I chose to bring my original Sudoku solver to the web in the form of a Javascript version. Self proclaimed titles sound way too arrogant for my taste, so I won’t say this is the world’s fastest Javascript Sudoku solver, but I would sure like to see anyone beat it! Continue Reading →

I spent some time considering how people solve Sudoku and it gave me a few ideas on how to improve my original Sudoku solver‘s performance. I hypothesized that finding naked pairs and lines would save more calculation than it would cost. Continue Reading →

I recently had to build an optimized Sudoku puzzle solver for a homework which turned into a contest between students. I was part of a team of three and we competed again six similar teams… And we won! Here, I will discuss the algorithm we used. Continue Reading →