https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/ en Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:05:36 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-69960 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:05:36 -0400 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-69960 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-59526 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:14:05 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-59526 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-58355 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:02:02 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-58355 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57927 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:18 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57927 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57920 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:59:14 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57920 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57918 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:28:32 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57918 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57914 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:29:50 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57914 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57913 If the name sounds Japanese, that's because it is: Sudoku came to this country from the puzzle-crazy Land of the Rising Sun. Translated into English, 'Sudoku' - or 'Su doku' as some call it - means something like "Single Number". Although Sudoku is a Japanese import, its roots lie in the work of an 18th-century Swiss genius. Leonhard Euler, who was born in Basle in 1707 and has been described as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Plagued by eyesight problems that eventually led to blindness, Euler nevertheless produced formulas in every branch of mathematics, wrote 886 books and papers and also found the time and energy to father 13 children. But the idea that is saluted every day, albeit unknowingly, by fans of Sudoku is Euler's "Latin Squares", which he introduced in 1783 as a "nouveau espece de carres magiques", which translates as "a new kind of magic squares". This was a grid of equal dimensions in which every number or symbol occurs once in each row or column. It differs from the Sudoku grid only in that the latter is subdivided into blocks of nine. Sudoku's modern worldwide vogue can be traced back to the early 1980s, when it appeared in an American puzzle magazine under the name of the "Number Place" game. This was noted by the Japanese puzzle magazine publishers Nikoli. Its attraction was that it transcended language barriers and, in any case, Japanese does not lend itself to crosswords because of the nature of its alphabet. Nikoli copied the idea and introduced it to its readers in 1984. It was such a hit that there are now five Sudoku magazines published in Japan each month, with a total circulation of 660,000. The Sudoku name is registered as a trademark in Japan, so rivals run it under the original US name of Number Place quote taken from an article by RICHARD PENDLEBURY, Daily Mail - 12th May 2005]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:20:13 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57913 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57911 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:58:55 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57911 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57902 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:22:23 -0500 https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/sudoku-buku/#comment-57902