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Can a sudoku puzzle have more than one solution?

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Can a sudoku puzzle have more than one solution?

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When I read your question, my instant answer was No. However, I began to question whether I had jumped the gun, so to speak. Then I thought more about the logic of the game and realized my initial thought was correct. The puzzle is a game of trial and error. But first you need to remember that this is a puzzle and most puzzles only have one answer, one way to place a piece or in this case a number. I decided to obtain information that would back up my theory and make you feel more comfortable in my answer. Here is the answer that I got from the website listed below. “By now you will almost certainly have heard of Sudoku, and probably have seen it or even play it in the newspapers. The word Sudoku means “single number” in Japanese and is a puzzle whose objective is to place numbers in a grid so that each number appears only once in each row, column and subgrid. Every genuine Sudoku puzzle can be solved by logic alone (not trial and error), and has only one solution. No mathematics are i

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