NYT Hard Sudoku Walkthrough | January 24, 2024

Solving today's The New York Times Hard Sudoku for January 24, 2024
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[@MysticMan150]

This puzzle completely ruined my streak of something like a week of 12-13 minutes. I agree about the two key moments, I found the 239 triple in column 3 relatively quickly, but it took me a lof of time to find the claiming 3's in box 2.

[@jonbrowne]

Exactly my problem! I had almost an entire grid of pencil marks and missed that 3 in row 1 which totally open d the rest of the puzzle!

[@blubikbeneenvis276]

Finding the 1246 quad in box 1 solved it for me. I was really proud of finding that one. I definitely did not see the claiming threes in box 2😅

[@jonbrowne]

Took me far too long to solve this morning! Took me 31:26 due to missing a very simple bit of logic! Thanks Rangsk

[@thomasstambaugh5181]

First kind comment! This was indeed a hard (and fun) one -- my time was 38 minutes. I must have been doing it at the same time as you because there were no solutions when I first opened the link. Spoiler follows ...
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This was indeed a harder one. In this case, my brute-force corner-marking carried the day. It revealed the triple in c3 and the 8 in r8c8. My solve collapsed after that, but with LOTS of pairs and triples. It was indeed a fun one. My time was 38 minutes.

[@Erixu]

this was definitely one of the better ones!

[@HotelPapa100]

That one almost defeated me. Spoilers below
Took me the longest time to spot the pointing threes in box one. (Equivalent to the claiming threes that you found in box 2)
It had almost a handcrafted feel to it, what with all the early finds in the centers of boxes.

[@johanwedin4669]

24 min for me, triple in row 9 column 4-6

[@jodexxy]

Solving this went very slow for me. Each time i found something ' clever' , i hoped the puzzle would be done.
The triple in column 3 was key for me . ....... 70 minutes.

[@sanferrera]

Same here! That 3 took me a lot of time. 62 minutes for the whole puzzle.

[@doriswlongAgoandfarAway]

Took a while - finally used autofil - but still was hard.

[@TheWaddler]

Pretty tricky today :(

[@RhiannonAgutter]

18:16 for me. Ouch.

[@madhurampandian5320]

Hard

[@JM_-ix7yh]

vile