Advanced techniques

See the structure. Follow the logic.

Move beyond local patterns and learn to recognize relationships across candidates, cells, and houses.

Getting deeper

Advanced solving is about relationships.

Advanced Sudoku tehniques extend the same logic you have already learned across larger structures. All strategies are based on Sudoku's three simple rules. Instead of asking only what is forced in one cell or house, look for relationships between candidates across the grid.

Before exploring the technique families, learn the language of strong and weak links. It will appear throughout much of the Advanced curriculum.

Start here · Foundation

Strong & Weak Links

Learn the candidate relationships that power many advanced deductions.

Strong & Weak Links →