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In practice, assembling a representative group of a few solvers and having them solve your puzzles will give a reliable view of their relative difficulty. True always speaks truly, false always speaks falsely. Three gods, a, b, and c, are called, in some order, true, false, and random. By definition, a sudoku puzzle has one and only one solution. Here is the riddle, straight from the mathematicians mouth.
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