Sudoku Puzzles

Magnolias are so beautiful.

Nice day / night to all!! Very good picture Kate

And they smell good too.

Magnolias ... a revered Southern Tradition ... like Hal ... but they smell better ...

Really tough.
Took me > 2 hours

After a couple of mint juleps, another revered traditon, any indescretions on Hal's part won't be noticed.

Or anybody else's for that matter.

And how would you know that, Judy?
Indescretions indeed, jeb.

Did someone mention mint julips???

Only going by what Judy said, Hal. And you know what they say about Judy.....bless her heart.

~ 2 hours too

I sense a song here, jeb...
"You know what they say about Judy;
Bless her pea-pickin' heart.
Every one's talkin' 'bout Judy;
She'll pick your psyche apart."

I might not pick your psyche apart, Hal, but I'm considering disembowelment ...

...like I said...

I am ready for May and the Kentucky derby.

Long chains, but it wasn’t going to yield to anything else:

1. Start at 23 given. SSTs to UP 26.

2. e2=6 or f2=6. If e2=6, e6=3, f6=6, a6=1 (a23=29), b6=4, e4=2 (df5=79), g6=5 (g59=34 & g23=27), i1=1 (gh9i7=345), i8=7, h4=7, h5=8, g5=4, g9=3, a9=8, b9=5(b78=23). No More...

Hi Brenda.I followed your proof to step 3.This proves that d5=9,which leads to the same UP38 as you showed in step 4,so you really have no need for step4,I think.
At the end of your step 5,I found h3 could still =5.Maybe this step needs some more work?
Regards,Alfred.

Point 1 - Of course. Overlooking the obvious seems to be my specialty. Then again, I think i was just too in love with the cleverness of the step to see something that would elimnate it.

Point 2 - Sorry, after i1=7 I left out (bc1=28), c3=5.

And thanks for checking Alfred. I appreciate it.

Regards,
Brenda

SE=8.4