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 have mastered this and add pencilmarks too. I’m interested to hear your views on this, throw a comment if you feel strongly one way or the other.
Back to the sudoku puzzle then. I left the grid in a position where there were several more values that you could find by using the same sudoku technique I showed you in the last post.
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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 easy sudoku puzzle for the next few days, step-by-step. I hope that this will show you what happens for me, when I am trying to play sudoku. Please feel free to explore the sudoku technique pages as we look at this puzzle. They will help you to understand the process I am following.
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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 sudoku tips.
Well, never fear, although there are several “fish” techniques we will look at, they are all just names for more things that look a bit like the earlier X-Wing and XY-Wing.
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As I have been looking around in the course of learning how to play sudoku, I have found a lot of other sites on the internet that focus on many different aspects of sudoku and lots of sudoku techniques.
Of course, I’m hoping that my own peculiar style will have kept you entertained and that you will continue to read here but I think it is always good to have a different perspective on subjects as complex as sudoku.
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