SUDOKU strategies for beginners?

Here are a few tips for beginners. But let me say first that these can be hard to understand without seeing examples of the layouts involved. So all these techniques are explained more fully in my Hub:hubpages.Com/hub/How-not-to-work-sudokuIt's a big Hub, with lots of practice questions and examples of these techniques given below.

I'll also have a more succinct explanation of all of this, with a little different slant, available soon:hubpages. Com/hub/Sudoku-Sherlock-StyleThe tips:1) Scan systematically. I scan horizontally from top left, working across and down, then vertically, working down and across.

"Scan for what," you ask? See next point!2) First, scan for places where the horizontal and vertical lines from several different examples of the same digit--say, several "1"s--intersect in the same "subgrid." ("Subgrid" is my term for the larger boxes containing nine smaller boxes. ) If those lines "block out" all the small boxes but one, then you know it must have a "1" in it, and you write that down.

Then check to see if that lets you figure out a "1" somewhere else! I call this technique "cross-referencing. "3) The next technique is called "Shadow theory," but I'm going to skip it for the moment and go on to "Inventorying.

"To do this, you look at the numbers in one row, column or subgrid. Since these must contain all the digits, 1-9, you can list the missing ones. For example, if a row has digits 2-8 in it, you know the missing ones are 1 and 9.

That means that each of the two blank boxes must contain either 1 or 9.So you check to see if there's a 1 or 9 anywhere that blocks out either of those two boxes.4) Sometimes you can't tell just where a particular digit is within a subgrid, but you can place it within one row or column in the subgrid. Then it casts a "shadow," meaning that it can be used to block out that same row or column in aligned subgrids. This can be surprisingly effective.

Put all these techniques--cross-referencing, shadow theory, and inventorying--and you have all the tools you need to solve even difficult puzzles. Hope this helps!

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