List of Solving Techniques

Submitted By: SudokuMan from Texas

Here is a pretty good list of 40+ solving techniques used by Sudoku Snake.  It's good if you're wanting to study up on some new strategies.

http://www.sudokusnake.com/techniques.php 

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Hi,

I looked at this site, and in the Beginner's section, there were two techniques which I have never heard of - Mutant Pointing and Mutant Claiming - and I can find no other references on the Web to these techniques.

My question is: both examples show 'irregular box shapes' - my More...
14/Sep/09 4:48 PM
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The boxes can be of any shape, from long squiggly snakes to just a few cells transferred here and there like the Sudoku Snake examples.

It's impossible for these techniques to exist in a regular arrangement, as a cell has to be in the same row AND column as parts of a box without actually More...
27/Oct/09 2:00 PM
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