what is sudoku all about?

Answer 1

Sudoku, also known as Number Place or Nanpure, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various digits given in some cells (the "givens"); each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability.

You can try some out here...
http://www.sudoku.com/

Answer 2

Here are some tips for solving sudokus.

Also, try putting 'sudoku tips' into a search engine.

For very hard sudokus, try writing several little numbers as 'pencil marks' in each square, to indicate what numbers are still possible in that square. Cross them out as each number becomes no longer a possibility, when numbers get filled in elsewhere in the row, column or large square.

You will learn new sudoku 'tricks' as you go along. One important one is that if you have 2 squares, either in a line horizontally or vertically or in the same large 3 x 3 square, with the same 2 numbers as pencil marks (say 1 and 5), you can then say, '1 and 5 are accounted for by these 2 squares'. You can then cross out any 1 and 5 pencil marks in other squares in the the row, column or large square that the 2 squares are in. The same applies if there are 3 pencil marks the same in 3 squares, etc.

Also, try the yahoo downloadable sudoku game.

Answer 3

Sudoku (数独, sūdoku?), also known as Number Place or Nanpure, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various digits given in some cells (the "givens"); each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability. An early variant of the puzzle was published in a French newspaper in 1895 and may have been influenced by the great Swiss mathemetician Leonhard Euler, who repopularized Latin squares.

Though Euler is frequently misrepresented as being the origin of either game, in fact Latin Squares are frequently engraved in architecture as a numerological talisman, some several thousand years old; and Euler made no changes to their rules. Arabic Numerologists had already compiled an exhaustive list of order 3 through order 9 Greco-Latin Squares in the Jabirean Corpus by 990 AD.

The modern game Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979. Interest in Sudoku stems from a revival in Japan in 1986, when the venerable puzzle publisher Nikoli discovered the game as invented by Howard Garns and initially distributed for children under the name "Number Place" in an older Dell Magazines publication, and republished the format leading to widespread international popularity in 2005.

Answer 4

Sudoku is all about strategy...the way I play it:
look at one box and then look at all the numbers in all adjacent boxes and in the same grid to determine which number should go in that box or to start the process of elimination on what can't go in that box...hope it helps...but if you want more feedback, message me through Yahoo! Answers forum.
Remember: Love the Game AND the Player
...peace out :@ (<

Answer 5

It is a numbers puzzle and can be quite addictive (like Yahoo!answers). You have to place the numbers one to nine across, down and in a grid without the number repeating. Can be fun, but I soon got bored with it.

Answer 6

Using your head to figure out how to get each box and row filled in without repeating in either. Plus it's kind of fun.

Answer 7

It's a number game. I manage to waste even more hours playing it than I do on Yahoo Answers!!

Answer 8

oh it's a very interesting game... u have several levels of difficulty... U have to fill in numbers n they appear only once in a box, in a column n row

Answer 9

Math.
Its really confusing.

Answer 10

Solving it and having fun! :)