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I guess when I'm solving sudoku I lean on "runs" being all 9 so I know which of the 9 go into certain spots

I'm sure I'm not seeing something that lets me advance, but I'm just stuck with a lot of cells with two options.

it's also not clear why some "runs" just connect adjacent cells. I assumed adjacency (across zones) didn't matter because of that but the puzzle warned me when I broke that rule.



the 2-cell long runs are explained by this in the article "Runs terminate on cells with an odd number of sides"

runs are shown between all adjacent cells.


>That’s a confusing explanation for something I hope you intuitively understand from the image above.

heh... not quite intuitive to me I guess

my confusion (as best as I can tell through the fog of confusion) is that adjacent cells seem to not be allowed to have the same number... and also there are a bunch of obviously adjacent cells with lines connecting only those two cells (but also a lot of obviously adjacent cells with no lines connecting them.) Those lines connecting only two plainly adjacent cells are confusing me.


You don't need to understand the rules for how the generator placed the runs to solve, you can just look at the runs.


well, I need to understand something to make any progress... I'm obviously confused about what I'm confused about




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