📕Get my FREE Solving Guide that will help you solve over 80% of all Sudoku puzzles🧩to include NYT Hard👉👉www.buymeacoffee.com/timberlakeB/e/125822 Timestamps 0:00 Intro And Rules 00:46 It’s Solving Time 01:41 Puzzle Story 02:08 Question Of The Day 04:50 Locked Sudoku Triples 06:50 Solving Tip #1 07:43 More Sudoku Triples 11:16 Setting Up Advanced Strategy 13:55 Solving Tip #2 16:02 Neat Naked Triple Trick
29:00, not bad for a Hard sudoku at my usual leisurely pace. I spotted all the locked triples and conjugate 89s while I was Snyder marking, and made a mental note that they would give me restrictions. I spotted them before they'd really help. Once I got to where you used the remote pair, colouring from the 89s in block 1 proves R2C1 has to be an 8 (9 leaves no place for a 9 in block 4). That breezes through the rest of the puzzle. I guess the pattern is a remote pair, but I still do remote pairs by colouring rather than pattern recognition. Yes, I know that slows me down. Maybe I ought to watch the video so the Algorithm knows I watch them. ETA: The reasoning I used wasn't your naked pair or your skyscraper - I think I'd have to just call it a colouring strategy. But it got me there.
This was one of those instances where I misused the 'Strategies demonstrated in this video' list. I was so determined to find the naked triple before I found the remote pairs that I spent time filling in too many candidates to find the elusive triple. I already had triples filled in (blocks 3,6 and 7) but they were so obvious that I didn't think they were the ones referred to in the listing. So I finally gave up looking for a triple and filled in the obvious remote pair, and that breezed me through the rest of the puzzle. 30:58, smh.
The early part was fairly easy, in a section of the grid. Things got harder and I resorted to centermarking the grid and placing digits until I noticed the 89-cells along the edge that had been there forever. I probably would have solved the puzzle sooner had I noticed the 89s earlier, because they placed a 2 that had populated the entire center block. Nothing was left except unraveling the centermarks. 2:30 My original answer was a solid no to Sudokucon 2025. But the chance to revisit the Boston area, which I haven't seen in over two decades and where I attended graduate school, motivates a reconsideration. 7:10 It seems to me that one might want to fill the triples that complete blocks (also rows and columns) before returning to check the digits.
Took 12 minutes. I did my very first xy-wing those remote I saw 89's just traveling and the 289 in box 5 just sitting there at the crossroad 😂That right there just made me fight the puzzle.
@SmartHobbies no, my first time. However, I always play sudoku mentally everyday, without any kind of notes. I just visualize the candidates. So I have practiced a lot of sudoku
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro And Rules
00:46 It’s Solving Time
01:41 Puzzle Story
02:08 Question Of The Day
04:50 Locked Sudoku Triples
06:50 Solving Tip #1
07:43 More Sudoku Triples
11:16 Setting Up Advanced Strategy
13:55 Solving Tip #2
16:02 Neat Naked Triple Trick
06:19 with your help... sometimes I feel very stupid because this strategy was really easy and I couldn't see it Thanks for the solve! 🤗
Glad I was able to help. I bet you will get the next leg of Sudokupillar by yourself just fine 👍🏻
29:00, not bad for a Hard sudoku at my usual leisurely pace.
I spotted all the locked triples and conjugate 89s while I was Snyder marking, and made a mental note that they would give me restrictions. I spotted them before they'd really help. Once I got to where you used the remote pair, colouring from the 89s in block 1 proves R2C1 has to be an 8 (9 leaves no place for a 9 in block 4). That breezes through the rest of the puzzle. I guess the pattern is a remote pair, but I still do remote pairs by colouring rather than pattern recognition. Yes, I know that slows me down. Maybe I ought to watch the video so the Algorithm knows I watch them.
ETA: The reasoning I used wasn't your naked pair or your skyscraper - I think I'd have to just call it a colouring strategy. But it got me there.
Nice job Kevin. Many solvers like you prefer to use colouring over remote pairs, the logic works the same. Thank you for sharing your experience.
This was one of those instances where I misused the 'Strategies demonstrated in this video' list. I was so determined to find the naked triple before I found the remote pairs that I spent time filling in too many candidates to find the elusive triple. I already had triples filled in (blocks 3,6 and 7) but they were so obvious that I didn't think they were the ones referred to in the listing. So I finally gave up looking for a triple and filled in the obvious remote pair, and that breezed me through the rest of the puzzle. 30:58, smh.
Thanks for sharing, Brad. I am glad you figured out where the naked (locked) triples were and moved on to the remote pairs.
17 for me, nice puzzle clover and thank you smart hoppies!
Hobbies, sorry
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The early part was fairly easy, in a section of the grid. Things got harder and I resorted to centermarking the grid and placing digits until I noticed the 89-cells along the edge that had been there forever. I probably would have solved the puzzle sooner had I noticed the 89s earlier, because they placed a 2 that had populated the entire center block. Nothing was left except unraveling the centermarks.
2:30 My original answer was a solid no to Sudokucon 2025. But the chance to revisit the Boston area, which I haven't seen in over two decades and where I attended graduate school, motivates a reconsideration.
7:10 It seems to me that one might want to fill the triples that complete blocks (also rows and columns) before returning to check the digits.
Thanks for sharing John. The 89s really pop out if you mark them. I hope you do go to Sudokucon. It would be cool to meet you there.
“And with that, it’s solving time!”
The triples are becoming my new best friend. They are so powerful in restricting other cells
I agree!
Took 12 minutes. I did my very first xy-wing those remote I saw 89's just traveling and the 289 in box 5 just sitting there at the crossroad 😂That right there just made me fight the puzzle.
Thank you for sharing SG. The other puzzles in the Sudokupillar are more challenging but also more satisfying to solve.
Nice puzzle, saw the clue not the skyscraper, total time 17:54😇
Nice job with the solve, thank you for sharing.
How I did was 11:01. Nice two-digit kite.
Nice job Roderick. Thank you for sharing.
I took me 7 minutes, nice sudoku
Glad you liked it Sebastian. Nice job solving it so quickly. Have you solved any of Clover’s puzzles before?
@SmartHobbies no, my first time. However, I always play sudoku mentally everyday, without any kind of notes. I just visualize the candidates. So I have practiced a lot of sudoku
@ Awesome. 🙂
I resolved this with a skyscraper !
Nice job Paula. Glad you found that. What do you think about the idea of doing 5 interconnected puzzles with one video for each segment like this?
489 pairs link up so you end up with a hidden single 2 in row 6 column 6...
the funds to go
That is a legitimate concern. I can tell you that early bird tickets are still available as well reasonable hotel rates. I hope you can make it.