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A Sudoku starts with some cells containing numbers (clues), and the goal is to solve the remaining cells. Proper Sudokus have one solution. [ 1 ] Players and investigators use a wide range of computer algorithms to solve Sudokus, study their properties, and make new puzzles, including Sudokus with interesting symmetries and other properties.
Try Sudoku. The logic puzzle has simple rules, and is easy to learn. Worked out your body enough and want to move on to your brain? Try Sudoku. The logic puzzle has simple rules, and is easy to learn.
The world's first live TV Sudoku show, held on July 1, 2005, Sky One. The world's first live TV Sudoku show, Sudoku Live, was a puzzle contest first broadcast on July 1, 2005, on the British pay-television channel Sky One. It was presented by Carol Vorderman. Nine teams of nine players (with one celebrity in each team) representing geographical ...
A Sudoku whose regions are not (necessarily) square or rectangular is known as a Jigsaw Sudoku. In particular, an N × N square where N is prime can only be tiled with irregular N -ominoes . For small values of N the number of ways to tile the square (excluding symmetries) has been computed (sequence A172477 in the OEIS ). [ 10 ]
Sudoku. Completely fill the 9x9 grid, using the values 1 through 9 only once in each 3x3 section of the puzzle. By Masque Publishing
Free Software implementation of an Exact Cover solver in C - uses Algorithm X and Dancing Links. Includes examples for sudoku and logic grid puzzles. DlxLib NuGet package - a C# class library that implements DLX; dlxlib npm package - a JavaScript library that implements DLX; dancing-links-c++ - a C++ library that implements DLX
Thomas Snyder (born c. 1980) [1] is an American puzzle creator and world-champion sudoku and logic puzzle solver. He is the first person to win both the World Sudoku Championship (3 times) and the World Puzzle Championship. Snyder writes a puzzle blog as Dr. Sudoku. [2]
The candidates for the erased symbols narrow down to a subset of the alphabet as symbols get excluded due to constraints. All values that are used by another cell in the constraint, and pairs that are shared among two other cells and so on are eliminated. Sudoku players use this method of logic excluding to solve most sudoku puzzles.