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  Sudoku Hints - Solver and Online Puzzles
Sudoku puzzles also known as Su Doku or Number Place are easy to learn, but not necessarily easy to solve.
Sudoku will appeal to strategy game, brain teaser, crossword, solitaire or patience addicts, and is good exercise for your brain.
Sudoku is educational and a fun way to get a daily math or logic tutorial.
www.sudokuhints.com   (418 words)

  
 Sudoku Addict - Puzzles, Walkthroughs and Tips
Sudoku is the new number puzzle driving people around the country crazy.
Sudoku really only has one rule: Every row, column and 3x3 box has to have the numbers 1-9.
A properly formed Sudoku should only have one solution and be solvable by logic alone, that is you should never be made to guess to complete it.
www.sudokuaddict.com   (239 words)

  
  Howstuffworks "How Sudoku Works"
Sudoku has several levels of difficulty, from easy to very hard, based on how many numbers you get to start with and where those numbers are positioned.
Sudoku is now in 140 newspapers worldwide, and cell phone users can even download sudoku puzzles to their phones.
A sudoku grid is a type of Latin square, a mathematical object that consists of patterns of numbers (or symbols or letters) arranged in a square shape, with each number occurring only once in each row and each column of the overall square.
entertainment.howstuffworks.com /sudoku.htm/printable   (2869 words)

  
  Sudoku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The modern puzzle Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979.
The Sudoku puzzles printed in most UK newspapers are apparently computer-generated but employ symmetrical givens; The Guardian famously claimed that because they were hand-constructed, their puzzles would contain "imperceptible witticisms" that would be very unlikely in computer-generated Sudoku.
Sudoku became particularly prominent in newspapers soon after the 2005 general election leading some commentators to suggest that it was filling the gaps previously occupied by election coverage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudoku   (3378 words)

  
 Conceptis Sudoku
Sudoku are easy to learn yet highly addictive language-independent logic puzzles which have recently taken the whole world by storm.
Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.
Sudoku puzzles come in endless variations and range from very easy to extremely difficult taking anything from five minutes to several hours to solve.
www.conceptispuzzles.com /products/sudoku   (165 words)

  
 BrainBashers : Daily Sudoku
Sudoku is a simple game of logic where object is to complete the grid such that every row, every column, and every 3x3 block contains the digits from 1 to 9.
BrainBashers Daily Sudoku is available as an RSS feed and as part of the Daily Gubbins.
If you would like to freely use BrainBashers Sudoku for your newspaper, newsletter, magazine, website, etc, then please feel free to do so subject to the guidelines that can be found here.
www.brainbashers.com /sudoku.asp   (287 words)

  
 Sudoku Fun - Online Sudoku Puzzle Speed Challenge
Sudoku puzzles are addictive brain teasers that have been referred to as wordless crossword puzzles.
Pit your web sudoku puzzle solving skills against the rest of the world in our free sudoku speed challenge and when you have completed the latest puzzle see if you are the best at Sudoku on our leaderboard.
Sudoku fun welcomes suggestions for new features, be sure to let us know if you have any.
www.sudokufun.com   (269 words)

  
 Priyadi’s Place » Blog Archive » Sudoku   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sudoku adalah sebuah teka-teki yang terdiri dari kotak 9×9 yang dibagi menjadi 9 buah kotak 3×3.
Teka-teki Sudoku juga sudah menjadi bahan acara kuis televisi dan bahkan sudah dipertandingkan secara Internasional.
Gwa juga skrg, abis balik kerja or kuliah, suka tanding sudoku ama temen2 kostan.
priyadi.net /archives/2006/04/16/sudoku   (1094 words)

  
 Apple - Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Sudoku Widget
If you don’t know what Sudoku is yet, boy are you in for some sleepless nights.
Sudoku Widget generates random puzzles with four different levels of difficulty, has the option to show when you have entered an incorrect answer, allows for “pencil”; marks for temporary numbers, times your games so you can see how much better (or worse) you are getting, has high scores, allows for blank puzzles and more.
Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.
www.apple.com /downloads/dashboard/games/sudokuwidget.html   (204 words)

  
 Sudoku Solver by Andrew Stuart
My original intention was to prove to myself that a small number of simple strategies existed that could solve every sudoku.
Sudoku has enormous depth and while this solver has grown up enough to crack 99.9% of puzzles there are many weird and wonderful examples that defeat it.
For further Sudoku strategy information I recommend the forums on sudoku.org.uk and sudoku.com.
www.scanraid.com /sudoku.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Sudoku Online : Home of the Sudokulist
Same rules as a normal sudoku except you need to insert the numbers 1 to 6 in each row, column and box.
Michael was working on the "Logic of Sudoku" book last week - among many jobs - and it was his hope to publish this book in time for Christmas but it has proved a very complex document to set to print.
We have an extensive Solving Sudoku document in Adobe PDF format that is suitable for beginners.
www.sudoku.org.uk   (1122 words)

  
 Sudoku
Sudoku consists of a square grid to be filled in with symbols.
Sudoku Dragon helps with this as it immediately alerts you when a puzzle becomes unsolvable or you make an allocation that breaks the Sudoku rule.
It's of course possible to increase the sudoku grid size further to 25x25 and then 36x36 and so on, but 16x16 with a total of 256 squares to complete we feel this is quite challenging enough.
www.sudokudragon.com /sudoku.htm   (2125 words)

  
 java.net: Solving Sudokus in Java
Sudoku, also spelled Su Doku, is a logic-based placement puzzle.
Although first published in 1979, Sudoku initially became popular in Japan in 1986 and attained international popularity in 2005, both in newspapers (many newspapers publish a daily Sudoku puzzle) and on the Web.
Generating well-formed Sudokus: more precisely, generating givens that lead to a unique solution, which is the case of the Sudoku provided as an example at the beginning of this article.
today.java.net /pub/a/today/2005/11/29/solving-sudokus-in-java.html   (2088 words)

  
 American Scientist Online - Unwed Numbers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The name was soon shortened to Sudoku, which is usually translated as "single numbers." Nikoli secured a trademark on this term in Japan, and so later Japanese practitioners of sincere flattery have had to adopt other names.
Unfortunately, however, not all Sudoku can be solved by these rules alone; some of the puzzles seem to demand analytic methods that don't have a clear place in the hierarchy.
The order-2 Sudoku (with 4 rows, columns and blocks, and 16 cells in all) is no challenge as a puzzle, but it does serve as a useful test case for studying concepts and algorithms.
www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/48550?&print=yes   (3491 words)

  
 Math Games:Sudoku Variations
Sudoku X, Samaria Sudoku, and other sizes are the only other variants I could find outside of World Puzzle Championship competitions.
In Consecutive Sudoku (or 1-away Disallowed Number Place), all the places where orthogonally adjacent cells are consecutive numbers have been specially marked.
In Cubic Sudoku, the constraints on the cubic portion is that each region has digits from 1 through 8, each "layer" of the three dimensions on the cube also have distinct digits.
www.maa.org /editorial/mathgames/mathgames_09_05_05.html   (1673 words)

  
 Sudoku Slam - free web sudoku online, smart hints, undo, save puzzles, more
Sudoku Slam could also be called Sodoku Slam, or Sumo Sudoku Slam, or even Su-doku Slam.
You can use Sudoku Slam offline by downloading puzzles to your computer that you can continue to play once your browser loses internet access.
Sudoku Slam makes solving Sudokus on your computer more fun than solving them on a piece of paper.
www.sudokuslam.com   (658 words)

  
 Sudoku Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives
Sudoku Portable is the entertaining and addictive Sudoku puzzle game packaged as a portable app, so you can play on the go.
Sudoku Portable is an integral part of the PortableApps Suite.
Sudoku Portable is a an addictive puzzle game originally created in France over 100 years ago.
portableapps.com /apps/games/sudoku_portable   (279 words)

  
 Freeware SuDoku Solver
SuDoku puzzles (sometimes known as Su Doku or Number Place) are a puzzle in which the player must place the numbers 1-9 once in each horizontal and vertical row as well as each block (3x3 grid).
If SuDoku Solver is unsuccessful at solving the entire puzzle it will at produce the partially complete grid along with the possible values for each square that it has yet to solve, allowing you to use other methods not included in our algorithm maybe, or even guess!
SuDoku Solver checks to see if any of the squares have only one possible value.
www.gwerdy.com /products/sudoku_solver   (901 words)

  
 Braingle: Sudoku Logic Puzzle
Sudoku is a popular logic placement puzzle that has been gaining popularity lately.
This puzzle is also sometimes called a "Number Place" puzzle, which you can often find in local newspapers and magazines.
See what all the fuss is about with our interactive online Sudoku puzzles.
www.braingle.com /games/sudoku/index.php?play=1   (111 words)

  
 How To: How to solve sudoku puzzles - Lifehacker
Basically, you read along as a medium-strength sudoku puzzle is analyzed and solved; includes mouseover graphics so you can see what you should do next.
I created a C++ program to solve the puzzles, and if you have a DS the Sudoku that comes with Brain Age is really good.
If you like solving sudokus and you have a Palm, you'll have to try this one game.
www.lifehacker.com /software/top/how-to-solve-sudoku-puzzles-184855.php   (367 words)

  
 Essential Guide and Links to SuDoku
Also commonly spelled Su Doku and Sudoku, this is a number placement puzzle game that is similar to, but slightly different than, the Number Place puzzles found in Dell puzzle books.
Sudoku tips, strategies, information and help from Michael Mepham for London Daily Telegraph and Los Angeles Times solvers.
Sudoku Solver by Scanraid Ltd. Similar to SuDoku Assistant found The Daily Telegraph and LA Times sites, this site shows the step by step logic behind solving Sudoku square by square.
www.el.com /links/sudoku.asp   (1117 words)

  
 I'm addicted to a Japanese logic puzzle. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
There's an ongoing sudoku war in Great Britain right now, with several newspapers competing to be the hot sudoku spot.
Despite solving sudoku puzzles fairly nonstop for the last 36 hours, to the great detriment of my work, I still can't fully explain their appeal.
I guess the most basic difference is that sudoku is a puzzle of logic—not a puzzle of esoteric knowledge and literate playfulness.
www.slate.com /id/2119796   (1213 words)

  
 Sudoku - The official Sudoku Puzzle - Daily Sudoku NEW!!!
I didn't know how lucky I was that Sebastian, an English guy, sat in the seat next to me, we start to chat and in no time Sebastian revealed to me what Sudoku is all about.
Being a web designer, I have decided to promote daily Sudoku and present it to whom it may concern - once you start, you're in, and you can't quit.
I might add, As an ex solitaire addict, Sudoku puzzle made a change in the way I think, I swear; I am much more focused and alert.
www.daily-sudoku.com   (274 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games: Puzzles: Brain Teasers: Sudoku   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Minimum Sudoku - A project collecting Sudoku with the smallest number of givens that are still uniquely solvable.
Sudoku - Provides sudoku puzzles in easy, medium and hard levels with their solutions.
SuDokuMate - SuDokuMate is a SuDoku Helper (not a Solver) that replaces pencil and paper to aid solving.
dmoz.org /Games/Puzzles/Brain_Teasers/Sudoku   (1011 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Sudoku: Books: Michael Mepham   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sudoku is a hybrid: its name derives from Japanese (loosely translated it means 'number in an allotted place') and its form can be traced back to the magic squares invented in 18th century Switzerland.
Mepham (the author) seems to be the only man in the world who likes his Sudoku to need trial and error and it stinks.
As with most Sudoku books, this book presents the reader with puzzles and answers with a brief introduction to the world of Sudoku.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330441450   (781 words)

  
 Sudoku For Kids,  Sudoku puzzles for kids
Here is Activity Village's collection of printable Sudoku for kids, as well as Sudoku hints and tips.
Sudoku is an excellent way for kids to develop their logic skills while having fun, and children as young as 7 or 8 can begin to enjoy them.
There are 3 puzzles to a page and fun (fl and white) illustrations, making the booklets perfect for use both at home and in the classroom.
www.activityvillage.co.uk /sudoku_for_kids.htm   (316 words)

  
 Sudoku Puzzles - NZ Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sudoku Puzzle for 12 & 13 May, 2007 (Medium)
Sudoku Puzzle for 28 & 29 April, 2007 (Medium)
Sudoku Puzzle for 21 & 22 April, 2007 (Medium)
www.nzherald.co.nz /category/1500944/index.cfm?c_id=1500944   (137 words)

  
 Sudoku
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Sudoku is the highly addictive puzzle game with only one rule: place the numbers from 1 to 9 in each row, in each column and each 3x3 box.
We've got a stack of free Sudoku puzzles for you to print out and solve.
www.tiscali.co.uk /games/play/sudoku/index.html   (209 words)

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