Posts Tagged ‘Puzzle Solving’


Weekly Puzzles 12th to 17th Nov. 2009 – Top 10

November 24th, 2009 | By Balasingam

Jakub Hrazdira is in the top spot for the 3rd week in a row. Congratulations. Chen cen has successfully defended his second spot. Welcome, Lim Fong who clinched the 3rd position. » Read more



Sudoku Puzzle Solving – A Beginner’s Guide

April 24th, 2009 | By Balasingam

SUDOKU Puzzle Solving – A Beginners’ Guide. This guide is for the absolute beginner who has difficulty in getting started with Sudoku Puzzles. In this Part One of the tutorial, we will take you through the simple steps of scanning to begin filling in as many cells as you can. Once you get the idea of how to solve the initial steps, you will be able to continue and solve the demo puzzle. We shall avoid all the buzz words used to explain various steps and go by pure logic based on the Sudoku Rule. This is possible for the Easy Puzzles.

Sudoku is a Numbers Puzzle played by millions of children and adults, world-wide, from below age 7 to above age 70. The History of Sudoku is posted elsewhere in the website under Articles.

The Classic Sudoku Puzzle, which is the most popular, has a 9 x 9 grid with nine rows, nine columns and nine 3 x 3 sub-grids, containing a total of 81 cells with about 25 to 35 given numbers. To solve the puzzle, the player is required to complete all the remaining blank cells based on one simple rule.

Rule: Complete all the blank cells in the 9 x 9 Grid so that each row, each column and each 3 x 3 box (sub-grid) contains all the digits 1 to 9 without repetition.

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