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On average, a Sudoku puzzle will include

around 17 to 21 numbers to start with.
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Blake Winfield
Studied engineering and psychology · Author has
1.6K answers and 3.3M answer views · 3y

It's difficult to answer that one because it so

strongly depends on the difficulty of the puzzle.
As a rule, the puzzle maker must give enough
numbers so that there is only one solution to the
puzzle. One of my Sudoku books contains
puzzles of all difficulty levels. The easy puzzles
contain 35-45 given numbers, while the hardest
all contain about 25-26.
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BELIEVER
Lives in Warangal, Telangana, India
(2022–present) · Jan 19

On average, a Sudoku puzzle will have around 17

to 22 numbers already filled in as "givens" or
"clues". These givens are placed in a manner to
provide just enough information to be able to
solve the puzzle. The number of givens can vary
depending on the difficulty level of the puzzle and
the specific variation of Sudoku being played.
Some puzzles may have as few as 10 givens,
while others may have as many as 28. The givens
are usually placed in a way that requires the
solver to use various solving techniques to
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Hina Sharma
CS grad, IITR · 8y

Related How do they form sudoku puzzles?

I shall try to explain it in following few points :

1. Form a seed grid :

Consider a 9x9 empty grid which consists of nine
3x3 boxes. You need to first fill the grid such that
each number from 1 to 9 appears only once in
each column, row and box. One of the ways of
doing this is Backtracking approach.
2. Shuffle it to generate variations :
Shuffle the sudoku such that sudoku properties
are still satisfied. For example ,following are the
few basic shuffles
i. swap two rows within the 3x3 border

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sudoku puzzles finite?
Yes, it is finite. Let's forget the rules of Sudoku for
a minute, now, suppose i were to fill a 9x9 grid
with 10 symbols(1 to 9 and a blank), the total
possible configurations i could generate is
finite(exercise). If i were to disallow those
configurations that aren't allowed by the
prescriptions of Sudoku to be a "uniquely
solvable sudoku puzzle", this number can only
reduce, hence still finite. QED.
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That depends on the difficult, Easy Medium hard

Beginner.

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Anoop S Pillai
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RelatedWhat is the highest number used in

a Sudoku puzzle?
It depends on the size of the grid you want o use.
Normally an 9x9 grid is used for the game which
uses 1 to 9 as the entries.

You can use 0 to 8 or any other set of numbers. It

need not be in a sequence also. The only thing is
that the numbers should not repeat. In that way,
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I seem to remember that the minimum number of

givens necessary to ensure a unique solution
being one of the unsolved problems of
recreational maths.

It probably says something about that here:

link Sudoku - Wikipedia

Narayana Krishna
passion in numbers and solving puzzles · Author
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RelatedWhat is the total number of sudoku

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The answer to the question depends on the
definition of when similar solutions are considered
different.

For the consideration of all possible solutions, two

solutions are considered distinct if any of their
corresponding (81) cell values differ. Symmetry
relations between similar solutions are ignored.,
e.g. the rotations of a solution are considered
distinct. Symmetries play a significant role in the
enumeration strategy, but not in the count of all
possible solutions.

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combinations was of
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Related Is there a Sudoku puzzle where you

can start with 1 and find all 1's, then move to
2, and so forth until 9, so that you solve the
entire puzzle in one pass through the
numbers?
Sure. Take any filled Sudoku puzzle and keep all
the numbers except for one row, which you erase.
Or one column, or one 3 × 3 square.

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Originally Answered: What is the easiest way to solve the
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In truth, Sudoku puzzles are very well structured

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I am assuming you are trying to create a solvable
puzzle from a completely solved grid.

There is no specific method to eliminate numbers.

But generally we would like clue symmetry to be
maintained (more for aesthetics than anything
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For example, if you remove R1C1 you may like to

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1. R9C9 to maintain overall rotational

symmetry

2. R1C9 to keep vertical symmetry

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