Excel Sudoku Solver How To Solve Sudoko

How to make a puzzle using the Generator with aid of the Solver.

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The interface is colourful and offers not only the working version of the puzzle, but the starting puzzle as well.

The Akron Beacon Journal just recently started publishing a daily Sudoku puzzle in our comic strip pages.

Wow Talk about a time waster I nearly became addicted to solving these puzzles.

In the newspaper each day, they may fill in 20-30 of the 81 numbers in the grid.

Each row, column, and 3x3 subgrid must contain each of the digits from 1 through 9 without any digits repeating.

The top left square can not contain 4 or 9 because these numbers already appear in the same row.

It can not contain a 4 because a 4 appears in the upperleft 3x3 subgrid.

Trying to solve the puzzle from the morning paper quickly consumes all of the time for breakfast and can make you late for work if you are not careful.

Mike writes, Just for fun a few days ago I decided to try and use Excel to solve Soduku puzzles.

I have not protected the VBA code so anyone who is interested can poke inside to see how it works.

I can now concentrate on writing the next Excel book instead of trying to solve these puzzles.

It would probably be cooler if I adapted the workbook to solve the puzzle but only reveal the one square that Im stuck on.

Sometimes, if I could just solve one square, the rest of the puzzle would start to fall into place.

Instead of giving you the solution, it makes quick work of a lot of the work involved in solving Sudoku.

The fact is that the digits from 1 through 9 add up to 45, so first Jobey figures out the total for each row, column, subgrid and compares this to 45.

He reports which numbers are missing in the row, the column, and each subgrid.

Clearly, the 2nd column in the 5th row must be a 9, since that is the only value left.

Excel Sudoku Solver How To Solve Sudoko

This one is cool because it lets you see how to solve Sudoko iteratively.

Jerrys workbook shows you which squares can be solved right now.

If you are new to Sudoku, this will help you to understand that solving Sudoku is a step by step process.

Once that information is known, new yellow squares show up in the upper right.

The one in yellow can only host a 3, meaning that the square with the possibility of a 3 or 8 must be an 8.

In these cases, the 3,8 square is highlighted in lighter yellow and when you click solve, an 8 will be sent to the grid.

The lower right grid shows you which of the light-yellow numbers will go to the grid.