please empty your brain below

Please don't reveal the answer here,
and no blatant hints either,
but do tell us how you get on.


I always knew I could see the future! It's 808.

I just did this in less than a minute. I wasn't even trying, sorry DG.

Lennon's number 9 connection: John Lennon was born on 9 October 1940, his son Sean was also born 9 October, 1975. He wrote the songs #9 Dream (part of Lennon's ninth solo album Walls and Bridges which was released in the ninth month of 1974 and peaked at number 9 in the US charts) and with the Beatles - One After 909 and Revolution 9.

Easy peasy.

Even I managed

The first column made completion very easy.

Yes, very easy. Tim, there's only one possible combination for the first column, anyway. Locking it down just removes the unnecessary step for you to decide where to put each number.

Surely there must be at least six solutions. Lets assume that a solution is:

a b c
d e f
g h i

where a-i represent the appropriate solutions.

Then since the rows all add up to nine

d e f
a b c
g h i

is also a solution

In all the first row can have three solutions leaving two further possible choices for the second row and the third row is whats left.

I reckon there are two solutions.

I also reckon Pedantic of Purley has missed a constraint or two.

Woo hoo!! This is the first time I've ever managed to do one! :o

Erm, ah, yes, OK - there are still two solutions.
Maybe that's why everybody found it so easy.

I suppose it would have helped if I actually decided to do the problem rather that look at it in an abstract way. Then I could have seen that the left hand column is in fact fixed and what I wrote before was a load of rubbish (so nothing new there then I can almost hear you saying).

3 in Arial
3 in Times New Roman
3 in Helvetica
3 in Comic sans
3 in Verdana
3 in Courier
3 in Letter Gothic
3 in Bold Italic Arial
3 in Tahoma

Sorted.

oh hang on... didn't see the numbers at the bottom.

Bugger.











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