In a puzzle of filling a grid, each row and column in the 9 × 9 grid, as well as each 3 × 3 sub-grid shown with heavy borders, must contain all the digits 1- 9.
| 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | |||||
| 2 | 7 | A | B | C | ||||
| 1 | 2 | D | 7 | 9 | ||||
| 2 | 8 | |||||||
| 9 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | |||||||
| 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | |||||
| 4 | 9 | |||||||
| 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
In the above partially filled grid, the number 3 appears in a square marked
1
D
2
C
3
B
4
A