Once upon a time, way back before the vacation period began, I promised you a series on how to use Angus Johnson’s fantastic Simple Sudoku on the PC as a tool to help you learn how to play sudoku.
Well, it’s a bit rough round the edges, but here is the first fruit of that promise. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sudoku Solver'
Simple Sudoku Exposed!
October 12th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: how to play sudoku · Simple Sudoku · Sudoku Solver
Sudoku Techniques (Part 9) – The Swordfish
July 15th, 2009 No Comments
This is going to be another post with a title designed to confuse you if you are a sudoku solver I’m afraid. Yet again if you are learning how to play sudoku, you may think you have arrived in the wrong place and worry that we are going to deal with angling tips instead of [...]
Tags: Sudoku Solving Techniques · Swordfish · X Wing
Sudoku Techniques (Part 8) – The XY-Wing
July 4th, 2009 No Comments
As you make progress learning how to play sudoku, you will come across techniques that look similar to ones you have already learned but on your way to becoming an expert sudoku solver, the difference between them will become clearer as you practice.
That is the case with the XY-Wing. In shape, it looks a little [...]
Tags: Sudoku Solving Techniques · XY-Wing
Sudoku Techniques (part 7) – The X-Wing
July 1st, 2009 No Comments
How do you feel about your progress as a sudoku solver? By now, you should be picking up most puzzles without fear but there are plenty more sudoku tips to learn before we are finished with this subject. In theory, the subject for this post should be hidden triples and quads. I will confess to [...]
Tags: Sudoku Solving Techniques · X Wing
Sudoku Techniques (Part 6) – Naked Triples and Quads
June 27th, 2009 No Comments
I was very tempted to put Naked Triplets in the title for this post after seeing the traffic that “Naked Pairs” generated. I can’t imagine why there would have been such a boost….I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Naked Triples (and quads) is another sudoku technique that will help you clear out the [...]
Tags: Intermediate · naked triples · Sudoku Solving Techniques
