Monthly Archives: September 2014

Gordon’s Guide Basics

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Sudent

This post begins my review of an instruction manual, Peter Gordon’s Mensa® Guide to Solving Sudoku, and the associated puzzle collection the book contains, by Frank Longo. Basic solving is covered here, with advanced techniques and the puzzle collection review … Continue reading →

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X-treme Hidden and Naked Treasures

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Sudent

This post features hidden and naked subsets in two Sudoku X-treme review puzzles. All occur in line markings. The first continues from the previous post. The X-treme 210 line marking features two naked triples. The first one breaks up a … Continue reading →

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The Empathy of Nikoli Composers?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Sudent

Here we briefly consider Nikoli claims of a “human touch” quality in their puzzles, and continue demonstrating Sysudoku basic technique with X-treme Sudoku review puzzles. These are presented by Nikoli as their toughest. Is there a communication between Sudoku composer … Continue reading →

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Nikoli’s X-treme Sudoku

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Sudent

Here we begin a series of reviews that are a clinic on Sysdudoku basic solving skills. Each collection of the survey will be introduced, with several puzzles checkpointed by 2-D traces. This post introduces the Nikoli Publishing top toughy, the … Continue reading →

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Harvest from the Assistant Report

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Sudent

This post summarizes what led to the review of Bob Hanson’s web report on his Sudoku Assistant, and what was gained from it. There is also an instructive checkpoint on a T&E method endorsed in the report. I’ve been on … Continue reading →

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