What is International Sudoku Day?
International Sudoku Day, on September 9th, commemorates the logic-based number-placement puzzle called Sudoku. It's also a day to learn how to play this fun number game.
Sudoku is made up of a grid of little boxes called cells, stacked nine high and nine wide, totaling 81 cells. Players fill each row, column, and square with the numbers 1 through 9. The numbers cannot repeat within a row, column, or square. Also, a Sudoku grid already has some of the numbers filled in. The more spaces that are full, the simpler the game will be.
Sudoku is based on a number puzzle called Latin Squares, which is based on a number puzzle. This game was created by an 18th-century mathematician from Switzerland. These mysteries were published in French newspapers in 1895. Sudoku's version of Sudoku on today, on the other hand, is much more modern. Howard Garns of Connersville, Indiana, invented the game we play today. Garns, a freelance puzzle designer, created Number Place, and he created the game Number Place.. Number Place appeared in the magazine "Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games" in 1979.
The game first appeared in Japan in 1984. "The digits are limited to one occurrence" in Sudoku, which means "the digits are limited to one occurrence." Number games in Japan are much more popular there since the Japanese language doesn't work well for crossword puzzles. In fact, over 600,000 Sudoku magazines are purchased each month in Japan.
Sudoku was discovered by a New Zealand judge named Wayne Gould in 1997 while on vacation in Tokyo. He is credited with reintroducing the puzzle game to the Western world. Sudoku puzzles were published in 2004 by The Times of London and The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire. Sudoku has since then been a global phenomenon.
