Weekly Assassin Killer Sudoku

Killer Sudoku is an interesting variant of Sudoku that has gained a lot of popularity lately. The combination of the logic of Sudoku with the arithmetic of the sums provides that extra level of difficulty that many advanced Sudoku players were waiting for.

SudoCue.net presents a weekly Killer Sudoku. In the best of our tradition, this killer is a true Assassin. Don't turn your back on it.

Assassin 45 for the week starting Friday April 6, 2007

Tough as it is, this Assassin has 2 terrifying variations, which will keep the group of advanced solvers on the forum busy this Easter weekend...

The vague line below is a code string that you can select, copy and paste in SumoCue. Other programs also support this format.

3x3::k:2304:3329:3842:3842:6916:4357:4357:2823:2824:2304:3329:3842:6916:6916:6916:4357:2823:2824:3602:3329:4372:4372:6916:2839:2839:2823:4122:3602:3602:4372:6430:4127:4384:2839:4122:4122:2852:2852:6430:6430:4127:4384:4384:1579:1579:3373:3373:4655:6430:4127:4384:3635:5684:5684:3373:5431:4655:4655:4410:3635:3635:3389:5684:2367:5431:2625:4410:4410:4410:5445:3389:2887:2367:5431:2625:2625:4410:5445:5445:3389:2887: