I had a go at solving sudokos, but I found the experience tedious, mechanical and far too easy to make a mistake.

In fact just the frustration inducing thing to tickle the first of the virtues of a programmer: "Laziness". I then wrote a solver in Python which was far more fun than solving sudokus by hand and has the advantage that I never need to solve one of the dratted puzzles again ;-)

I recommend it as an exercise for all programmers!

I didn't document that process, but I did for solving a different puzzle which you may enjoy if you need inspiration: https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/articles/snake-puzzle/