Recommended this video to my 10-year old brother who is just learning sudoku. He watched the video and told me that it was very informative. I hope he will be motivated to take lesson #2
Hi! I'm the head mod at r/sudoku. Thanks for sharing your videos. I think that it was good to show the house in tedious detail to ensure that weaker newbies could join the community. I like you use of "block" instead of "square". It seems more intuitive.
Hi Eugene, thanks for all your nice comments and support. I'm very close to finishing a new Beginners Guide video based on some feedback. This one has a little more detail and a little more conceptual background to approaching solving the puzzles. I hope you will like it! I think I've been getting better at this over time. Some of the elements of the early ones I wish could be better. I have new mic which helps a lot. But after the beginners guide I want to return back to videos on advanced techniques like X-Chain, Bug+1, etc..
@@dxsudokuchannel, you're welcome. :) Yeah, I'd like to learn more about chains and strong and weak links. I have struggled with why they can't be used both ways and why they should be used at all. Your other videos touched on them, and it helped, but I still need more. Also, knowing the usefulness of false and true would be helpful. I definitely saw improvements. At the beginning, you never described the pattern to look for, or what the strategy is, but you seemed to do it later. By the way, it might have proved helpful to hear that a naked pair is merely the matching half of a hidden set. In a house of 9 cells, with a naked triple, there must be a hidden sextuple . I look forward to learning almost locked sets [or whatever they are called]. By the way, is it possible to use triples in chains, instead of just singles and pairs?
@@dxsudokuchannel, by the way, here are couple of requests for your guides and edits. 1) Give newbies a brief overview based on the number of common candidates. For example, and X-Wing and Sky Scraper will have only 1 common digit [e.g.: 24, 25, 26, 27], if I recall correctly, but a Forcing Chain [or whatever it is called] will have pairs [e.g.: 12-12-12-12]. This was confusing to me before seeing your videos. After all, an X-Wing could be made up entirely of 12 on each corner. 2) How many wings can a strategy have? We have W-Wing to Z-Wing. Any more? 3) Give us a brief overview of the most complex strategies that we can use without computers.
Hi Eugene, I just published a new video #40 Beginner's Guide. At the end I provide a list of puzzle solving techniques. The list is basically my order of doing videos next. Videos on the more complex chains are coming. But I do talk about the different types of links in the video on Turbo Fish and Remote Pair.
Recommended this video to my 10-year old brother who is just learning sudoku. He watched the video and told me that it was very informative. I hope he will be motivated to take lesson #2
Ask him to look at this one:
ruclips.net/video/6WnFkrUt_10/видео.html
It has more detail and more content for people just starting out.
Hi! I'm the head mod at r/sudoku. Thanks for sharing your videos.
I think that it was good to show the house in tedious detail to ensure that weaker newbies could join the community.
I like you use of "block" instead of "square". It seems more intuitive.
Hi Eugene, thanks for all your nice comments and support. I'm very close to finishing a new Beginners Guide video based on some feedback. This one has a little more detail and a little more conceptual background to approaching solving the puzzles. I hope you will like it! I think I've been getting better at this over time. Some of the elements of the early ones I wish could be better. I have new mic which helps a lot. But after the beginners guide I want to return back to videos on advanced techniques like X-Chain, Bug+1, etc..
@@dxsudokuchannel, you're welcome. :)
Yeah, I'd like to learn more about chains and strong and weak links. I have struggled with why they can't be used both ways and why they should be used at all. Your other videos touched on them, and it helped, but I still need more. Also, knowing the usefulness of false and true would be helpful.
I definitely saw improvements. At the beginning, you never described the pattern to look for, or what the strategy is, but you seemed to do it later.
By the way, it might have proved helpful to hear that a naked pair is merely the matching half of a hidden set. In a house of 9 cells, with a naked triple, there must be a hidden sextuple .
I look forward to learning almost locked sets [or whatever they are called].
By the way, is it possible to use triples in chains, instead of just singles and pairs?
@@dxsudokuchannel, by the way, here are couple of requests for your guides and edits.
1) Give newbies a brief overview based on the number of common candidates. For example, and X-Wing and Sky Scraper will have only 1 common digit [e.g.: 24, 25, 26, 27], if I recall correctly, but a Forcing Chain [or whatever it is called] will have pairs [e.g.: 12-12-12-12]. This was confusing to me before seeing your videos. After all, an X-Wing could be made up entirely of 12 on each corner.
2) How many wings can a strategy have? We have W-Wing to Z-Wing. Any more?
3) Give us a brief overview of the most complex strategies that we can use without computers.
Hi Eugene, I just published a new video #40 Beginner's Guide. At the end I provide a list of puzzle solving techniques. The list is basically my order of doing videos next. Videos on the more complex chains are coming. But I do talk about the different types of links in the video on Turbo Fish and Remote Pair.
@@eugenetswong Check out the new video #40. My hope is this is everything newbies need to get started.