Sudoku Puzzles

You've got ME in stitches, kitty!
Can you imagine being ABLE to do that?
(But... Can't/won't/don't!)

Too too tough for today.

Is this kitty named 'Stitches' or is she licking her stitches? Either way...she's a cute cat showing us her stuff!

Think I'll stick with a glass of burgundy.

He's still sipping, Ladies and Gentlemen ...

Maybe after SEVERAL of Hal's glasses of burgundy...

Stitches, so named because she had her leg stitched, a hernia repair and the end of her tail amputated, all as the result of being hit by a car, before she was 2 months old. She was still a kitten when I took this. She was 13 when she died unexpectedly last January, just after I had submitted this photo.

Why? Because I can ...

And I hope someone has a corkscrew because we're going to need to open another bottle soon ...

maen all! yup, i'm ready for a hot toddy...its 20f but it feels like 0f now that the snow has stopped and the wind picked up...dese ol' bones ain't what they were!

How undignified!

1. Note pair 13 at b8/c9.Unique possibilities to 29.
2. If e1=8=g3,b3=6;row 1 is devoid of 6.Hence e1=136.
3. If e1=6,b3=6,pair 67 at d56.
3(A). If now d5=6=g9=a7,d6=7,column a is devoid of 7.
3(B). Or d6=6=g5,a6=7,a4=9=g9=e7,central box is devoid of 9.
Hence e1 is not 6,b3=8.UPs to More...

Conclusion to step 4 should read c7=2.

Hi Alfred,
For step 3a I am not so clear;
3a)if d5=6,g9=6,=>ab7=67;d5=6,b5=7,=>a7=7,b7=6 (not a7=6).
Regards,Sotir

Showing us a bit tooo much stuff there Vici!! Think I'll stick with Hal and Cathy, and bring a corkskrew!!

Hi Sotir.In step 3,already b3=6.So in your chain,b5=7,b3=6;b7 cannot =67,creating the contradiction.

I saw later,I did not need step 2,if I start step 3 with: If b3=6,e1=6 (and the rest is the same as above.)
Regards,Alfred.

Bev, Stitches was most definitely aptly named, Stumpy would have been undignified!
RIP Stitches.
Thanks for sharing her with us, Bev.

I just cannot manage to finish a tough.
Too tough for me.

Thanks Alfred.
Regards,Sotir.

Over an hour (needed help from Alfred)

SE=8.9

1.SST to UP29
2.aur(14)ch56 > -1i9
3.(3)hi6=(3-1)i4=i6-(1=348)cfh6 > -3de6
4.K cell(289)a4 > -2h8 UP30
(2)a4-a1=(2-3)b1=(3-1)b8=h8
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(8)a4-a9=abc7-h7=(18')h89
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(9)a4-(9=5)g5-h5=(158')h789
5 .(2)c7=c5-(2=5)f5-h5=(158')h789 > -2h7
6.K column(3)e149 > More...

typo: deduction is +48e4 in step 7.

My own take on this animal -
1) Start 22; SSTS to UP 29; Some SSTS
2) AUR(14)ch56 => (1): i46 =c9 => i9<>1; LC(1) => h56<>1
3) HP(79)cornered at d6 = (9)SFadg495 - (6)g5 = (6)de5 => d6<>6
4) FSF(6)bei167a1 = (6-7)a7 = a6 - d6 = (7-6)d5 = (6)d3 => More...