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Unique methods to generate sudoku puzzle

How many possible unique ways are there to generate a Sudoku Puzzle?? I can think of only two possible ways 1) Take a solved Sudoku puzzle and shuffle the rows and columns 2) Generate a random number and check if it violates any Sudoku constraints, repeat untill number does not violate any Sudoku constraint for every square(theoretically possible but normally it leads to deadlocking )

Are there any other ways?

Solution

  • Here is a 20-page PDF, titled "Sudoku Puzzles Generating: from Easy to Evil", that you'd probably find useful in your quest.

    To answer your question:

    Are there any other ways?

    Yes. Yes there are.