SUDOKU BENCHMARK · TRICKY

Qwen3.8 Flash-Next on Tricky grid 5

Solved: 55 of 55 blank cells right. It said it was 100% sure. All of Qwen3.8 Flash-Next's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT55 / 55
SAID100% sure
MODEL TIME79.9 min
COSTlocal, no list price
TOKENS IN / OUT737 / 87,346

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

The end of its reply

Looking at this puzzle, I'll work through it systematically using constraint analysis.

**Key deductions:**
- (7,6)=6 from box 8/row 7 intersection
- (7,8)=4 from box 9/col 8 intersection
- (4,7)=8 from unique candidate in row 4 ∩ col 7 ∩ box 6
- (5,7)=5 from unique candidate intersection
- (6,7)=9 from box 6 remaining
- (8,5)=2, (8,4)=9 from box 8/col constraints
- (7,7)=7 from col 7 intersection
- (7,3)=2 from col 3 intersection
- (3,3)=3, (2,3)=6 from col 3 pair
- Working through rows 4-6 and the top rows using elimination and unique candidates

<grid>
874269315
526731489
193548267
265493871
749182536
318675924
952316748
481927653
637854192
</grid>
<confidence>100</confidence>

Grid tricky-4 of set v1, 26 givens. Puzzle as one line: 8.4...3.....7...8..9.........549..7...9..2.....86...249..31.........7.5.6.7..4.92