Geeky post of the week

Jonathan here tonight.
So, in case you don't know, I love games like kenken and sudoku. They're good for the brain. If you don't know what kenken is, check out kenken.com. When I discovered that site, all my free time was spent on it for a week.
Last weekend, I was watching Jimmy play sudoku on his iPhone. So I figured I need to get a free sudoku app on my phone. And I found a new strategy that seems to be speeding up my game!
I used to start by going through the numbers 1-9 and check where each number could be in each of the 9 big squares, then I'd maybe go row by row or column by column and see how much of each row/column I could fill.
Well that sometimes took a while.
So now, unless I can quickly spot where some of the digits go, I first look for the squares, rows or columns that are the most complete. Usually there are some that are only missing 2 or 3 digits, so I start with those. In the hardest setting, there may only be a few that have no less than four empty spots; it that case it doesn't go quite as quickly. But this certainly gets the game going faster than previously. Most games take no more than about 10 minutes.

If this is how you already played or if you have an even better tactic, I'm sorry this post has been of no use to you. At least it wasn't very long...