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Claude Opus 5.5 on Gentle grid 6

Solved: 52 of 52 blank cells right. It said it was 99% sure. All of Claude Opus 5.5's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT52 / 52
SAID99% sure
MODEL TIME1.0 min
COST$0.143 (API-equivalent)
TOKENS IN / OUT912 / 6,795

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

The end of its reply

<grid>
534987261
927146853
861523749
173295684
245861397
698374512
719652438
486739125
352418976
</grid>

<confidence>99</confidence>

I solved this by hand with candidate elimination; every given digit is kept. I checked that all nine rows and all nine columns contain 1 to 9 exactly once. I did not re-check the 3x3 boxes separately after finishing.

Grid gentle-5 of set v1, 29 givens. Puzzle as one line: ....87..1.2..4....86.5.37..1.....68..4..6..9..98.....2..96.2.38....3..2.3..41....