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In the J. Recreational Math. 24 (1992) 220-224, in the section "Problems and Conjectures", Problem 1983 is:

1983. A restricted Latin Square by Sidney Kravitz, Dover, New Jersey

A digit from 1 to 9 inclusive goes into each of the eighty-one squares in Figure 1. The same digit does not appear in any row, in any column, or in any 3x3 square. The twenty-three digits shown lead to a unique solution. Find that solution.

*Is it possible to place fewer than twenty-three digits into these eighty-one squares to lead to a unique solution?

Figure 1.

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