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Killer sudoku (also killer su doku, sumdoku, sum doku, sumoku, addoku, or samunanpure サムナンプレ sum-num(ber) pla(ce)) 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 ...
2015 World Sudoku Championship Sofia, Bulgaria. The World Sudoku Championship (WSC) is an annual international puzzle competition organised by a national member of the World Puzzle Federation. The first event was held in Lucca, Italy, in 2006. National teams are determined by local affiliates of the World Puzzle Federation.
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.
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 ]
The number game Sudoku appeared in early issues of Nikoli. [7] He formulated the name "Sudoku" while he was scrambling to get to a horse race. [ 4 ] [ 10 ] He shortened it from Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru ("numbers should be single") at the urging of his fellow workers. [ 10 ]
Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle is a book on the mathematics of Sudoku. It was written by Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman , and published in 2011 by the Oxford University Press .
The Indian Sudoku Championship has been held offline and online across the years and attracts the top solvers of India. It is a platform for sudoku authors to create their own sudokus for the event, as well as for sudoku enthusiasts to participate and solve them in a national championship involving various sudoku variants.