Sudoku

[satori001]

Anybody into it?

[TaylorCompany]

Should I be?

Not sure what it is but if it is a cult I don't want any part of it!

[dmiller]

Is that a site sponsored by Sudo??

:D-->

[krys]

That looks like fun! I might like to fiddle with something like that....just to keep my brain from going ded!

[satori001]

For the search engine challenged, it's a number puzzle.

Picture a box. Divide the box into 9 equal boxes, 3 on top, 3 in the middle, 3 on the bottom.

Do the same with each of the 9 boxes, giving 81 boxes total.

The original box now has 9 columns across, and 9 rows top to bottom. (9x9=81 boxes)

The object is to place the numbers 1-9 in each of the 81 boxes (some are already supplied, so there might be 50 empty boxes left), such that no number is duplicated in any row, any column, or any of the 9 sub-boxes.

Easy.

This might be an example of a successful puzzle, but a real puzzle would probably be in any discernible numeric order.

You might start with this:

|-----------|

|1 | 6| |

| 5 |7 | |

| |6 | 56|

|---|---|---|

| 34| | 1|

| 7|8 1| 4|

|8 | 3 |5 |

|---|---|---|

| |6 |9 2|

|6 | | 3|

|9 | 5| 8|

|-----------|

And end up some time later with this:

-------------

|123|456|789|

|456|789|123|

|789|678|456|

|---|---|---|

|234|567|891|

|567|891|234|

|891|234|567|

|---|---|---|

|345|678|912|

|678|912|123|

|912|345|678|

------------|

Like I said - easy.

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[satori001]

The numbers would align if I could change the font to Courier, but it's apparently not an option on this board. Use your imagination.

[shazdancer]

Ha, I used to do this type of puzzle in the Dell Pencil Puzzle books all the time! They simply call it Number Place.

Shaz

[satori001]

Yeah, what's in a name, right? That was the same game. Now it's the rage, thanks to the Japanese addicts and fanatics, and the hip name. You were ahead of your time.

[Zixar]

Yes, Sudoku puzzles are quite entertaining since they're not a trivia contest like the average crossword puzzle.