Suduko Solving Techniques

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There are a variety of techniques you can use to help you complete a suduko puzzles. The better you get at these techniques the easy the puzzles get, and before you know it you can solve puzzles in less than 10 minutes.

One vital technique is “scanning” where you work through the puzzles to look for or eliminate values. Another suduko solving technique is "cross hatching" which is a process of elimination that checks intersecting rows and columns for a given value so as to limit possible locations within the block.

A simple technique that can be very useful is “counting”. This is simply looking through the numbers in rows, columns or regions to see where numbers can or cannot be placed.