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Category Archives: Solving tips

Instructions on how to solve Sudoku and other puzzles. Detailed solving tips and techniques for various kinds of puzzles, including Sudoku variants.

Diagonal Samurai Grid

You’ll need a blank grid for solving the Samurai X. Here it is: Diagonal Samurai Grid
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Blank Grids

Update October 4: I noticed that the samurai blank grid might have been a bit too big to print, so I uploaded a slightly smaller version. — I just figured that you might need some blank grids to print out so you could use them when you work on these puzzles. So here they are, […]
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The Rule of 45 of Killer Sudoku (innies and outies)

This tip is probably the most important solving technique of Killer Sudoku, one that will save you a lot of time. It does involve some math, but very simple one. Basically, the whole story is that you have to bear in mind that 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45. Very smart, huh? Well, maybe not so, but it’s […]
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Killer Sudoku solving tip 2.

Ok I know that not everybody is good with math so here is a little tool that you could use to figure out different combinations of digits that could go into a ‘cage’. First enter the cage sum displayed in Samunamupure and then enter the total number of cells in that cage. You will automatically […]
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Samunamupure solving tip 1.

The following list contains ALL possible cage sums that have only one solution for the corresponding number of cells in the cage. You may use this list to help you solve Samunamupure puzzles: doubles 3=1+24=1+316=7+917=8+9 triplets 6=1+2+37=1+2+423=6+8+924=7+8+9 quads 10=1+2+3+411=1+2+3+529=5+7+8+930=6+7+8+9 5 cells 15=1+2+3+4+516=1+2+3+4+634=4+6+7+8+935=5+6+7+8+9 6 cells 21=1+2+3+4+5+622=1+2+3+4+5+738=3+5+6+7+8+939=4+5+6+7+8+9 7 cells 28=1+2+3+4+5+6+729=1+2+3+4+5+6+841=2+4+5+6+7+8+942=3+4+5+6+7+8+9 8 cells 36=1+2+3+4+5+6+7+837=1+2+3+4+5+6+7+938=1+2+3+4+5+6+8+939=1+2+3+4+5+7+8+940=1+2+3+4+6+7+8+941=1+2+3+5+6+7+8+942=1+2+4+5+6+7+8+943=1+3+4+5+6+7+8+944=2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 More tips coming soon!
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