

#TRICKS TO SOLVE SUDOKU FASTER PDF PDF#
If you are interested in the concepts behind creation and grading, there is a PDF document here called Sudoku Creation and Grading. Many strategies can be further extended and we do not have a complete theory of all Sudoku puzzles. This strategy list is by no means complete. These are now included for the first time on this site. There are naturally special strategies for Jigsaw and Killers because of their differences. They are definitely worth presenting as a demonstration of people's ingenuity but you will only need to have recourse to them on the extreme puzzles. Do read the introductory articles Introducing Chains and Links and Weak and Strong Links.Įxotic strategies do overlap with chaining ones, but they have a peculiar flavour of their own and some wonderful, if obscure, logic. Thus, for example, Remote Pairs are a subset of XY-Chains that is, XY-Chains is a more general approach of which Remote Pairs are a specific instance. You will find, if you read through this group, that earlier strategies become part of a more general theory as the theme develops. This theme is all about bi-value (only two candidates left in the same cell) and bi-location (only two occurrences of a particular candidate left in the same unit) pairs and the incredible number of deductions one can make from them. With chaining strategies, there is definitely a theme going through them.
