The rules of Sudoku dictate that every row, column and 3×3 bolded box in the completed grid must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. A surprising fact emerges from these simple rules. In ...

Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess). Competitors at the World ...

Sudoku is arguably one of the best ways to spend a cold, rainy night at home by yourself. Solving a nine-by-nine sudoku square is a deeply satisfying — and often challenging — experience, and it’s for ...

The game’s most devoted solvers have unlocked creativity and complexity in the classic logic game. By Elie Levine and Sam Corbin Sudoku is like any other logic puzzle, in that it relies on deductive ...

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Apple has added sudoku to its collection of puzzles in Apple News+, giving another way for subscribers to test their brainpower every day. Apple News+ offers subscribers in the United States and ...