Sudoku Puzzle training
I'm a sudoku player and was finding that my ability was stretched too thin on the Thursday and Friday puzzles so I sought out something to help me learn the strategies a little bit online. Enter Sudoku wiki.
You have to pay close attention to what it changes, but the strategies of Naked pairs/Triplets and pointing pairs seems to have the most mileage for solving puzzles that you fell the need to guess. Prior to finding this tool I would review my work against the answers in the next days paper and found that the correct number for a space was often one I wasn't considering for that space, (ie it was a number that could have been in 4 or 5 spaces so I didn't write it down). In a sense I was finding that I was building myself a box that prevented me from ever getting the correct answer. If you have any interest, but struggle with the harder puzzles this is a pretty good (though spartan) tool for learning some different strategies.
Cool site and very useful...I sometimes attempt these puzzles on the train into london each morning
ReplyDeleteI can play this one but only in the easy phase. HAHA
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that takes sudoku really seriously too
ReplyDeletewait, what? naked triplets? where?
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