Solving Sudoku Puzzles a beginner’s journey is the target of this week, you may be familiar with Sudoku puzzles and possibly have solved a few in your day or life. However, I admit that I have never solved any Sudoku puzzle. This post is our continuation of putting efforts to learn AI/ML & Data Science.

I have an assignment to solve a Sudoku puzzle as part of my MSc program, so my journey started, and I am journaling about it. Let’s learn together

According to the book ‘Artificial intelligence, a modern approach’ The popular Sudoku puzzle has introduced millions of people to constraint satisfaction problems, although they may not realize it. A Sudoku board consists of 81 squares, some of which are initially filled with digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle is to fill in all the remaining squares such that no digit appears twice in any row, column, or box. A row, column, or box is called a unit”

Sudoku Rules of Play:

1. It consists of 9 x 9 puzzle grids sub-divided into 3 x 3 blocks of 9 numbers.
2. Each number of any cell in the 9 x 9 puzzle can only be between 1 to 9
3. Each 3 x 3 block must have all the numbers between 1 to 9 in any cell and it can not repeat the numbers
4. Each row of the 9 x 9 puzzle must have all the numbers between 1 to 9, no number can repeat.
5. Each column to have the numbers between 1 to 9, no number can repeat

According to Sudoku Kingdom, the roles are below,

You’ll Learn:

The basics of Sudoku Puzzles

1. What is Sudoku puzzle?
2. What are the rules of play?
3. Techniques to be used in solving Sudoku

Resources:

• Sudoku – how to pronounce correctly, according to the Cambridge dictionary
• Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle by Peter Norvig
• MIT Open Course: Puzzle 8: You Won’t Want to Play Sudoku Again
• Sudoku Solver at Standford university

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