Do This EVERY Time You Solve Sudoku

In Do This EVERY Time You Solve Sudoku by Smart Hobbies, I will show you 3 steps you can use every time you solve Sudoku. I show you how to apply these 3 steps by solving the Classic Sudoku Round 2 Puzzle 5 from the 2023 Sudoku Grand Prix. I show you how to play Sudoku better and how to solve Sudoku faster. I solve this puzzle logically and explain all the expert Sudoku tricks, Sudoku techniques, and Sudoku strategies as I apply them to the Sudoku game.
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I used the software program SudokuPad for this solving video. Puzzle link:

Thailand hosted Round 2 of 2023 Sudoku Grand Prix. Puzzle authors were:
Tana Wattanawaroon
Tawan Sunathvanichkul
Sinchai rungsangrattanakul

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Discord: Timberlake#1905

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
00:15 It’s Solving Time
00:19 Sudoku Solving Step #1
04:39 Question Of The Day
05:05 Sudoku Solving Step #2
10:55 Sudoku Solving Step #3

Strategies demonstrated in this video:

Hidden Single
Naked Single
Full House
Pointing Pair
Naked Pair
Hidden Pair
Claiming Pair
Naked Triple

Let me know what you think and how you did in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching.

Timberlake
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[SmartHobbies]

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
00:15 It’s Solving Time
00:19 Sudoku Solving Step #1
04:39 Question Of The Day
05:05 Sudoku Solving Step #2
10:55 Sudoku Solving Step #3

[georgesthibaudeau]

Fun puzzle. If you focus a bit earlier on the 24 pair along row 3, you can disambigiate the rest of row 3 without difficulty. Next you also see there is a 28 pair in row 3 (matching the 24 pair of row 3) Once you have done this, there is really nothing but basic sudoku remaining to finish the puzzle pronto.

[JohnRandomness]

This was hard. I got to thinking in terms of even and odd digits -- but I didn't color them. I just used them for eliminating digits from cells. Thinking in terms of even and odds made it easier to find restricted cells. After entering enough bi-value cells, I found a Y-wing that did something -- it removed a 9 and gave me a pointing pair in 9s, but it might still have been superfluous. I couldn't cornermark much, and I couldn't use 5+ houses. The only thing other than centermarking the grid was to search out restricted cells -- at least as far as I could tell. The puzzle finally cracked when I placed a 3 in R3C6.

QotD: Will I enter a Sudoku tournament in 2025? No.
6:50 The 39-pair: I only found the lower 39 of the two cells. That was one of the three Y-wing cells. If I'd found both 39 cells, the Y-wing would have placed the 3 in the upper cell, and possibly cracked the puzzle earlier. The Y-wing used 389. R6C2 had 89, R6C4 had 38, and R8C4 had 39. R8C2 with 259 had its 9 eliminated, and the pointing pair of 9s pointed at the upper 39 cell.
7:30 Of course, the 39-pair breaks the Y-wing.

[Sgth]

6:25 I had to make sure it was correct. I figured out that hidden 39 pair the same way you did.

[RoderickEtheria]

14:20 Took a bit to realize this was a coloring puzzle, should have been quicker with the bunched even and odd digits.

I'm not a tournament solver. My mind might work quickly, but my body just doesn't have the speed to keep pace. And there are plenty of faster solvers out there than myself.

[jefrey]

R3C6 is the tricky part, how do you spot them quickly because there are so many row, column, block operation.

[peterbaruxis]

Please explain your pretty much first comment, "if you solve one you can solve the other one right away." Not necessarily.