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 19th 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.
