sudoku

Sudoku is a 9x9 grid logic puzzle that requires players to fill each box in the grid with a number from 1-9 in a pattern that does not have duplication within the block, row or column. The puzzle begins with a partially filled grid and is available in a range of skill levels and variants. Variations include smaller or larger grid sizes or puzzles that require the number pattern to add up to a specified sum. Three dimensional and internet versions are also available.

The emergence of Sudoku on mobile products (iPod/iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile, etc.) has garnered 60 million downloads in more than 100 countries sustaining the popularity. A quick tag popularity search of Sudoku found consistent interest in this number based game with hundreds of Sudoku blogs promising new puzzles, history, tips and techniques for the game. A yearly World Sudoku Championship began in 2006 and has been conducted in various locations throughout the world with significant prize monies.

Howard Garns, an American architect is credited as the father of the modern version of this puzzle which it didn’t reach mass appeal until Nikoli; a Japanese company renamed it as Sudoku, meaning single digit and released their version in 1984.

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• Kindle / Android + Sudoku Works App + Win at Sudoku = Heaven!

  
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  Huge kudos to Gary Livacari for this excellent guest post on how to play the Win At Sudoku way using the popular Sudoku Works* Kindle/Android app: I’m a long-time Sudoku fan. I read Caro Eardley’s wonderful  Win at Sudoku and it transformed the way I play the game.  From that point on, Sudoku became much ...
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• Philatelic Word Sudoku (Godoku): PAQUEBOTS

  
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• #721: Samurai Shape Sudoku

  
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  Im back, focused and with a bit more energy, and happy to present a samurai sudoku variant to start off May. No givens, as you have come to expect from me. Only greater-than symbols, consecutive pair markers, and X marks for pairs that sum to 10.
  3 weeks ago

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