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51: Good Sudoku with Zach Gage

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles

Zach: We looked at all the techniques and we assigned them um sort of like a point value so like some techniques are worth 0.1 some are0.2 some are 0.7 and then we add up all the techniques that are in the puzzle and then add one to that which is where you get the difficulty multiplier. Zach: For impossible puzzles not only are the puzzles using the hardest technique but we also could say okay well it has to be at least an eight for those kinds of puzzles. He says he didn't realize how non-linear Sudoku was until I played this game. "It actually really reduces down to yep we know no matter the order that you fill

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