Talk:Glossary of Sudoku

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I don't expect a lot of discussion here (initially) but I want to showcase this approach for general consideration.  Pointers to similar efforts would be appreciated.
-- LarryLACa 21:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary - Discussion Structure Rationale 

message: Can be addressed here.  At the moment I am community of 1 and will edit the list freely except as debated here. -- LarryLACa 21:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links for inclusion/deletion 

message: Completing the square is an algebraic technique with (AFAIK) no application to Sudoku.  However, Tom Sheldon in Sudoku Genius, , has a section on pp. xix-xx headed "Completing the Square", within a super-section "Expert Logic". He applies the term (perhaps intentionally punning on the algebraic term) to an example whose essentials i think i can capture:
:In a 9x9, consider three blocks in the same row (or column) of blocks.
# Two of the blocks feature a "pair" each.
# One number appears in both pairs.
# In each block, the cells making up its pair are in separate rows (or columns, respectively).
# The two rows (or columns) containing a block's pair are the same for both blocks.
# Therefore in the third block, the number that is common to the two pairs must lie in the row (or column) that the pairs do not lie in.
I confess to doing, within the WP articles, zero research on determining whether this technique is described by a different name. IMO, the existing Completing the square article deserves a ToP Dab  pointing to an appropriate Sudoku article, e.g.:
:This is about the algebra technique; for the Sudoku technique, see Yatta-yatta-yadda.
But IMO it's probably not worth an article of its own, and i don't know where coverage of the Sudoku sense of "completing the square" would belong, so i'm not prepared to place the red-lk in the ToP Dab, in anticipation of someone describing of the technique in a way that is useful to beginners. Suggestions?--Jerzy•t 04:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Completing the Square" 

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===Sync with Sudoku#Variations===
incorporate all terms/variants from main article --LarryLACa 20:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Do 

message: incorporate all terms/variants from main article --LarryLACa 20:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sync with [[Sudoku#Variations]]

message: Lots of terms, clarifications not here (yet) -- LarryLACa 20:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sync with [http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_09_05_05.html MAA Sudoku Variants]

message: More terms.. -- LarryLACa 22:51, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sync with [http://www.playr.co.uk/sudoku/dictionary.php Player.co.uk Dictionary]

message: In order for terms to be listed here, they have to be used overall by people who create and solve Sudoku puzzles. A bunch of random terms from some website or another don't rise to the level of being accepted terms and jargon unless they are found and used in publications and so forth. DreamGuy (talk) 19:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: We don't "sync with" any old website

message: Based on my understanding "Box line reduction strategy" and "Intersection removal" are the same strategy, they are listed separately under this article. --Voidvector (talk) 10:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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message: My understanding of the phenomenon is that there is a parity condition. The simplest actual case is for four pairs, and I believe you can't reason simply for five pairs. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:18, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remote Pairs