What Are the Numbers in the First Column of This Sudoku-Like Puzzle?

[AntonVrba]

Open attached file and

Fill in numbers 1 to 9 such that no number repeats in any column or row.

What are the numbers in the first column - in sequence top down?

here is also a link numblock1.gif

 

[AntonVrba]

I have added a trainer

Fill in numbers 1 to 5 such that no number repeats in any column or row.

complete the number in the first row 3***1

here is the file trainer.gif

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I wrote a computer program to solve this:


6 1 2 5 4 3 7 # 8 9
1 2 3 4 # 5 9 6 7 8
2 4 5 9 1 7 3 8 # 6
3 5 6 2 7 8 # 1 9 4
4 7 # 8 9 1 6 3 2 5
7 8 9 # 2 6 4 5 1 3
5 # 7 3 8 9 1 4 6 2
9 6 8 7 3 # 5 2 4 1
8 9 1 6 5 4 2 7 3 #
# 3 4 1 6 2 8 9 5 7


The program quits when it finds a solution so I don't know if there are others. By coincidence, the program ran about 20 times faster than would be expected just because by fantastic luck, the first two guesses it made were correct. If I had moved vertically down the matrix instead of horizontally across, it would have run even faster as the first four guesses would have been correct.

 

[AntonVrba]

that was quick. !

I used an exel spread sheet to generate puzzle