--- title: "Find the Mistake Sudoku #18 | Sudoku Flow" description: "Sudoku puzzle #18: a half-finished board with 58 digits, 22 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-18/ language: en --- [Puzzles](https://sudokuflow.com/puzzles/) / Find the mistake #18 [Find the mistake](https://sudokuflow.com/find-the-mistake/) # Find the mistake #18 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 22 of them are blue, so those 22 are the only suspects. The most crowded line is column 3, 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 #18: ```text 7* . 1 | . 6* . | 8* . 3* . 2 6 | . 8 3 | 7* 5* 1 8 . 3 | 5 7 1* | . 2* 6* ---------+----------+--------- 5 7* 9 | 8 5* 4* | 6* 3 2* 1* 6 8 | 3 . . | . 7 4 2 3* 4 | 6 . 7* | 1 . 8 ---------+----------+--------- 6 1 7* | . 4 . | 3 8* . . . 5 | 1 . 8* | 2 6 7* . 8 2* | 7 . 6 | . 1 . ``` Digits marked * were filled in by a player; the others were printed with the puzzle.
Show the answer It's the blue 5 in row 4, column 5. Row 4 already has a printed 5 (row 4, column 1). A printed digit can't be wrong, so the blue one is. The right digit for that cell is 1.
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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