Brainless Sudoku

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Puzzle people:

Is this for real? Can all Sudoku be solved - and solved relatively quickly - by this brute force method?

If so, I think that's pretty funny.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

That's basically the first step in solving a sudoku puzzle (or maybe the first two steps). I think most newspaper puzzles will be finished after that, but for any interesting puzzle you'll run into a dead end and have to get more creative. Or use the Sudoku Sledgehammer, if you can wrap your brain around it (I haven't been able to yet, at least not to the point of being able to use it).