Since Mike Barker has put my solving guide on top of his reference list in the sudoku player’s forum, I receive a lot of traffic from that reference. Thanks to Mike for this fine gesture.

I do not want let let all these new visitors down with a poor solving guide, so I started to rewrite it. The introduction is much longer now, with new topics covering sudoku history, an extended symmetry topic, minimal puzzles, known sudoku controversies and lots of explanation of the terminology. It almost reads like a book.

I replaced all the images, using a white cell background in stead of the typical SudoCue beige. The pictures are now better integrated with the text.

All the text on specific techniques has been rewritten and expanded, giving several examples and clear pictures. The list of techniques now includes hidden subsets, X-Wing, Swordfish & Jellyfish, and a very nice introduction to strong pairs and coloring. More will be added soon.

Ah yes, and I started BUG week.