This course in sudoku is the best there is. The swami method may seem hard to grasp and he may seem too serious or strict, but investing a bit of time here can make sudoku a lot easier and more fun to do. Well done 👍
@SudokuSwami
6 жыл бұрын
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@wordoku
5 жыл бұрын
Good video! I watched each lesson about strong and weak links and then AICs and now I think I understand them pretty good. Thanks! Moving on to video #5!
@SudokuSwami
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Harold. Glad to hear it!
@samiralsamir547
5 жыл бұрын
Thank youuuu it is getting easier by the third time I am watching the videos
@remyrat8961
4 жыл бұрын
The examples you showed in lesson 4-A part 1 & 2 are crystal clear now. Mission accomlished! 👍
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Good luck. :-))
@alanmac139
4 жыл бұрын
Great videos man!
@gianfrancovanni8020
6 жыл бұрын
great! A pleasure for the brain. Thanks!
@oumaroudia
6 жыл бұрын
I wish you were my accounting teacher in college!
@SudokuSwami
6 жыл бұрын
Ha-ha. And why is that?
@oumaroudia
6 жыл бұрын
Crystal clear explanations, no stone left unturned, a great deal of patience and a "one-stop shop". To understand Accounting I had to virtually go through all the accounting books in the library;)!
@michaelandis1004
5 жыл бұрын
It would be good to know how you are choosing your starting points and if you see something in the puzzle that gives a tell of why you are making those decisions.
@SudokuSwami
5 жыл бұрын
This issue is addressed in many of the later Videos in the Complete Course. Be patient, my friend. You can't expect to learn everything there is to know, in one Lesson. :-)) Good luck.
@user-tr9ci8lh8o
Жыл бұрын
Hi, great videos. Can you tell me if there a link to the grid you use, it would be so helpful when practicing these techniques. I'm usually pencil and paper which is a little messy.
@Mike-jd
8 күн бұрын
The only issue I have with this video is that you go right to the correct AIC bc you know it. I would rather see your mental process on finding it so I may emulate the process.
@waynefollett
5 жыл бұрын
In Tutorial 4-A part 2 Example with the 7 th house with 1and 6 and 1 and 6, swami is showing us how to start looking for a good beginning point and ending point. ie look for a house that solving it easily would help with the whole puzzle
@SudokuSwami
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, Wayne. Good observation. :-))
@doc5962
Жыл бұрын
I had a question. In the very last example, you show a surrogate weak link to 9 in block 4. Cell r6c3 contains 3 numbers. I thought to be a surrogate weak link, the cell had to contain two candidates not three.
@SudokuSwami
Жыл бұрын
The Link is between the 9 in R1C3 and the 9 in R6C3. The other Candidates in Cell R6C3 are irrelevant.
@ACaffeineAddict
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the great video. Quick question. This technique is mostly useful for the "endgame", and also, on Sudoku applications (e.g. it would be ridiculous doing this in a newspaper...you want something that would pencil in the candidates for you unless you were a glutton for punishment). Why did you decide to show AIC so early on in your tutorials?
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
As explained in my Introductory Video, Tutorials 3 & 4 are meant as an introduction to the "logic" of links and chains, because these concepts are used in so many of the known solving techniques. The actual and individual "techniques using these concepts, are explained later on in the Course. Good luck.
@epsilom8
5 жыл бұрын
“Start digit can be eliminated from the end cell ...”. If there are only two candidates in the start cell, suppose you started with the incorrect one?
@SudokuSwami
5 жыл бұрын
If you construct your Chain correctly, alternating Links, and if you begin with a Strong Link, and end with a Strong Link, and all the rules are obeyed, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to start with an "incorrect" Candidate!
@epsilom8
5 жыл бұрын
Helped to review #3 - 4A2
@jerryobrien
4 жыл бұрын
You start by selecting a 9 for your chain. I ask myself, WHY?. I cannot get past the WHY! This happens throughout the videos I have watched.
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
This is a preliminary lesson about AIC's. It is a demonstration of the basic logic of these Chains, i.e., "why" they work, and "how" they work. Finding them is up to you, and will get easier with practice. This is Video #4 of about 45 Videos in this series. If you continue watching the Videos, in chronological order, you will see that I give numerous tips on what to look for, and how to construct AIC's by looking for the "signs" of their existence, and their characteristics. Please be patient. It is not possible to become an expert after watching one or two Videos. Good luck. :-)) SS
@jerryobrien
4 жыл бұрын
Sudoku Swami Thank you
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
No problem, buddy.
@adrianalauraregis655
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, Great videos!!!. Is there a possibility that the starting candidate does not exist in the end cell? or the end candidate does not exist in the first cell?. thks
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
You must be referring to an AIC Type II. And if so, the answer is, "Yes." It is possible that only one of the endpoint Candidates appears in the other Cell and the other endpoint Candidate does not. If that is the case, this configuration can also be interpreted as a Discontinuous Loop Type 3, with exactly the same result. It is also possible that NEITHER the start Candidate nor the End Candidate, appears in the other Cell, in which case, your Chain would be fruitless. Alas!
@leojf3828
4 жыл бұрын
I will struggle with figuring out "how do i choose a path?"
@SudokuSwami
4 жыл бұрын
You don't "choose" it.....you have to search for it.
@oumaroudia
6 жыл бұрын
Would you please remind me why you always start BLUE to YELLOW?
@SudokuSwami
6 жыл бұрын
First, I am partially color-blind. Blue and yellow happen to be two colors that I can actually SEE. I alternate them, because the inferences alternate, false-true-false-true, etc. It is just a way to show the alternating nature of the Chain. When I color a Chain, I do it the same way every time, so you will be able to understand more easily. If we start on a Strong Link, I use blue to yellow to denote that link. But don't forget, in an AIC you can start on either end. And by starting on the other end, those same colors would be reversed, but the end result, (i.e., the candidate eliminations), would be the same.
@oumaroudia
6 жыл бұрын
Understood, many thanks!
@cattycorner8
3 жыл бұрын
This is too fast for me.
@Alemiha
9 ай бұрын
Luckily you have the magic of replay, pause, speed control, etc...
@eugenetswong
4 ай бұрын
If you are watching with a desktop computer, type the question mark to see what keyboard shortcuts are available. You can do the same things on a small screen without the shortcuts. Let me know if you need help.
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