Welcome to Scott's Sudoku & Crossword
Solver Page.


Really stumped?
This site will solve any "solvable" Sudoku puzzle, totally free.
I'm not selling anything here, just doing this for fun.
Either just one step or you can jump to the
fastest solution to your puzzle, the steps the program takes
are shown so you can print it out as a cheat sheet or whatever you
want, it's up to you!.

I've tested this with some very difficult puzzles and haven't
yet found one that it won't solve. If you have any trouble
with this just drop me a note, my email is scottp at sonic.net.
Enjoy!!
To use the example puzzle, press SOLVE
Or press CLEAR to enter your own puzzle to be solved

Enter puzzle to solve:


Press STEP to step or
SOLVE to solve the puzzle.

This solver first tries the following logical methods:
Single Item Search
Single Unit Search
-the following are often referred to as disjoint subsets:
-pair
-three values in three locations
-four values in four locations
-five values in five locations
X Wing
-"generalized" xwing
-remote pairs
-xy chains
Forcing Chains
Swordfish
Burma (and other Swordfish variations)
XY wing
XYZ wing
If none of these work, then it will resort to Trial and error or Nishio.
This looks for a location with a pair of candidates
and choose a single one of them as a guess. This will continue
until it has found a solution, determines the puzzle has no solution
or determines that there are multiple solutions to the puzzle.