Today’s sudoku solving technique came as a revelation to me when I first saw it described. I am aware that I may have been using it unconsciously but it is completely obvious when you see it revealed. So then, one small step to helping you play sudoku more easily. This is called Naked Pairs. In [...]
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Sudoku Techniques (Part 5) – Naked Pairs
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Intermediate · Naked Pairs · Sudoku Solving Techniques
Sudoku Techniques (Part 4) Box – Box interactions
June 22nd, 2009 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: box and line interactions · Easy · sudoku · Sudoku Solver · Sudoku Solving Techniques · suduko
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
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. [...]
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Sudoku Techniques (Part 1) – Naked Singles
June 16th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Easy · Naked Single · sudoku · Sudoku Solver · Sudoku Solving Techniques
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