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Qwen3.8 Flash-Next on Expert grid 2

Solved: 53 of 53 blank cells right. It said it was 100% sure. All of Qwen3.8 Flash-Next's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT53 / 53
SAID100% sure
MODEL TIME49.3 min
COSTlocal, no list price
TOKENS IN / OUT751 / 58,312

5 given 5 filled correctly 53 wrong, with the right digit 3 left empty

The end of its reply

Looking at this puzzle, I'll solve it systematically using constraint propagation and logical deduction.

**Key steps:**
1. Found that 6 could only go in (3,6) in Box 2, then 8→(1,5), 7→(2,6)
2. In Box 3, 9 could only go in (2,8), completing Row 2: (2,2)=5, (2,4)=3
3. Found (3,7)=1, (3,3)=3, (3,2)=4, (1,1)=7 in Box 1
4. Used column/row intersections to place (6,1)=4, (7,1)=3, (5,2)=9
5. In Row 6, (6,5)=9, (6,8)=6; in Col 5, (7,5)=7, (4,5)=3, (8,5)=5
6. Solved Row 9 completely: (9,9)=9, (9,4)=2, (9,2)=1, (9,7)=7
7. Completed remaining cells through elimination: (3,4)=5, (3,5)=2, (8,6)=1, (8,3)=2, (8,1)=8, etc.

<grid>
726189453
158347692
943526178
681435927
297618534
435792861
369874215
872951346
514263789
</grid>
<confidence>100</confidence>

Grid expert-1 of set v1, 28 givens. Puzzle as one line: ...1.9...1.8.4.6.29......786.....9....761...4.357....1.......1..7....3..5.4.63.8.