Having been a Sudoku fan for a number of years I have never been faced with a Sudoku puzzle that I have not been able to solve through the use of logic and deduction – and, occasionally, a little bit of guess work. However this week my mother gave me a Sudoku challenge that she said was impossible to do. She and my stepfather had completed a Sudoku puzzle book and then attempted to do the puzzle on the front of the cover with no success. Faced with this challenge I was determined to give it a go.

Having worked out the possible number combinations for each cell I realised that there were so many permutations that I would have to spend several hours of more guess work with trial and error, rather than logic to work out the puzzle. As this didn’t sound like much fun I decided to save some time and get my pendulum out.

I have not always been completely confident of my use of the pendulum, as I do wonder sometimes whether my mind is influencing the outcome. This is because I often get the same answer that I am thinking of anyway – so then I wonder  whether that was my intuition giving me the answer without the pendulum, or whether I influenced the pendulum by my own conscious thoughts.

The pendulum reacts with the subconscious and higher conscious minds to give physical movements with the swing of the pendulum. So what I needed to know was whether by looking at a Sudoku puzzle my subconscious mind already knew the answers. I must admit I was rather sceptical that it would, but was willing to give it a go.  After all our advertisement says that “You will be amazed at what you can find out by using the radionic pendulum”.

So I pointed my finger at the cell I wanted to solve first, held in my mind the numbers that could possibly go in that cell and went through them one by one until the pendulum gave me an affirmative answer. I seemed to be getting some sort of response as the pendulum was swinging a yes or a no, but I was still very doubtful about how this would turn out. Often with a Sudoku puzzle it is not until the end that you realise that you have made a mistake, and then you have to unravel what you have done.

I must have used the pendulum ten to fifteen times to determine what number a cell would contain; this would then help to determine other cells by normal logic. I kept expecting to reach a dead end and to find that the pendulum had failed me. I was utterly amazed when I reached the end of the Sudoku and not a single mistake had been made.

I now have complete faith in my ability to use the pendulum and am amazed at the way that answers that can be hidden in our subconscious.

Tanya Solberg