--- title: "Find the Mistake Sudoku #17 | Sudoku Flow" description: "Sudoku puzzle #17: a half-finished board with 58 digits, 32 of them filled in by a player, and one of those is wrong. Find it in five seconds, then check the answer." url: https://sudokuflow.com/puzzles/find-the-mistake-17/ language: en --- [Puzzles](https://sudokuflow.com/puzzles/) / Find the mistake #17 [Find the mistake](https://sudokuflow.com/find-the-mistake/) # Find the mistake #17 One digit on this board breaks the rules. The game is half finished: some digits were printed with the puzzle, the others were filled in by a player. Give yourself five seconds before the video shows it. ## Reading the board ## Where to start This board has 58 digits and 32 of them are blue, so those 32 are the only suspects. The most crowded line is row 4, with 9 digits: a good place to start. [How to find a mistake in Sudoku →](https://sudokuflow.com/guides/find-a-mistake/) ## Try it here Tap the digit you think is wrong. Sudoku board for Find the mistake #17: ```text . . . | 5 2* . | 7* . 3 . . . | 8* 3* 7 | 4 6 . 7 . . | 4* 6 . | 9* . . ---------+----------+--------- 1 4 9* | 6 7* 8 | 5* 3* 2* . 3 . | 9 1 4* | 6* 7* 8 6* 7* 8* | 2* 5* 3* | 1 4* 9* ---------+----------+--------- . . . | 7 8* . | 3* 5 6* 8 . . | 3 4* . | 2 1* 7 3* 5 7* | 1* 2 6* | 8 9 4* ``` Digits marked * were filled in by a player; the others were printed with the puzzle.
Show the answer It's the blue 2 in row 1, column 5. Column 5 already has a printed 2 (row 9, column 5). A printed digit can't be wrong, so the blue one is. The right digit for that cell is 9.
Video transcript **On screen:** One number is wrong. / How fast did you find it? **Voice:** One number is wrong! Three! Two! One! Right there! How fast did you find it?
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