Crossword clues for sudoku
sudoku
- Recent puzzle page addition
- Puzzle with a 9x9 grid, often
- Puzzle that moved from the U.S. to Japan to England and back to the U.S
- Puzzle based on Latin Squares
- Popular number-logic puzzle
- Popular number puzzle
- Popular logic puzzle
- Place to find numbered cells
- Numerical puzzle
- Number-logic puzzle
- Number puzzles containing nine 3×3 squares
- Number puzzle in a 9x9 grid
- Number placement puzzle with a 9 x 9 grid
- Nine-by-nine number puzzle
- Game typically with 81 squares
- Digital puzzle?
- Digital poser
- Digital game?
- Daily paper logic puzzle
- Daily crossword neighbor
- Crossword alternative
- Challenge for the numerate
- 9 x 9, 1-9 puzzle
- (Usually) nine-by-nine numbers puzzle
- Numbers game?
- Diversion with 81 squares
- Craze of 2005-06
- Subject of a 2009 national tournament cheating scandal
- 3 x 3 x 3 container?
- Numerical puzzle with a 9x9 grid
- With 67-Across, what the circled part of this crossword represents
- Kudos built on university logic puzzle
- Son turns over magazine after daughter's puzzle
- Something puzzling about United Kingdom displacing old during withdrawal
- Numbers puzzle
- Puzzling form on the upturn, United knocked us out
- Puzzle involving the numbers 1 to 9
- Puzzle from the south of France all right, you said
- Puzzle French bridge player with fine bluff, essentially
- Taking flight from here to America, about to tackle a grid-filling problem
- Upstanding partners in supposed special relationship about to complete puzzle
- Puzzle with number squares
- Number puzzle
- Paper puzzle usually involving a 9x9 grid (2004)
- Digital challenge
- 9x9 number puzzle
- Variation of the Latin square puzzle
- Typically 81-digit diversion
Wiktionary
n. (context games puzzles English) A type of puzzle whose completion requires each of typically nine rows and columns and each of as many usually square subregions to contain, without duplication, 1 up to 9 or the grid dimension.
Wikipedia
(, , , originally called Number Place), is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", "regions", or "subsquares") contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a well-posed puzzle has a unique solution.
Completed games are always a type of Latin square with an additional constraint on the contents of individual regions. For example, the same single integer may not appear twice in the same row, column, or any of the nine 3×3 subregions of the 9x9 playing board.
French newspapers featured variations of the puzzles in the 19th century, and the puzzle has appeared since 1979 in puzzle books under the name Number Place. However, the modern Sudoku only started to become mainstream in 1986 by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli, under the name Sudoku, meaning "single number". It first appeared in a US newspaper and then The Times (UK) in 2004, from the efforts of Wayne Gould, who devised a computer program to rapidly produce distinct puzzles.