Terminally Incoherent

How to Solve Sudoku Without Thinking

Ah, sudoku. The Japanise children’s puzzle that makes western people feel good about their inferior math skills.

Look mom, look dad! I’m doing a numbers puzzle. I must be sooo friken smart to do a number puzzle!

Sigh… What you are really doing is arriving at a logical solution via the process of elimination. There is nothing smart about it. If you change the numbers to colors or fruits you can even train a monkey to solve it for you. I know, because I trained one myself. It was a great monkey! But for some reason, I could not make it stop flinging poo at my neighbors. So at some point I had to release it into the wild. Apparently it later went to college, got an MBA and is now working in marketing. But I digress…

If you don’t believe me (about sudoku, not the monkey), read this guide that shows you how to solve the puzzle without thinking.

tags: sudoku, monkeys, puzzles

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5 Responses to “How to Solve Sudoku Without Thinking”

1. ZeWrestler Says:
   July 12th, 2006 at 8:26 am (317) [Quote]

   But if i no longer think to solve the puzzle, then what else will get wheels turning before my coffee kicks in.

   Posted using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Windows XP
2. Luke Says:
   July 12th, 2006 at 9:35 am (318) [Quote]

   Wait… You solve sudoku BEFORE coffe?

   I think you got it all backwards. Coffee gets your wheels turning, so that you can think and solve sudoku - not the other way around.

   Posted using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux
3. ZeWrestler Says:
   July 12th, 2006 at 9:49 am (319) [Quote]

   i said before the coffee kicks in. not before i drink the stuff.

   its an object oriented approach to getting the brain working. =P

   do {
   if (brain.power != full && coffee.cups.drank=5 && caffinee.hi==false)
   sudoku.puzzel = solve;
   coffee.cups.drank++;
   }while(brain.power!=full)

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4. Luke Says:
   July 12th, 2006 at 11:01 am (320) [Quote]

   For me this looks more like:

   while(Luke.isAwake() && !Luke.brain.isWorking())
{
if(!Luke.hasCoffeCup())
Luke.pickUp(kitchen.getCoffeCup());
Luke.getCoffeCup().setContents = kitchen.getHotCoffe();
Luke.drinkFromCup();
Luke.putDownCoffeCup();
}

   Posted using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux
5. mp3-players Says:
   October 25th, 2006 at 10:43 am (1411) [Quote]

   Hi, people! I have some interesting facts for you Anyone know that sudoku was created by an architect? The modern Sudoku was designed anonymously by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979. One more: I heard that my favorite game - the popular puzzle game of Sudoku is brought to the next generation of consoles. Go! Suduko 2 has evolved from the original game to provide a variety of new features and game modes.

   Thanks, Kevin

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