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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 Sky One. It was presented by Carol Vorderman. Nine teams of nine players (with one celebrity in each team) representing geographical regions competed to solve a puzzle.
Sudoku solving algorithms. A typical Sudoku puzzle. A standard Sudoku contains 81 cells, in a 9×9 grid, and has 9 boxes, each box being the intersection of the first, middle, or last 3 rows, and the first, middle, or last 3 columns. Each cell may contain a number from one to nine, and each number can only occur once in each row, column, and box.
A 24-clue automorphic Sudoku with translational symmetry. Mathematics can be used to study Sudoku puzzles to answer questions such as "How many filled Sudoku grids are there?", "What is the minimal number of clues in a valid puzzle?" and "In what ways can Sudoku grids be symmetric?" through the use of combinatorics and group theory .
Sudoku. Completely fill the 9x9 grid, using the values 1 through 9 only once in each 3x3 section of the puzzle. By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. Feedback. Help. Join AOL ...
A simple KenKen puzzle, with answers filled in as large numbers. KenKen and KenDoku are trademarked names for a style of arithmetic and logic puzzle invented in 2004 by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, [ 1] who intended the puzzles to be an instruction-free method of training the brain. [ 2] The name derives from the Japanese word for ...
Killer sudoku (also killer su doku, sumdoku, sum doku, sumoku, addoku, or samunamupure) is a puzzle that combines elements of sudoku and kakuro. Despite the name, the simpler killer sudokus can be easier to solve than regular sudokus, depending on the solver's skill at mental arithmetic; the hardest ones, however, can take hours to solve.
Terminology and grid layout. A Sudoku (i.e. the puzzle) is a partially completed grid. A grid has 9 rows, 9 columns and 9 boxes, each having 9 cells (81 total). Boxes can also be called blocks or regions. [ 1] Three horizontally adjacent blocks are a band, and three vertically adjacent blocks are a stack. [ 2]