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In this chapter, you learned about the lone ranger technique and how it is useful in helping you to solve or weaken some difficult Sudoku puzzles. Lone rangers are extremely useful and can always help to directly solve a Sudoku puzzle. However, if the techniques covered so far prove ineffective in solving your tough Sudoku puzzles, the next chapter will show you how you can solve the toughest Sudoku puzzles of them all.
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(2006). Intermediate Techniques. In: Programming Sudoku. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0138-0_4
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