Archive for August, 2007


Sudoku on the Information Super Highway

You do banking online. You buy and trade stuff online. You even view satellite images of the earth online. So why not join the craze and jump on in the Sudoku mania and have access to a virtual multitude of Sudoku puzzles online!

Sudoku has taken the world by storm and has gotten kids and adults alike hooked on the brain booster whose popularity has even surpassed that of the Rubik’s Cube. If you can’t get enough of this amazing game that keeps you busy at hours on end, you probably already memorize the online sites that offer Sudoku game puzzles for countless hours of fun and challenge.

If you’re a newbie and you’re not sure if Sudoku is for you, you can try it out as gingerly as you wish for free from trusted sites on the world wide web. Even before you go out and get yourself the various forms that the Sudoku game has taken like board games, hand-helds and such, here are a few interesting sites that offer digs on the world’s most favorite pastime:

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Tips in solving sudoku puzzles

Sudoku puzzles has become a world wide craze, taking the United States, the United Kingdom and the rest of the European countries by storm. For such a seemingly simple game, this is quite an achievement especially when compared to other hugely popular games that are all technologically enhanced.

Sudoku puzzles are games of logic that has 9 x 9 grid. Each puzzle has 9 columns, 9 rows and 9 squares. In each square, the player will find another 9 empty boxes where he or she must write a number. Only numbers 1 to 9 can be placed there.
The objective of the game is to fill up all the empty boxes with numbers without repeating any number in the same row, column and square. This can be very difficult as there are about 81 little boxes that you have to fill up.

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Be a Sudoku addict

Since time immemorial, human beings have always sought to challenge their minds. They involve themselves with word and number puzzles and riddles just to test their mental skills. Throughout history, numerous puzzles and games have become popular. Of course there is the ever popular Crossword Puzzle which had millions of people writing letters in small boxes trying to complete rows and columns of words and phrases. Crosswords puzzles are so popular that it has a standard feature of most newspaper all over the world.

During the 1970s, a simple colorful block called the Rubik’s Cube became so popular that it can already be considered a phenomenon. It would not be uncommon then to spot groups of friends of all ages gathered a person trying to solve the puzzle of the Rubik’s Cube. It has almost become bragging rights for individuals then if they were able to solve the Rubik’s Cube.
Now that we are in the millennium, one puzzle seems to be dominating the rest in terms of popularity. The game that I am talking about is the Japanese numbers puzzle called Sudoku.

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Welcome to the World of Sudoku

You didn’t know what hit you. Suddenly, you just found people around you wrapped up in their own world, scribbling along with weird grids filled with numbers. Then you started seeing people furtively doing the same thing on their office monitors when the boss was not looking. On the train, you would see usually apathetic commuters blissfully engrossed with devices that had the same 9×9 grids still with these series of numbers. You turned on the television set and viola-there it was again-a giant 9×9 grid with people fighting among themselves to solve the puzzle first.

You figure that the old adage, “if you can’t beat them, join them” makes good sense so you picked up your first Sudoku puzzle and the rest was history. Now, you are one of the millions of individuals that have discovered the joys of Sudoku and you can’t get enough.

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