Pünktchen Sudoku 2 (Rätselportal)

[Richard]

I missed it and found the same result by other reasons.

@Dandelo: I read your PN about the other solving route. I had noticed myself that it is possible to solve the puzzle by avoiding the/ my logical first step. But: that is a lot of hard work and it comes very close to ‘trial and error’. I never create puzzles where t&e is necessary. (Although it depends on the chosen definition of t&e; thinking a few steps ahead is no t&e in my opinion; working out six different possibilities of the chain comes much closer.)

Every puzzle that has a unique solution, can be solved by t&e. I cannot forbid puzzlers to use it. But as I said: in my puzzles it’s not necessary … ;-)

@Calavera: about the number of times it is solved; you are right on that!