I hope you are starting to feel more like an accomplished sudoku solver if you have been following along with this series on how to solve an easy sudoku puzzle. We are close to the end of this puzzle now, so this post will the be the end of this mini-series. I hope to bring [...]
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How to play sudoku – Conclusion
July 26th, 2009 No Comments
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How to play sudoku – Part 4
July 24th, 2009 No Comments
Welcome back to this short series showing how to solve sudoku puzzles from beginning to end.
At this point in the puzzle, we are starting to see several nearly complete houses and so we can either complete them or use them to “lock down” candidates that we can then eliminate from other boxes.
In the grid following [...]
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How to play sudoku – Part 3
July 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
Hopefully you found a series of fairly easy 2’s and 4’s from the puzzle as we left it in the previous post. You should have been able to complete them like this. Again I have tried to use darker colors to show later entries.
If you start with box 7 and see how the 2’s in [...]
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How to play sudoku – part 2
July 22nd, 2009 No Comments
How many of you have had a chance to look at the puzzle from yesterday? You will notice that I am trying to solve the grid without using any kind of pencilmarks. I think this is a valuable exercise for your logical thinking and you will only find that it gets even easier once you [...]
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How to play sudoku – from the beginning.
July 21st, 2009 No Comments
There isn’t much feedback in the poll yet for me to gauge if you think you are a sudoku expert or not. However, it is clear that there are many more people who find that just getting started with sudoku is their biggest problem. What I have decided to do, is to actually solve an [...]
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