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Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Expert grid 2

Solved: 53 of 53 blank cells right. It said it was 96% sure. All of Claude Sonnet 5.5's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT53 / 53
SAID96% sure
MODEL TIME1.2 min
COST$0.107 (API-equivalent)
TOKENS IN / OUT914 / 10,296

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

The end of its reply

I solved it by hand, using candidate elimination and placing forced cells one at a time. I did not run a program. Two spot checks passed: the columns each contain 1–9, and the rows I rechecked do too. One branch (R1C7=5) led to a contradiction, which forced R1C7=4.

<grid>
726189453
158347692
943526178
681435927
297618534
435792861
369874215
872951346
514263789
</grid>
<confidence>96</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.