Solving Sudoku, Revisited

Thanks to Scott Y’s comments in my article regarding a Sudoku Solver I wrote as part of an AI project, I decided to write a real solver that not only can solve any Sudoku puzzle, but can do it in just a few milliseconds.

Long story short: I represented Sudoku as an exact cover problem, then used Donald Knuth’s Algorithm X and Dancing Links implementation to solve that exact cover problem. Still here? Good, it’s time for me to explain a few things.

(Update October 2013: This project is available on GitHub!)