The following is an excerpt from “The Appeal of Sudoku”, by Marcel Danesi, Ph.D, posted June 19, 2009, author of “The Puzzle Instinct”)
Despite its Japanese name, the concept behind Sudoku crystallized in the United States in the form of a puzzle called “Numbers in Place”, which appeared for the first time in the May 1979 issue of Dell Puzzles and Crossword Games magazine. It went virtually unnoticed, except by readers of the magazine. By the way, the late architect Howards Garns is pegged as being its inventor.
In 1984, an editor for Nikoli magazines in Japan came across one of the puzzles, changed its name to Sudoku (meaning “only single numbers allowed”) and included it in his magazines. Within a year, major Japanese dailies were carrying the increasingly popular puzzle.
In 1997, a retired judge from New Zealand, named Wayne Gould, saw a Sudoku puzzle and started making his own. These appeared in 2004 in the...
The following is an excerpt from “The Appeal of Sudoku”, by Marcel Danesi, Ph.D, posted June 19, 2009, author of “The Puzzle Instinct”)
Despite its Japanese name, the concept behind Sudoku crystallized in the United States in the form of a puzzle called “Numbers in Place”, which appeared for the first time in the May 1979 issue of Dell Puzzles and Crossword Games magazine. It went virtually unnoticed, except by readers of the magazine. By the way, the late architect Howards Garns is pegged as being its inventor.
In 1984, an editor for Nikoli magazines in Japan came across one of the puzzles, changed its name to Sudoku (meaning “only single numbers allowed”) and included it in his magazines. Within a year, major Japanese dailies were carrying the increasingly popular puzzle.
In 1997, a retired judge from New Zealand, named Wayne Gould, saw a Sudoku puzzle and started making his own. These appeared in 2004 in the...
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