The last technique we looked at can be extended slightly as candidates are exposed more clearly across the grid. In fact there are going to be times when we can’t directly find a new given in a box but we can limit the possibilities for our candidates so that they form a new “line” of [...]
Entries from June 22nd, 2009
Sudoku Techniques (Part 4) Box – Box interactions
June 22nd, 2009 4 Comments
Tags: box and line interactions · Easy · sudoku · Sudoku Solver · Sudoku Solving Techniques · suduko
Sudoku Solving Techniques review
June 20th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: review · sudoku · Sudoku Solving Techniques
Sudoku Techniques (Part 3) – Box and Line Interactions
June 19th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Easy · sudoku · Sudoku Solver · Sudoku Solving Techniques
Soduko, suduko, soduku and sodoko can’t we all just get along
June 18th, 2009 No Comments
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
June 17th, 2009 No Comments
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. [...]
Tags: Easy · hidden single · soduku · Sudoku Solver · Sudoku Solving Techniques
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