Why
Sudoku Lovers Are Raving About The Amazing New Possibility
Matrix Method
Why Sudoku Lovers Are Raving About
The Amazing New Possibility Matrix Method
An ordinary human being should expect at least a fragment
of constructive mental progress, from his daily work. Many
think they think, but few create anything new.
Just as you learn from your real-life experiences, Sudoku
puzzles can help you develop your ideas, too. It also teaches
you to look at things more logically. Solving at least
one Sudoku a day, will help sharpen your mind, as well
as, improve your creative and analytical abilities.
For instance, Sudoku trains the brain to look for the
absence of items, as well as their presence, and to spot
patterns. If you can apply the same principle to your shopping
list, it will reduce the mental stress and strain that
you might otherwise experience.
Sudoku puzzles are found everywhere. They have been categorized
into easy, medium and difficult. However, the simplest
method to solve these sudoku is not to be found in any
of the magazines or newspapers that publish a daily sudoku.
Do we employ a different method to solve each of these
sudokus? Or is there one method that can be applied to
solve every sudoku puzzles. The answer to this is an emphatic
yes. There is a definite and one of the most easily comprehensible
methods to solve these intriguing puzzles. Before we go
into the technicalities of that method, let us look into
the one that most of us follow.
The world over, sudokuholics are assiduously puzzling
out sudoku using the intuitive method. The intuitive method
is good enough if you are able to grasp the trick of solving
these puzzles. But, what if you are not able to?
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The conventional method is a trial-and-error method and
it need not always appeal to every puzzle lover. Some might
not even find it to be an easy method to solve sudoku.
Of course, it is not one of the easy methods and that is
the reason why I'm writing about another method. While
following the intuitive method, you might have come across
a particular puzzle that you believe cannot be solved.
But that may not mean that the puzzle cannot have a solution.
You could have missed out on the solution. And even if
it does have a solution, you may or may not arrive at one.
One puzzle at times can have multiple solutions.
There have been many puzzle lovers before who have tried
the conventional method and have given up on sudokus. But
they would still love to go ahead and solve if given the
correct and systematic way to solve these puzzles.
Solving a simple sudoku puzzle might at times become an
ordeal, if you follow the trial and error method. You might
just get hooked to the puzzle and may never be able to
determine a time frame within which you could solve. All
these reasons put together led to puzzle buffs pondering
over a definite and simple method to solve sudoku.
While the entire sudoku world was complacently solving
sudoku using the conventional method, Veit Elser was inspired
to create an algorithm that was bound to create waves in
the world of puzzles. He came up with one algorithm for
imaging the tiniest and most delicate of biological specimens.
Later, he used the same algorithm to solve Sudoku puzzles.
While Veit Elser came up with an algorithm, I was seriously
working on the simplest method to solve sudoku.
I call it the Possibility matrix method! If you want to
solve sudoku my way, you don't need any algorithm, just
a little bit of patience and concentration.
The Possibily Matrix method involves going through every
row and column. You should first scan through the first
row and the first column, before you decide on the probable
number that could be placed in the first cell.
This way, you can scan and then mark the most probable
numbers that could go into each empty cell.
Take a look at the explanation and worked example using
the Possibility Matrix method and other sudoku tips in
my e-book at http://www.howtosolveallsudokupuzzle.com.
With the possibility matrix method, the going never gets
tough; only the tough get going.
Harvey Intelm, (Compulsively Addicted Sudoku Player Beyond
ALL Hope And Reason)
by Harvey Intelm
