{"id":43,"date":"2006-07-09T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/?p=43"},"modified":"2021-09-15T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:16:09","slug":"noblesse-oblige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Noblesse Oblige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <strong>Mike Barker<\/strong> has put my solving guide on top of his reference list in the sudoku player&#8217;s forum, I receive a lot of traffic from that reference. Thanks to <strong>Mike<\/strong> for this fine gesture.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00c2&nbsp;symmetry topic, minimal puzzles, known sudoku controversies and lots of explanation of the terminology. It almost reads like a book.<\/p>\n<p>I replaced all the images, using a white cell background in stead of the typical <strong>SudoCue<\/strong> beige. The pictures are now better integrated with the text.<\/p>\n<p>All the text on specific techniques has been rewritten and\u00c2&nbsp;expanded, giving several examples and clear pictures. The list of techniques now includes hidden subsets, X-Wing, Swordfish &amp; Jellyfish, and a very nice introduction to strong pairs and coloring. More will be added soon.<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, and I started BUG week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Mike Barker has put my solving guide on top of his reference list in the sudoku player&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudocuenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}