[Lake Hylia]

Reinholdt sighs. He used to be able to solve these with unerring accuracy, but it's been so long since he's looked at one. All the same, he's got to give it a shot.

Well first thing that has to be done is get each set of numbers in order.

1 6 8
3 4 5
2 7 9

1 6 8
4 5 9
3 2 7

1 6 8
5 9 7
4 3 2

1 6 8
9 7 2
5 4 3

6 9 8
1 7 2
5 4 3

6 7 8
1 2 3
5 4 9

Hmm... close, but that 6 should be with the 5 and 4, not the 7 and 8. Well that looks easy to remedy.

6 7 8
5 1 2
4 9 3

There. Though it'd be better if they were in rows.

6 7 8
5 9 1
4 3 2

Reinholdt pauses. Hmmm... well he could just keep working them back into rows, but this looks too completed to waste time doing that. Maybe if he just worked towards the usual answer instead... Well, first thing to do is get the top numbers in place. Once the top three numbers are set into place, you're almost finished.

6 8 9
5 7 1
4 3 2

8 9 1
6 7 2
5 4 3

9 1 2
8 7 3
6 5 4

1 2 3
9 7 4
8 6 5

And the 7 and 8 don't even need awkward shuffling. That's better than Rein could have hoped for. Piece of cake now.

1 2 3
7 4 5
9 8 6

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Done! And he almost fell for the time consuming work them in backwards trap. It's reliable and solves it, but requires a lot of extra slides.