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Killer Sudoku Solver Please report any bugs. Tested in IE and Firefox.
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Click to edit candidates or enter a solution:

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Quick help: Using this Solver

You can pick examples from the list above. Click on Take Step to step through the solution. Unknown squares are filled with 'candidates' - possible solutions.
Any cells that are reduced to one possible candidate are solved.

You can enter a new Killer puzzle using the new 'designer' - click on "Enter new Killer". Once you fill in the clues and set up the cages correctly it can be solved.

Unlike the other solvers you can only edit the main board when solving. The small board only displays the clues.
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Version 1.80
See Strategy Overview documentation

Coordinate system: Letter/Number rYcX

 
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Show Candidates
Check for Solved Squares   
Show Possibles  
1: Singles in Row/Col   
2: Singles in Box  
3: Naked Pairs/Triples  
4: Hidden Pairs/Triples 
5: Naked Quads 
6: Killer Combinations (easy)  
7: Innies and Outies  
8: Cage Splitting  
9: Pointing Pairs  
10: Box/Line Reduction  
Tough Strategies
11: Cage/Unit Overlap  
12: Killer Combinations (hard)  
13: Cage Compare  
14: X-Wing  
15: Simple Colouring  
16: Y-Wing  
17: Sword-Fish  
Diabolical Strategies
18: X-Cycles  
19: XY-Chain  
20: 3D Medusa  
21: Jelly-Fish  
22: XYZ Wing / WXYZ Wing  
23: Aligned Pair Exclusion  
Extreme Strategies
24: Grouped X-Cycles  
25: Finned X-Wing  
26: Finned Sword-Fish  
27: Altern. Inference Chains 
28: Sue-de-Coq  
29: Cell Forcing Chains  
30: Unit Forcing Chains  
31: Almost Locked Sets  
32: Death Blossom  
33: Pattern Overlay Method  
34: Quad Forcing Chains  
"Trial and Error"
35: Nishio 
36: Bowman Bingo 


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Welcome to this new Killer Solver

I have been solving and making Killer Sudoku puzzles since 2005 and although my Sudoku solver has been part of this site since those early days I have not attempted a public solver until now. The main reason I have shied away from attempting it was the complexity of the puzzle in terms of the user interface. However, I hope I have now come up with a satisfactory solution. The independent 'Designer' handles the entering of the clues and cages. Keeping this separate and being able to (loosely) validate the entry should allow puzzle solvers a fairly quick way of setting up the puzzle for solving. I hope you agree and I'd love to hear your feedback.



You should also be aware of the Killer Cage Convention.

New in version 1.75 (August 7th 2011)
Added some traps to stop incorrect killers entering the solver.
Added Cage Comparison to the killer strategies.

New in version 1.74 (June 21st 2011)
I sped up the "Take Step" process by skipping failed strategies and going straight to the first successful one. This applies to the basic strategies which are client-side. If you get "script taking too long" messages from your browser, let me know. It's a bit risky for slower machines and I'd like to find out if this works for everyone.
New in version 1.67 (January 24th 2011)
Added an Email button to ease transfering a Killer definition and loading it into the solver.

New: Version 1.02 (June 13th 2009)
Killer Sudoku Solver released

Still to do:
  1. Some kind of emailing and importing using only a single string. Unfortunately the information required to transport a Killer using a web address is a little too large. The puzzle requires the clues, the cages and the state of the board during play. So I haven't thought of an easy method to provide those features.
  2. I will be adding a Solution Count soon.
  3. Much of the Killer strategy text that is displayed in the result panel is a little too obscure. I will be making more friendly versions in the next upgrade.


Solver created on 30-May-2009.

This page was last modified on 19-April-2011.
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