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Hi all,
I'm very new to Sudoku. I'm stuck at this point. Thanks.

+--------------+------------+--------------+
| 16 2 59 | 17 1579 3 | 4 167 8 |
| 168 368 389 | 2 179 4 | 5 1367 ...

Brain Bashers has a good explanation of most of the 'standard' advanced techniques:

http://brainbashers.com/sudokuhelp.asp

The very and super hard puzzles often require (or at least can be) solv ...

The opening basic moves certainly get you pretty far into the puzzle, but I don't see how you can get past here without using an x-wing.

+-------------+---------+------------+
| 359 1 258 | 34 ...

+-----------+----------+-----------+
| 7 9 12 | 25 56 4 | 13 8 136 |
| 5 14 124 | 8 3 26 | 7 9 16 |
| 6 8 3 | 7 1 9 | 2 5 4 |
+-----------+----------+-----------+
| 1 2 ...

A little something until the next Very Hard shows up here. An interesting puzzle from BrainBashers that didn't (as usual) require a UR before the puzzle to fall apart.

It opened up with either a s ...

+--------------+----------+-------------+
| 59 2 8 | 35 1 39 | 7 6 4 |
| 6 3 4 | 58 2 7 | 9 58 1 |
| 1579 157 79 | 6 89 4 | 358 358 2 |
+--------------+---------- ...

It would help a whole lot if you posted how far along in the puzzle you are...

The x-wing opened a naked triple... After that it was basically just a straight forward grind to slowly piece together the rest of the puzzle. Didn't need any "advanced" techniques.

The ...

Jeff,

From where you are you don't need the X-Wing. Just the XY and then the naked pair. Box1 is where you should be looking. If you need a more precise hint, let me know.

Perhaps I went a ro ...

Beaten to the reply while I was typing. Serves me right for surfing the forums while at work.

Can you explain to me how you determined that R1C1 or R4C3 must be a 9? I just don't see it... Thank you

Row 1 has a nine in either Col 1 or 6;
Row 4 has a nine in either Col 3 or 6.

The pat ...

How did you get the 6 in row 4, column 2?

3 steps to get the 6 in r4c2.

An X-wing, an XY-Wing, then a naked pair.