So you’ve decided to become a Sudoku Solver. How many times have you desperately tried to get the puzzle in front of you to come out right? How many times have you sat next to someone who is looking at exactly the same newspaper as you, but they are cruising through the same Sudoku which has you stumped?
Well, your days of sudoku frustration are coming to an end. I found myself in exactly the same position as you a while ago. Sudoku wasn’t a complete mystery to me, I could do some of the easier and moderately hard puzzles but I failed time and time again when it came to the harder grids. So I did some research – the same kind that you are doing now – and I discovered that the experts have a bunch of tools that they use to solve sudoku. It’s just like watching the local plumber do the impossible, just because he has one of those strange implements for getting behind baths that you never knew existed!
Well, now that I know a bit more about the subject, I will be posting that knowledge up here for you all to pick up as well. Hopefully that won’t be too slow for those of you that are starting a little way down the road. What it should mean is that we will all get the chance, eventually, to become the sudoku solver we hoped to be in the first place.
If you are ready to start learning already (and can’t wait for me to get going) I found a nice video based product which covers all the bases. I’ll do a review in a later post but you should check out “Sudoku Solving Techniques” – who knows, you may never come back and if you do, you can add to the knowledge on this site 🙂