457:7457:3629:5934:6180:3120:2079:4146:4146:4148:3381:3629:5934:5934:3120:3130:4146:4148:4148:3381:1855:1855:5934:6210:3130:6210:4148:3142:3142:3656:3656:3656:6210:6210:6210:3662:3662:3662: