Are You Solving Sudoku Puzzles this Way? There’s a Better Approach – Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 - Video

PART 1

If you ever hope to eliminate mistakes while solving Sudoku, you need better techniques. If traditional solving techniques are cryptic and overwhelming, it’s time to throw them out and try something new.

In this video, you will learn why the “brute force” Sudoku solving method leads to more mistakes and drives people away from the game. Then, you will learn a simple, elegant pencil marking technique that will help you to make fast, accurate decisions.

PART 2

He starts by explaining why the brute force method is not only tedious, but, it may also cause you to make more mistakes. Then he teaches a simple, elegant pencil marking technique that will help you to make accurate decisions, quickly.

PART 3

With harder puzzles, the brute force method gets even less useful. As the Sudoku Professor says: “The bottom line is that there’s a lot of confusing data. And, when you use the brute force method on hard puzzles, you frequently end up with a lot of spaces where 6, 7, 8 or more spaces are possibilities. In other words, the technique doesn’t actually allow you to narrow down anything.”

After explaining why the brute force technique is so useless, the Sudoku Professor offers an alternative – column elimination.