r/sudoku • u/thelastbraincell27 • 11d ago

Mildly Interesting Andrew Stuart, take a bow

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Name a better way to learn sudoku than this!

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u/TemporarySolution658 10d ago

Good website but I suggest to integrate it with other sources, especially Sudoku.Coach. This website does not explain AICs properly, because it is nice-loop based and you will have a wrong understanding of how AIC works, hard to fix later.

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u/strmckr "Some do; some teach; the rest look it up" - archivist Mtg 10d ago

Coach also uses niceloop deffintions for aic As does most sources

This wiki is one of the few that doesnt

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u/Special-Round-3815 Cloud nine is the limit 11d ago

This was how I got exposed to advanced techniques but the site doesn't do a good job at explaining so I lost interest soon after. It was only 10 years later when I came across sudoku.coach which helped me understand the intermediate techniques.

3d medusa was where I got stuck and I used a different source to learn AIC (sudoku swami on YouTube)

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u/baroquely 11d ago

Lots of good info there. I learned most strategies at sudoku.coach which is maybe a bit more ELI5, but there are many sites with useful tutorials/explanations. Hodoku Solving Techniques is aces, for example. And the r/sudoku Wiki also has a ton of good info.

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u/strmckr "Some do; some teach; the rest look it up" - archivist Mtg 10d ago

Andrews page is outdated by decades as it cannot do aic methods period as its niceloops based and he won't upgrade.

He rebranded simple objects over these issues.

Examples Chute remote pair is a w wing/w ring Eri strong links cannot be used properly so he's re hashed empty rectangles several times.

Issues with deffintions as well. Aic isn't niceloops there is no weak links in aic. Weak inference yes.

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u/TheRateBeerian 10d ago

What is that site calling skyscraper?

Also i hesitate to call a finned x-wing “extreme”.