One Quick Trick To Solve Most NYT Hard Sudokus

[@SivenMs]

Oh the frustration of watching you not follow up on the 3 after placing the 8 in column 9! I love the way you explain what you are doing though.

[@Anione111]

Same here...I was literally going "three" "three" :)

[@gamergranny285]

Thank you for these fantastic lessons. You are teaching my eyes to see more clearly. These more difficult puzzles have been beyond me... now.. I am enjoying finishing more and more

[@rustysmith3565]

Another very good video explaining 'why you do this' or 'what this pair does to the row' etc. I could phone up for a clue but that wouldn't tell me how or why that particular number must go in this square. The reason i keep watching your vids is because you EXPLAIN. Thanks a lot mate.

[@stefanholbek2449]

12:05: Another example of the "shooting holes" technique. After the 1 and 6 pair is established at the top left box, there are only three numbers missing in the first row: 2,5 and 8. 2 and 5 "shoots" into the "hole" at 1st row, 7th column, where you can put an 8 as well as the 2 and 5 pair. Does this technique have a name amongst you guyz and galz? ;O)

[@RoderickEtheria]

Why do you ignore cleanup after you find a number? If you proceeded with cleanup after the 5s, you would have most of the grid filled out.

[@cyclotomic8967]

In the bottom-mid box from the beginning there is a partition into 3 subsets: (37)(48)(2569). The (37) is also solvable.

[@christopherhope5425]

Wow, it’s July 26, 2022 and I was looking for some tips for the New York Times hard puzzle. I went to go apply what I learned and THIS IS THE SAME PUZZLE AS TODAY! I didn’t know they recycled them what a crazy coincidence

[@Robplayswithdragons]

At 12:00 i saw the 3 on the right. It seems there was two ways to get to the end. Very nice.

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

I think the issue with this is that you are trying to show "patterns" or "tricks" for a collection of puzzles but only talking about one puzzle. Why not grab a few that share this same feature? The video would be less "here's how to solve this puzzle" and more "here's what the pattern looks like regardless of numbers."

[@mahkhyecheng5675]

Totally agree. It’s like How to solve this puzzle rather than, techniques to solve Soduko puzzles..

[@mahkhyecheng5675]

Maybe a better method would be to take certain patterns of soduko puzzles and teach techniques how to solve that patter. Don’t have to solve a complete puzzle. This cuts the time from 42 minutes to say 10 mins. Have many short short techniques to solve patterns in soduko. Just saying.

[@tru0067]

Something interesting is that at around 7:50 the 3's and 7's in the lower left two blocks don't cause a uniqueness issue (and thus force the 8 into col1 row4) because the 7 in the middle left block is a given number. This messed me up as when I copied down the puzzle I failed to distinguish the given numbers!

[@pureseasalt]

oh how far this channel has come

[@mike-williams]

The discussion about where to put the 9 in the lower middle block goes on for way longer than it needs to. The 9s in rows 3,4 and 8 directly show that a 9 must be centre of row 7 or 9. If a number is forced into a single row/column of a block then it is trivially true that the other rows/columns will not have that number.

[@bluestar2802]

Thank you with your techniques I can now solve hard level puzzles on NYT. I am struggling with the 'tough' level puzzle on sudoku.com.au. Could you please have a go at some of them. Thank you

[@w8stral]

The hardest soduko always come down to Insert one of two numbers and then solve through till proven right/wrong on your guess.

[@kitwarren2493]

Fantastic as always!

[@bobstein8406]

I've noticed different solving styles (application of strategy priorities) in different videos. I'm wondering if this is related to time of day, blood chemistry, sleep schedule, or something else.

[@wauttz]

I downloaded the Duncan's sudoku solver but curious if there is another program that uses the same click on an area of the square for 1-9 but also has highlighting of numbers you are looking for similar to some of the iPhone players. Ex. Will highlight ever cell that has a 3 candidate possibility. I saw one guy using a player that you can highlight each little candidate which makes it easier to work our AIC solutions.

[@sdrawkcab190]

What software are you using for the puzzles?

[@B3Band]

New York Times website

[@NMalteC]

Actually, you yourself drew my attention to this "trick" early last week or the week before. I've been using it ever since on just about every other puzzle, NYT and others.

[@LoyverseVietnam]

You are expert!

[@laash.lumberg342]

One quick trick 19 min video

[@notnotandrew]

And I'm still not sure what the trick is, other than "look at the way givens interact," which is rudimentary...

[@glennmelven3414]

@@notnotandrew At the very beginning he shows that the 38 can only go in C 1 and 9 in R4 . This comes into play later when placing the 4 in C1. It breaks open the whole puzzle.

[@aurumarma5711]

12:24 the mark of the beast.

[@swimfit57]

Great

[@Lyndalewinder]

good video but you should invest in a better microphone to improve the sound quality

[@mahkhyecheng5675]

This lesson is HOW TO SOLVE NYT soduko puzzles? How about puzzles from other sources?

[@croaky8155]

You allude to doing the puzzle in a logical pattern for once. Seeing as the whole idea of sudoku is logic based, why don’t you start with number one through to nine?

[@mahkhyecheng5675]

Just saying, most soduko lessons goes to half an hour to 40 mins long. You are teaching how to solve a particular puzzle. Just saying, it’s shorter and easier on the student if you teach techniques m how to solve a pattern. Most puzzles must conform a certain pattern because of the rules. How about short short lessons on techniques instead of long drawn out lesson that solves A WHOLE puzzle. 40 mins lesson is like going back to school classrooms. Gets me sleepy. Sorry.