Simple Tips to Play Sudoku Games

Do you wait every morning for the newspaper, so that you can solve the sudoku puzzle? The number placement puzzle provides your brain the fuel to deal with rest of the day. I would say that solving sudoku can make you feel great, if you are able to complete the puzzle, but when you are stuck somewhere, then its very frustrating. Here, I have mentioned some tips that would prove helpful for you to solve sudoku puzzle easily.

Sudoku Rules

I would say there is only one rule to play this puzzle. Each row, each column, and each 3x3 sub-grid should contain the digits 1 to 9. No row, column or grid should have any number more than once. This rule is mentioned considering the regular 9x9 grid puzzle. For more such tips you can refer sudoku todays in page http://sudokutoday.com/

Strategy

There are basic three things that you need to keep in mind

• Scanning

This is a vital step that you need to perform. Keep scanning the puzzle for the missing number while solving the puzzle. When you start solving the puzzle, you would quickly glance through it and fill up the missing number after analyzing the number in the adjacent rows and columns. Once the puzzle starts to get a bit difficult to solve, then you stop scanning. You need to make sure you keep scanning the puzzle after every one or two new entries.

• Marking

When solving medium or hard level puzzle, there would be a point, where you would get stuck and no further scanning would be possible. Here, you need to analyze a bit and start marking the approx option. You can either use dots or subscript numbers to mark the missing numbers. When the print of the puzzle is large, it is advisable to use subscripts. It is difficult to use them in regular size print, hence one can use dots. A dot in the left hand side corner means 1 and a dot in the right hand side corner means 9.

• Analyzing

• In the elimination strategy, the candidate numbers are eliminated, which finally leads to only one choice. After every number is filled in the puzzle a scan must be done of the entire puzzle.

• The what-if strategy is based on guess. The 3x3 sub-grid that contains minimum numbers is selected and the numbers are filled based on the analysis of other sub-grids. During the process of solving the other girds, columns, and rows, if the number in this sub-grid is found to be double, then it needs to erased and logical number should be placed.

Follow the simple tips to play sudoku provided above and solve the puzzle quickly in the least possible time.

Sudoku Puzzle

Sudoku Puzzle is a logic based number placement puzzle. We all have tried this puzzle at one point in life or other. Its fun and its takes you to apply your brains to solve them. The whole logic behind a Sudoku is to fill a 9*9 grid with digits in such a manner that each row, column and each of the 3*3 sub grids which compose the grid, contain all the digits from 1 to 9.

The Sudoku number puzzle first appeared in news papers in the 19^th century but it wasn’t Sudoku as it contained double digit numbers and required arithmetic rather than logical to solve the puzzle. In July 1865, Le Siecl’s rival La France simplified the 9*9 magic square puzzle so that each row, column and the broken diagonals contained numbers 1 to 9. According to Will Shortz, the modern Sudoku was designed by 74 years old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, Howard Garns.

Sudoku meaning single number was made popular by a Japanese puzzle company Nikoli in 1986. At first it was named as “Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru” which means digits must be single. Later on the name was abbreviated to Sudoku by Maki Kaji. A completed Sudoku puzzle always looks like a type of Latin square. It became huge International hit in 1995. BBC launched SUDO-Q a game show, Sudoku software is also very popular on websites, PCs and mobile phones. Today there are various Sudoku based videogames available like, Train your brain in minutes a day and Brain Age.

Sudoku Puzzle has grown in popularity over the years and is considered a power game and is liked equally by old and the young.