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Nancy Drew 23: Shadow at the Water's Edge Hints
How do I solve this monster Sudoku puzzle?
1 of 5: Slowly, and carefully, and with a whole boatload of cussing, actually. Read to the end of this hint for a screenshot of the finished puzzle.
2 of 5: This works exactly like a normal sudoku puzzle, except that there are five of them. I told you you'd need the practice in these things, didn't I?
3 of 5: Actually, it's not that much harder than the puzzles Rentaro has been giving you. It's just dreadfully intimidating because it's so HUGE. It also doesn't help that Nancy doesn't tell you when you get the individual sections right; she keeps quiet until you finish the entire thing right. And that means if you finish and she doesn't say anything, you have to go back over the entire board to find your mistake. This is when the cussing starts.
4 of 5: But this array does have one advantage over doing five separate puzzles, and that's that when you finish the middle puzzle, it gives you one complete square in the other puzzles. This gives you a significant advantage in finishing the side puzzles (assuming you get the middle one right, that is).
5 of 5: At any rate, here's the final solution to the monster puzzle:
