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Product: Solve Extreme Sudoku: Strategies for Easy to Hard Puzzles
Description: After a short discussion of Sudoku and presentation of tools in Section 1, this book gives a review of standard techniques or strategies to solve these puzzles in Section 2. Section 3 will treat advanced solution techniques that will allow the most difficult puzzles to be solved. The primary focus of the book is on this section, and the reader should find these techniques easy to apply to achieve success.

Section 4 gives 14 exercises that will allow the reader to practice the techniques given in section 3. These exercises, with solutions, provide additional instructions on the application of section 3 techniques.

Section 5 gives 16 puzzles to solve, with answers. The first 4 puzzles are for warm up and are labeled Evil. The 12 puzzles that follow the Evil puzzles are very difficult and are labeled Extreme. This section could be considered a graduation exercise.
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Product: Sudoku Strategy Guide: Learn how to become an expert at Sudoku
Description: The Sudoku strategy guide is the ultimate guide for teaching you how to dominate this popular game! Inside you'll find all the tips and tricks needed to bring your game to an expert level. Learn about how to systematically win at each level from beginner to expert. Written for every player, you're sure to find information that will be useful for your game!
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Product: Sudoku for Everyone: Easy to Understand Sudoku Solving
Description: Sudoku for Everyone starts at the beginning and describes the basics and moves on to more powerful Sudoku solving strategies. The book includes detailed instructions and over 150 full-color graphics to explain Sudoku techniques. Step-by-step examples of Sudoku solving are provided.

The May 2020 update addresses layout issues and graphic quality issues raised by past reviewers. Try the "See Inside" option. if a PDF will work better for you, I will provide a PDF version upon request.

The Sudoku techniques covered in the book include: Single Possibilities, Row and Column Check and Exclusion, Box Check and Exclusion (Crosshatching), Pairs, Triples, Quads, Constraints, X-Wings, XY-Wings, Multiple Constraints (Two-String Kite, Remote Pairs, Half Pairs, Empty Rectangles), Chains, Loops, and Unique Rectangles. The complex patterns are well illustrated and the logic is explained.

Everything is here, presented for people who want to learn how to solve Sudoku puzzles from easy to extreme. You can quickly become an expert Sudoku solver. Absolutely no prior knowledge of Sudoku is required.

Some reviews:

"This is the best book I have ever read on how to solve Sudoku puzzles and I have read them all. I had reached a plateau and couldn’t seem to solve anything beyond just the medium newspaper puzzles. Now, after reading your book, I have been working hard and difficult puzzles. Your illustrations and strategy presentations are fantastic. Never do I attempt working on a puzzle without your book by my side. It has become my bible and I would be lost without it. I would definitely recommend this book to any student of Sudoku who wants to advance their knowledge of either basic or advanced Sudoku solving techniques."
- Glenn Daily

"The explanations I have read so far are very clear - much better than I have seen elsewhere - and the material seems well organized."
- Joy P. Olson

"There are a number of good books that teach the basics of Sudoku. But there are very few that take you past the elementary ideas - and the ones I've seen are hard to understand. Here's a book that goes from the simplest level to the most complex - and it's easy to understand because of the diagrams! I highly recommend it."
- Dick Westwood

"Your book gives clear and in-depth information about all the ins and outs of solving Sudoku's in a manner that is easy to understand. It gives me a lot of pleasure again to solve Sudoku puzzles with very difficult levels."
- Nardi Boekestijn

"…your explanation of basic strategies is more reader friendly than many others I have encountered. Thank you for writing this, it was much needed."
- R. Valdes

"I have been trying to come across a clear explanation for solving the daily Sudoku puzzle in the New York Times. After practicing the techniques given by your (book), I have been able to successfully solve the difficult level of the daily puzzle."
- Joseph Kosinski

"...your explanations (and diagrams) have been easier for me to follow…"
- Ken Brown

"I have sampled your book and I like the number of techniques it covers, you can't buy a book that covers the level of techniques that this book covers, this was the book that I was looking for."
- Dan Skillin

"The advantage of this book is that there are many diagrams which makes it easier to understand the methods."
- Surbier Henne
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Product: How to Solve Sudoku: A Step-by-Step Guide
Brand: Brand: Infinite Ideas
Used Book in Good Condition
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Product: The Ultimate in Sudoku Techniques! The Challenger's Preferred Sudoku Book
Brand: Brain Jogging Puzzles
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Product: How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles: A Player's Guide to Solving Easy and Difficult Puzzles
Brand: Cardoza
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Product: Solved: Tips and tricks on how to beat every Killer Sudoku puzzle
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Product: The Gift Book for Nerds | Sudoku Solving Techniques
Brand: Senor Sudoku
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Product: Sudoku Solving Techniques
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: Visualization Techniques for Solving Sudokus in 5 Minutes
Brand: Lulu.com
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Product: Sinister Sudoku: More Than 1,000 Fiendishly Tough Puzzles
Brand: Puzzlewright
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Product: Puzzlewright Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All
Brand: Puzzlewright
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Product: Mensa® Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All
Brand: Sterling
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Product: Solving Sudoku: Illustrated Strategies
Brand: Trustworthy Communications, LLC
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Product: The Sudoku Method - Volume 1 - Beginner to Advanced (Learn how to solve Sudoku puzzles)
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Product: Solving Sudoku | Easy Large Print Edition with Hundreds of Puzzles! (Plus Techniques to Boot!)
Brand: Puzzle Therapist
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