Re: can't sleep. pain. anyone else up?


"Diane" <dcham@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> janice, re: sudoku.
>
> i don't know that i've figured it out either. i keep thinking there's a
> trick i'm missing because i am soooooo slow at it. in general, you have
> to get 1-9 in each of the 9 squares as well as in each horizontal and
> vertical line without repeating any of the numbers within the squares
> or the lines. i just sit and stare at it until i can see a place for a
> number, then keep on working at it. online, i'm still struggling with
> the "easy" ones, trying to get my time down to the average time. i DID
> do one of the hard ones in my newspaper, but it took over an hour! i
> tell myself it's good for my fog brain.
>
> anyone know any tricks to sudoku-solving?
>
> diane
>

Just what you have said, and looking at each block and deciding what it
can't be based on the "3 rules" and then filling it in if I can eliminate
all but one number. I usually start with whatever number is already there
the most and trying to get that number in all nine squares, etc. Then
filling in the squares that have the most numbers or rows or lines. Then
start all over. They play with the dog. Then look at it again.

Part of the trick is remembering it really doesn't have anything at all to
do with math or numbers at all. It could be any nine symbols. And just
logic. ie "it can't be any of the numbers already in the square or row or
line, so what is left?

Jo


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