Alan's Sudoku

My journey in Sudoku

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This is one of those puzzles that crops up once in a while that is a joy to tackle.

Ranked as “Hard” but really should be downgraded.

Fun to do and doesn’t slap you in the face or have you scratching your head too much.

I’ll post the answer in a few days.

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The wooden sudoku I ordered arrived a full three weeks early.

First go with it.

Managed to complete it but not without help. Tougher than you think when you can’t use candidates.

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Had some catching up to do with the local papers.

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Hi! What do your "blank block sudokus" mean? Are these puzzles you set yourself from scratch?

I download (free) puzzles from a site I found some time ago. The puzzles are generated at random. Every so often - quite frequently in fact - it throws out a puzzle containing a blank block of nine. It could occur anywhere in the puzzle.

Here’s the site…

https://sudoku-puzzles.net/sudoku-hard/

Having saved them as photos I can then use my Apple Pencil on my iPad and attempt to solve them. I don’t always solve them but I refuse to use fancy techniques. If I can’t solve it with my brain and pencil I move on to another puzzle.

Hope that helps.

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I’ve ordered this.

It’s an attempt to make my sudoku puzzles harder than they are. For one thing I wont be able to use candidates.

Plus it’s a different way of doing them.

We’ll see how it goes but it should be fun.

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Did a full set of blank block puzzles for my birthday!

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I’ve been doing some more of these blank block puzzles.

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This week’s local papers.

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