📕Get my FREE Solving Guide and solve over 80% of all Sudoku puzzles to include NYT Hard 👉 www.buymeacoffee.com/timberlakeB/e/125822 Time Stamp: 00:25 Intro 1:05 Definition of Candidate 2:02 Definition of Solution 2:25 Definition of Strategy 2:36 Beginner Strategy 1. Hidden Single 4:36 Beginner Strategy 2. Naked Single 6:19 Beginner Strategy 3. Naked Pair 7:57 Solving a Beginner Puzzle Step by Step
I decided to do something easy this time. Then I decided to challenge myself a little, and do this puzzle without pencilmarking. I managed it, although it took a while and I diverted onto a wrong path from which I had to backtrack.
I am happy to hear that you are trying puzzles if varying difficulty levels and trying some without marks. I practice on easy puzzles every week to improve my scanning. What got you to make an error and then have to backtrack?
@@SmartHobbies I can't remember the details now, unfortunately. All I know is that I prematurely placed a digit, or placed a digit when an alternative was still available.
Oef... the fact that the candidates are visible honestly feels like cheating. How do I identify naked singles and naked pairs without having candidates visible.
Thank you so much for your feedback and great question. I recommend you watch my video about all the ways you can solve a single cell where I explain how to solve cells without using any marks: ua-cam.com/video/MXHDUYp8v-A/v-deo.html. I also have several live solve videos , most recently the one featuring Vertix by Yoshi Baroshi, which I solve without marks. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much for watching. A naked pair occurs in a house (row, column, or block) when there are only the same 2 possibilities for 2 of the cells in that house. So you know those 2 possibilities have to be confined to those 2 cells, and we can eliminate them as possibilities for any of the other cells in that house. I hope that helps. Naked pairs pop up frequently in my solving videos. I recommend you watch some more of solving videos to get more familiar with the concept. Happy solving.
Thank you for the question. In the video I teach how to solve easy Sudoku by using 3 strategies: Hidden Single, Naked Single, and Naked Pair. Can you clarify your question a little by what you are looking for in regards to technique?
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Time Stamp:
00:25 Intro
1:05 Definition of Candidate
2:02 Definition of Solution
2:25 Definition of Strategy
2:36 Beginner Strategy 1. Hidden Single
4:36 Beginner Strategy 2. Naked Single
6:19 Beginner Strategy 3. Naked Pair
7:57 Solving a Beginner Puzzle Step by Step
downloaded sudoku this morning and started trying to learn to play. jus watched this and managed to solve my first medium puzzle
Congratulations! I am so glad to hear that. I hope you solve many more. 😄
I decided to do something easy this time. Then I decided to challenge myself a little, and do this puzzle without pencilmarking. I managed it, although it took a while and I diverted onto a wrong path from which I had to backtrack.
I am happy to hear that you are trying puzzles if varying difficulty levels and trying some without marks. I practice on easy puzzles every week to improve my scanning.
What got you to make an error and then have to backtrack?
@@SmartHobbies I can't remember the details now, unfortunately. All I know is that I prematurely placed a digit, or placed a digit when an alternative was still available.
Oef... the fact that the candidates are visible honestly feels like cheating. How do I identify naked singles and naked pairs without having candidates visible.
Thank you so much for your feedback and great question. I recommend you watch my video about all the ways you can solve a single cell where I explain how to solve cells without using any marks: ua-cam.com/video/MXHDUYp8v-A/v-deo.html. I also have several live solve videos , most recently the one featuring Vertix by Yoshi Baroshi, which I solve without marks. Hope that helps.
@@SmartHobbies thank you for the recommendation! I will most certainly check that out and leave a comment! I appreciate that you got back to me.
@@MissFunnyBunneh You are welcome. Glad I could help.
great video! :)
Thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed it.
Did not understood the naked pair
Thank you so much for watching. A naked pair occurs in a house (row, column, or block) when there are only the same 2 possibilities for 2 of the cells in that house. So you know those 2 possibilities have to be confined to those 2 cells, and we can eliminate them as possibilities for any of the other cells in that house. I hope that helps.
Naked pairs pop up frequently in my solving videos. I recommend you watch some more of solving videos to get more familiar with the concept. Happy solving.
@@SmartHobbies thank you for your reply
Sir what is the technique
Thank you for the question. In the video I teach how to solve easy Sudoku by using 3 strategies: Hidden Single, Naked Single, and Naked Pair. Can you clarify your question a little by what you are looking for in regards to technique?