NYT Hard Sudoku Walkthrough | Jan 9, 2025

[@marilenew725]

This was sooo hard! I'm still learning to do sudoku's and this took me almost 2 hours lol. I didn't see the 1-6 pair in row 8 but once you mentioned it I could finish the puzzle. Great video!

[@Rangsk]

Keep at it and you'll naturally get faster!

[@vivim29]

I did this in 20:46, I think I do too much pencil marking but I am getting better at recognising the patterns and my average time is decreasing, thanks so much for your help on these.

[@altheaquinn7452]

8:43 for me today! If I'm remembering correctly, I found a pair in column 1 that broke the puzzle for me. But you're absolutely right this was a really fun solve.

[@MathewPlaysGames-e6s]

17:20 for me. What collapsed the puzzle for me wasn't that 1, but at that same point in the puzzle, I found a naked 2 on r2c3. That's what the key for me. It becomes a naked 2 about 10:23 of your video.

[@big_red01027]

13:56. Center stack was helpful.

[@G04Tzilla]

The 2,5,7,8 geometry in box 2 filled in column 6 to start the puzzle for me, I rarely spot these!

[@hectormendoza496]

8:49 for me. Not too bad. Very nice puzzle!

[@Sg190th]

I was so stuck. Had to rely on one of those advanced methods between boxes 1 and 3. There's only one unique solution so one of them had to be 8 and any cell that sees it can remove 8, which gave me nine in box 3.

[@dindotorres6156]

18:20

[@caseyestok1677]

11:12