#Longwood175

Title: #Longwood175

Rating: 2/5

The first alternate puzzle, and I'm posting it a day early to coincide with its posting as the Problem of the Month for April 2014.  It's a product puzzle, but with one repeated digit on a 7X7 grid.  You also might notice the attempt to create "LU" shapes in the puzzle.  The puzzle was created to honor Longwood University’s 175^th year (which puts its incorporation at, yes, 1839). 

The official rules:

• The digits 1, 7, 5, 1, 8, 3, and 9 appear in the above puzzle.  The digits 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 appear exactly once in each row and each column. The digit 1 appears exactly twice in each row and each column.
• Digits in each shaded region must multiply to the indicated product.   
• Squares with multiple colors contain a number that’s used in the product for adjacent regions of each of those colors.  
• Remember: numbers can repeat within a shaded region if that doesn't violate the first rule.