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Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Devious grid 3

Solved: 49 of 49 blank cells right. It said it was 96% sure. All of Claude Sonnet 5.5's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT49 / 49
SAID96% sure
MODEL TIME1.0 min
COST$0.092 (API-equivalent)
TOKENS IN / OUT923 / 8,835

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 row, column and box elimination, plus a short case split on box 8 and box 5.

<grid>
127986534
536147982
984253167
641798325
298635741
375412896
753824619
469371258
812569473
</grid>
<confidence>96</confidence>

Grid devious-2 of set v1, 32 givens. Puzzle as one line: .2.9.6..45..14.....84...16.6.1.9..2......5...375..2.9.7..8...194..3..2....25...73