Su-Doku
"Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That's all there is to it." - http://www.sudoku.com/
There's no mathematics involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. It's fun. It's challenging. It's very addictive! You don’t need to have a brawny brain rather a simple observatory; reasoning would suffice to play this game. A few months ago blogging was the latest craze among youth - It seems it has been replaced by Sudoku these days. Every major English newspaper publishes a Sudoku puzzle everyday. The Deccan Chronicle goes to the extent of describing it as "Suffer its agony, discover its ecstasy. Everyday." My first Sudoku solving venture took a little more than 20 minutes. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a number from 1 through 9 in each cell of a grid, most frequently a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 sub-grids (called "regions"), starting with various numbers given in some cells (the "givens"). Each row, column and region must contain only one instance of each number. Completing the puzzle requires patience and modest logical ability. I have two Sudoku champions- Kiran and Rajkiran as my room-mates from whom I learnt to play the game. I generally try to solve my puzzle by taking the help of a piece of paper and a pencil/pen to list the possible candidate digits for the square and go by the process of elimination by cross referencing. When I typed in 'Sudoku' in Google some of the interesting results that surfaced were:
Get a new SuDoku Puzzle everyday!
The Official SuDoku website
All you wanted to know about SuDoku and its origins
Other Japanese games like SuDoku
Tips and Tricks to solve a SuDoku puzzle
There's no mathematics involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. It's fun. It's challenging. It's very addictive! You don’t need to have a brawny brain rather a simple observatory; reasoning would suffice to play this game. A few months ago blogging was the latest craze among youth - It seems it has been replaced by Sudoku these days. Every major English newspaper publishes a Sudoku puzzle everyday. The Deccan Chronicle goes to the extent of describing it as "Suffer its agony, discover its ecstasy. Everyday." My first Sudoku solving venture took a little more than 20 minutes. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a number from 1 through 9 in each cell of a grid, most frequently a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 sub-grids (called "regions"), starting with various numbers given in some cells (the "givens"). Each row, column and region must contain only one instance of each number. Completing the puzzle requires patience and modest logical ability. I have two Sudoku champions- Kiran and Rajkiran as my room-mates from whom I learnt to play the game. I generally try to solve my puzzle by taking the help of a piece of paper and a pencil/pen to list the possible candidate digits for the square and go by the process of elimination by cross referencing. When I typed in 'Sudoku' in Google some of the interesting results that surfaced were:
Get a new SuDoku Puzzle everyday!
The Official SuDoku website
All you wanted to know about SuDoku and its origins
Other Japanese games like SuDoku
Tips and Tricks to solve a SuDoku puzzle
posted by Xenas @ 7/04/2005 03:18:00 PM
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