New York Times Sudoku Hard for May 11, 2024 Walkthrough

okay so this is New York Times sok hard for May 11 2024 this is my walk through let's get it going okay first thing first let's see if I can find any singles in here which I don't think I can uh so so let's oh I do find singles I didn't know that uh let's look at this box and see where I can place three uh three here blocks these two cells these three blocks these two cells and the three blocks here three blocks here so three comes in here I think that's about it so let's look at this differently uh let's look at this top part and look at this row uh it has one two six only three numbers and there's nothing in this box on this role the3 sales empty it's surrounded by three numbers here and it it's not it has not been used in this world yet so yeah it's that's complicated but uh in short 349 blocks these three cells so uh this row has only three cells left for three four and nine so that means that's a uh triple of 349 in these three cells and let's see so this can be 349 this can be three or nine because of this fall and this can be oh three and nine are blocking here so this can only be four and this will be three N double here and and that will make this these three cells to be five seven eight triple in town it will be one two six triple in here but it's not going to help immediately so I will just leave it empty just so you know and so now three and nine will occupy these two cells uh looking vertically here are seven blocking here and here's another seven blocking these two cells makes this cell seven and that means seven will be blocked here yeah doesn't seem to help yet now another thing I want to look at uh let's look at this row and uh see where I can fit one uh one here blocks this cell one here blocks this cell so on this row this is the only cell you can put one in and this will be seven and N double and N is here so this will be seven and this is nine now this nine makes me realize that there's a double in this box uh looking at this row five and nine blocks these two cells and five and nine are also in the same column here which blocks these two cells so these three cells cannot be cannot use neither five or nine leaving only two cells in this box available for five and nine so this is 59 double and that means this will be six seven8 triple uh well seven is here so seven will be either here or here which blocks here so seven will be here and here or here because of this seven uh but it's not going to work right away so just going to leave it like that for now uh instead I want keep looking at this box so six here doesn't do anything right away so let's look the other way six blocks here and uh here's another six which blocks this cell so six in this box can be placed only here or here and they on the same row so in either case it will block these other cells on this Row from being six uh so this cannot be six and these two will be occupied by five 5 or9 so that will leave only this cell uh for six on this box and which leaves seven and eight for these two cells and seven is here so this is eight makes this one seven let me list this and I oh I should have done this earlier but here's four blocking these two cells and this four blocks this cell so this is the only cell you can put uh four in in this box and this will be one two eight Triple Two here blocks here so two will be either here or here in town will block here so two will be here or here but uh I cannot do much about it yet so I we'll just leave it open for now okay let's move on uh what will be the next let's look at this uh column it's looking for one five and eight and let's look at this cell because one blocks here eight blocks here so five is the only number you can put in this cell and that will make 18 double in here and here's let's look at these two cells uh it's this column is looking for one and eight and eight is already here so this is one and this is eight right and this eight makes this cell one and this is eight which makes these two one and two double oh one two one two yeah I don't know how much it helps but doubles are always nice to have so let's continue uh let's look at this box now uh one here blocks these two cells one here blocks this cell one here blocks here so one comes in here one okay uh four six seven n seven will be here okay so now this box is looking for four six 7 n seven here blocks these two cells seven here blocks this cell so seven comes in here and now this is filled let's look at this column and see where I can fit seven okay this seven blocks this cell this seven blocks this cell this seven blocks this seven this seven blocks this cell so this is the only cell you can put seven into on this column and 5 five uh 59 59 one two so this means this is also one two double uh now this seven Place 39 39 means uh these two cells will have only five and eight and five is here so this is five and this will be eight this will be one 2 six one 2 six uh actually 2 six but U let's not do that yet so seven is almost looking good but not yet 469 let's see what's next uh one two four five okay so this column is looking for one two four five this five blocks here so that's why this only can be one two well and five weights here uh five blocks here this five blocks here so five comes in here so this five blocks these two cells in this box here's another five block these three cells so five comes in here and that means is eight blocks here so eight will be here or here oh I should go with this eight and look at eight look for eight in this box this eight blocks these three cells this eight blocks this cell this eight blocks this cell so eight comes in here so which blocks this cell this eight blocks this cell so eight comes in here and this eight blocks these two cells and this eight blocks this cell so eight comes in here next 369 don't think I can figure that out that one out yet so let's move on uh one two four now and that's not too promising but and this this one to double so particularly two two will be either here or here which means two cannot be here and here's another two blocking this cell so two comes in here two will be here or here here don't think I can do anything with that let's keep going with this box four here blocks this cell so this is four makes this six and this is six and seven oh seven is already placed so this is six and so this is seven which blocks these two cells this seven blocks these two cells so seven comes in here that's the loss of seven and this will be four and [Music] nine uh which I'm not sure which one is which yet right right and this is four and nine meaning these two will be two and six here six is already placed so this is two this is six and that means this these two will be four and nine four is here so this is four uh nine is the last [Music] number and let's see oh one two so two has been placed so this is one makes this two makes this one uh so this will be two and six six is here blocking this cell so this is six leaves this cell with two the last number on this column is four and the last number on this column is two and this two now blocks these two cells and this two blocks here so two comes in here and that's the last of two and then this these two cells will be one and three one is here so one comes here the last number of this box is three which blocks these two cells makes this three which makes this cell nine makes this cell three the last number here is nine last number here is six and last number here is four and this row is looking for five and six six is here so six comes here places five here which makes this nine this is five and this is four and this is nine okay here it is uh thank you for watching and uh have a good one

Channel: ChazK3 solving NYT Sudoku Hard

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Sat May 11 2024