Daily puzzlers would be quick to tell you that sudoku, Wordle’s mathematical cousin, is not as easy as it looks. The small grid, found often next to a word scramble or comic strip in a print newspaper ...

TOKYO — Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duct cancer.

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On one level, sudoku is a simple and fun way to pass the time and keep the brain ticking – but dig deeper, and some fiendishly clever math patterns reveal themselves. The most recent to blow our minds ...

In a new report published in JAMA Neurology, a team of doctors discuss one of their more puzzling cases: a man who had a seizure when he tried to solve Sudoku. The patient was a 25-year-old man who ...

Chances are, you’re fully aware that the number-placement logic game Sudoku is massively popular. But if you’ve been in a cave the past few years and need evidence, look no further than the 18 (and ...

When you get stuck on a fiendishly difficult sudoku, it’s hard not to wonder if the puzzle really has a solution. At another moment, aglow in the triumph of a clever deduction, you might have a ...

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Dr. Sudoku has a decent set of features and a lot of prebuilt puzzles, but a D pad and buttons isn't the ideal way to play. Sudoku is sudoku, regardless of where you play it. The popular ...

They baffle, delight, and frustrate millions of people around the world on a daily basis. But even the most dedicated Sudoku-solver might have never spotted this secret pattern. Mathematicians have ...