Right back at the beginning of developing this site, I promised to do a quick review of Sudoku Solving Techniques which you can see in the right hand margin. I think it’s appropriate to set up a reviews section to cover as many of the sudoku products that are out there and I will get…
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Sudoku Techniques (Part 3) – Box and Line Interactions
Before we get onto the next technique, I have an apology to make. I set you on an impossible task at the end of the last post, suggesting that there might be a hidden single in 2,7 which of course was complete nonsense! Oh well….my long road to being an “expert” sudoku solver just got…
Soduko, suduko, soduku and sodoko can’t we all just get along
Something a bit different today. If you are a budding sudoku solver there will be another sudoku technique along tomorrow. I just wanted to air a question today. What is it that makes people pronounce and spell sudoku in so many different ways? The problem with the word is that it uses syllable that all…
Sudoku Techniques (Part 2) – Hidden Singles
Today’s sudoku technique follows on closely from the previous one and still counts as an easy hint for a sudoku solver. Here, we are still looking for singles but in this case they have become “hidden singles”. All this means in real terms, is that the single has other candidates in the cell alongside it.
Sudoku Techniques (Part 1) – Naked Singles
Now that we have some ways to describe the layout of a sudoku grid, we can start to build up the techniques needed to solve sudoku puzzles. I intend to cover a specific method in each post but I will mark each one with a difficulty level so that you can jump in wherever you…