#sudoku hard

[limitlesslivingacademy]

Crack the Sudoku Code: Can You Solve the Ultimate Puzzle?

[ringosmistress]

[tternyna]

Solving silly little puzzles together

[altruistic-meme]

how do you sweep mines?

HI MILO I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO EXPLAIN!!! minesweeper is very fun to me and it gets shit on a lot bc people don't realize that it's actually pretty simple once you understand the way the game works ;;;

the only real trick to it is this: the number = how many mines are touching that space. if there is a 1, then that 1 is in contact with only 1 mine. no more, no less. if the number is 3 then that space is in contact with 3 mines. so on and so forth. that's it! that's the game! (keep in mind: this includes diagonals! every space CAN be touching 8 other spaces)

BUT i get that it can still be sort of hard to wrap your head around, SO let's do a little bit of a break down of a level of minesweeper that i completed :)

so you've opened minesweeper and tapped the screen. the layout you get is as seen above; great, but what now?

my first step is always this: find the 1s on the corners. i find that the corners are the easiest place to start because they're the most obvious location that you will find mines. if there is a 1 sticking off of a corner, then that corner will ALWAYS be a mine.

as you can see, every one of the untapped spaces circled has at least one 1 touching it and the 1 is touching only that untapped space. this means that the untapped space is a mine, because there are no other untapped spaces that the 1s on the corners are touching. so, we switch to our flags and we mark these spots. this is our starting point and we will build everything else off of the certainty that these seven flags are 100% mines.

next, we want to rule out any other mines we might be able to before we start clearing the board. how? here's an explanation for how i found two of them:

the 1 i've circled is touching two untapped spaces, and one of those we've already used the corner trick to determine has a mine on it. this means that the second space cannot have a mine, because the 1 can only be touching one mine. that space is clear.

here, the 2 above the 1 is touching three untapped spaces; the one mine we've already determined, the one clear space we've determined, and one additional space. based on the information we have, we know that the third space must have a mine.

finally, the next 2 is also only touching three untapped spaces; the space we know is clear, the space we've determined has a mine based on the previous 2, and the one above that. again, we can know that the third space has a mine because it is the only place the mine could be.

we do this to every area we can. i only found 3 during this game, but there will sometimes be more! next: you start clearing the spaces you know are safe.

as you can see, i got trigger happy and laid a few extra flags as i went, but i was following the same process:

if there is a corner, mark the mine.

if there is a 1 that is already touching a mine, clear out every other space the 1 is touching.

if you already know where the mines are on any others, clear out around those.

just keep following that process, marking mines as you go, and eventually-

:)

i think it definitely takes a little bit of practice, and a lot of trial and error, but once you get it down it gets much much easier!

if you have any questions i am always happy to help :33

[ashkazora]

Completing the hard nyt sudoku in 5 minutes just to flex on Akane Zero Escape

[sammienjoy]

I saw a YouTube video about digital gardening, which is essentially taking the time to take notes and reflect on the things you consume. Whenever I remember to do it I slow down so much. The other day it doubled the amount of time it took for me to watch a yt video because rather than just consuming I sat down and reflected on what I was watching. It’s honestly kinda fun too

I also basically stopped using TikTok and I literally do not miss it. Even though I am ways away from having a normal screen time (I have been chronically online since middle school and there are years of coping mechanisms to rework) I am making progress.

[daz4i]

you know how sometimes when a baby is crying and screaming you put a pacifier in its mouth and it immediately stops. I'm like that but with sudoku

[princetfae]

most puzzle solvers when the solution they try doesn't work:

sudoku solvers when the solution they try doesn't work:

[cherryinfrenzy]

Sudoku has me obsessed.

It’s so addicting

[softest-butch]

just had an out of body experience on the phone to my mum as she was telling me about the new bridget jones film and my dad in the background (deeply autistic man) suddenly starts listing all these facts about bridget jones no hesitation and im like DAD. WHY do you know so much about bridget jones and then i found out he was reading them from the times

[nocylipcowa]

unfortunately sudoku grind is eternal

[blyszczopies]

btw last night i had a dream that i had 3 rabbits that were very mean and were biting all the wires that kept spawning. typical dream stuff. you think you solved a problem but its gonna be a sisyphus work until you finally wake up

[seo-changbinnies]

alright i’ll listen to the album as i do my nightly phone routine

[trinity-trouble]

LOOK I HAD TO STOP DOING SUDOKUS BECAUSE I ENDED UP CREATING AND SOLVING THEM IN BED AND COULDN'T SLEEP

[afreauxheaux]

Why are they making the daily sudoku puzzles harder???? This is not very festive of them.

[vegancas]

i was literally so excited when i saw that post about the evil level on sudoku.com but every puzzle i've done I've finished in less than like 15 minutes 😭 it's not evil if i'm not getting stumped!!