Top Nine Most Often Used Strategies for Solving Expert Sudoku Puzzles

Master these strategies and be an expert.
Please visit my channel and check out my other uploads such as "How to solve a Sudoku puzzle - A Tutorial", or "Next Nine Sudoku Strategies Beyond The Top Nine Most Often Used" if you haven't done so.

[RFC]

You will find detailed explanations on many strategies if you visit my channel and check out my other uploads.

[meli]

The fact that I learned all of this strategies by myself just by playing sudoku makes me happy

[TheRealLaughingGravy]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is EXACTLY the kind of video I've been searching for. So many Sudoku videos are long-winded and poorly demonstrated tutorials about one strategy. What I wanted was a single video with short, straightforward and stylistically consistent examples of the most common strategies, and finally I found one. I've abandoned many puzzles I know I could have solved if only I'd come across this video earlier.

[giorgio]

1:16 naked single
1:34 hidden single
1:56 naked pair
2:11 pointing pair (triple)
2:31 claiming pair (triple)
2:47 naked triple
3:05 x-wing
3:24 hidden pair
3:42 naked quad

[mueezadam]

A whole new world just opened up to me...
I like the systematized presentation, with each entry using the same template, terms, and sentence structure. It makes for cross-referencing two techniques within the same ‘genus’ _(like naked pairs and hidden pairs)_ much easier to follow!

[adelarscheidt]

That was awesome. I had been using strategies 1 to 5 without even knowing they had a name. Those last 4 will come in handy!

[ADRIAN-zhti]

My brain feels like a chicken arm lifting a 90 pounds dumbbell

[borboletta]

Thank you. This is a great summary of basic techniques for easy to medium puzzles and are the first ones to learn if you are just beginning Sudoku. These will help you solve all three New York Times Daily Sudoku puzzles, which are great puzzles to begin with. Mastering these first 9 techniques will also prepare you for more advanced techniques like Y-Wing, Skyscraper, Hidden Rectangle and Swordfish.

[lilly]

I didn’t know the name of the strategies I was using... Helpful video

[Tiamat_X]

I'm pretty proud of myself right now... I was stuck on a particularly difficult puzzle and came here thinking that there were many other strategies that I hadn't even considered. It turns out, however, that I'd managed to reason out 8 of the 9 strategies. All but the X-Wing, which was actually in the process of forming in my head (I had used it a couple of times in a truncated manner, but hadn't actually spent any time reasoning it out) when I watched this vid.

[paimon]

But how do u choose which candidate as indicator to eliminate other candidate under the same column if they have the same indicator as well?

[JoelHershberger]

Hate the robot voice, but the strategies are awesome!!

[rocky]

Hi I was want ing to solve hard puzzle ever since I can pass the medium for 2 years ago. The hard puzzle so hard to solve thanks for the video. Love it and very useful and it does work 😁😉

[MackNNations]

1:15 Naked Single
1:33 Hidden Single
1:55 Naked Pair
2:11 Pointing Pair (Triple)
2:30 Claiming Pair (Triple)
2:46 Naked Triple
3:04 X-Wing
3:23 Hidden Pair
3:41 Naked Quad

Thanks for the helpful strategies.

[ambroiseamand]

Nice! I've looking for this exact video for hours now. I wanted techniques simply explained and could only find masters doing weird plays. Thanks!

[kenney]

I am learning these strategies one at a time and am already solving medium Sudoku puzzles easily. I use cross hatching and ghost numbers to fill in as many cells as possible and then start penciling in numbers block by block and eliminate as many candidates as possible after each block

[susangoyer]

The best tutorial! Examples make it easy to understand, well done!

[jacobwansleeben]

First time watching a sudoku tutorial video. Been doing Sudoku for months now and I was able to think up all these techniques on my own. The only exception maybe being the X-wing technique (although I vaguely recall using it a handful of times in the past, but I would just forget about it). I found that one interesting and will activly remember to use it in future. Thanks!

[jessestefan]

Its interesting to watch this, because I know after 12 years of playing this game, many different techniques, but I came here to learn new ones on the fly... and realized I already use them but never knew what they were called -_-

[StarTropicsKing]

I’d like to try a naked triple sometime! 😏