Bringing you the best Sudoku tips
Have you been trying to figure out how to complete a Sudoku puzzle in the fastest possible time? Or spending much time surging the net for Sudoku help? Whether you are a Sudoku enthusiast or someone seeking to know more about Sudoku, you have come to the right place. Enjoy some of the Flickr photos to see how Sudoku has become so absorbing. There are also videos on Sudoku tutorials, advice and - believe it or not - Sudoku songs. I've included recommended articles to add to your knowledge. And there is a link to a website for free Sudoku puzzles at all levels. There is, of course, Eric T., a great Sudoku enthusiast out to show he has the ultimate Sudoku guide.What is Sudoku?
Let's hear from Wikipedia: "Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid." Free Sudoku puzles
If you're not familiar with Sudoku or need puzzles for practice, I recommend you the Web Sudoku wesbite. It provides puzzles in four categories: Easy, Medium, Hard, Evil. It comes with a "How am I doing?" interactive button. For the beginner, you can try the interactive Sudoku tutorials. History of Sudoku
For beginners, you may want to know the history of Sudoku. So I've created an abridged version here of the history of Sudoku as seen by well-known Sudoku enthusiast Eric T, the author of an ebook, The Ultimate Sudoku Guide.Here is the Sudoku history:
"Sudoku is said to have 18th century roots, but the trace is non-conclusive. One of the theories believed the puzzle was linked to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who first examined the Latin square, which in turn also has its root linked to an ancient Chinese puzzle, Lo Shu. Though the theory has not proved the invention has anything to do with Euler, it adds colours to the myth of Sudoku roots and development.
The link of Sudoku to Japan was traced to Japanese publisher Nikoli, who claims it brought the puzzle to Japan from the United States, which was then simply called Number Place.
The first puzzle was created by Howard Garnes, a freelance puzzle constructor, in 1979, and was first published in New York by the specialist puzzle publisher Dell Magazines in its magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games, under the title Number Place.
The puzzle was subsequently introduced in Japan by Nikoli in the paper Monthly Nikolist in April 1984 as "Suji wa dokushin ni kagiru", which can be translated as "the numbers must be single" or "the numbers must occur only once"...The puzzle was named by Kaji Maki, the president of Nikoli. At a later date, the name was abbreviated to Sudoku (... pronounced sue-do-koo; su = number, doku = single)...In 1986, Nikoli made some changes to the Sudoku rules and introduced two innovations to the Sudoku Puzzle and gain popularity rapidly in Japan. The number of givens was restricted to no more than 30 and puzzles became "symmetrical" (meaning the givens were distributed in rotationally symmetric cells). It is now published in mainstream Japanese periodicals, such as the Asahi Shimbun. Within Japan, Nikoli still holds the trademark for the name Sudoku; other publications in Japan use alternative names...
The immense surge in popularity of Sudoku in British newspapers and internationally has led to it being dubbed in the world media in 2005 variously as "the Rubik's cube of the 21st century" or the "fastest growing puzzle in the world"."
P/S Full version of this can be found in Eric T's The Ultimate Sudoku Guide website under History of Sudoku.
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Let's watch Sudoku videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million words. So let's watch some Sudoku videos ranging from tutorials to advice from the experts. Sudoku is so popular that many enthusiasts have turned it into songs as testified by some of the videos you are about to watch.
Blog Posts from Google
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- Did you solve it all by yourself or did you just put down the pen and the puzzle, and then just left? Why can't some people solve it? Its not that Sudoku is.
- Found Footage: Sudoku Grab goes Augmented Reality
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- Sudoku on the Internet | Fix Laptop Problems
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The Ultimate Sudoku Guide
"This #1 Ranking Sudoku Guide will give You all the Powerful Solving Techniques, Strategies and Insider Tips to Master the Game.You will Solve Sudoku Puzzles So Fast That Amaze All Your Friends! Guarantee."
- Eric T., author of The Ultimate Sudoku Guide.
P/S This is a strongly recommended book that is available for immediate download if you belong to that category that doesn't believe in wasting tens of hours (or more ) on the trial and error method and get yourself frustrated with Sudoku puzzles.
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- I am keen on Sudoku and you have created a desire to write one that subject.
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