Sudoku Essentials Blog

The Sudoku Essentials Blog is my mini-journal about Sudoku. It...

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Coupled Pairs

While I use all the methods you give, one of my favorites (which I have not seen in print yet) is to use coupled pairs of numbers. The major drawback of

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How To Solve Sudoku Puzzles

Learn how to solve Sudoku puzzles and never be stumped again! There are over thirty techniques you need to know in order to solve all Sudoku puzzles from easy to fiendish. Here is how you ...

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My Favorite Sudoku Puzzle Books

The Sudoku craze spawns numerous Sudoku puzzle books. Read about the best Sudoku strategies. Solve progressively more difficult Sudoku puzzles. My book reviews can ...

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Programming Sudoku - Start Here!

Programming Sudoku is a challenge for computer programmers. Could a little advice help you in creating your next masterpiece?

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Sudoku Instructions - How To Solve Sudoku

Take Sudoku instructions and solve every Sudoku puzzle! Why struggle trying to solve Sudoku when a few Sudoku instructions will make it so much easier to solve every Sudoku puzzle.

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How To Solve Sudoku

Many people have asked me how to solve Sudoku X-Wing, which is a very hard Sudoku puzzle pattern to identify and solve. Here is a step by step explanation of how you get to the X-Wing pattern in our a

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Sudoku Directions

Many people have asked me for step-by-step Sudoku directions for solving XY-Wing example number 1. If you have been puzzled about how I solved this puzzle, read this article.

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Sudoku Rules

Sudoku Rules Are Simple. It's the solution that's the challenge. Here are the illustrated Sudoku puzzle rules.

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Sudoku Forums

Would you like to contribute a Sudoku related article for this website? Submit your article to my Sudoku forums and have them published online.

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Sudoku Snake

Generate, design and solve unlimited Sudokus with this very useful program. Sudoku Snake operates in two modes, design and solve. In design mode, begin

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