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Playing Sudoku

by Ty Arthur

Playing a Sudoku Puzzle

Sudoku has taken the game playing word by storm with both print and video game incarnations becoming increasingly popular. Although the game is based on filling a grid with numbers it has surprisingly little to do with math and more with strategy.

Understanding Sudoku

  • The History of Sudoku

    Learn about sudoku puzzle history, with easy solving hints and help on how to get sudoku answers, in this free math game strategy video. Read More

  • Types of Sudoku Puzzles

    Learn about types of sudoku puzzles and the rules of the game in this free math game strategy video on how to play sudoku. Read More

  • How to Understand SUDOKU at Level II

    Now you are at second level, it gets more challenging but it is a game of Harmony, Balance and Place. Never forget that, you can Do it Read More

  • The Rules of the Sudoku Puzzle

    Learn all about the basic rules of the logic puzzle game, Sudoku, from an expert in this free how-to video series on playing a Sudoku puzzle. Read More

  • What is the Puzzle Game of Sudoku?

    Learn about the history of the puzzle with an understanding of the meaning of the word "Sudoku" from an expert in this free how-to video series on playing a Sudoku puzzle. Read More

  • How to Choose the Right Difficulty Sudoku

    As with most puzzles, sudoku is available in varying degrees of difficulty. The easiest puzzles are the traditional three-by-three grids with several numbers already filled Read More

  • How to Teach a Child Sudoku

    Sudoku is a puzzle that requires reasoning and logic to solve. They have only one way to solve them and they are quite fun and addictive. Teaching children to do Sudoku is Read More

  • How to Learn Sudoku

    Learning Sudoku can help exercise your brain and enhance your reasoning and logic skills. Sudoku is a puzzle that requires a lost of concentration to solve. The puzzles are Read More

  • How to Use Sudoku Jargon

    American architect Howard Garns invented the modern version of Sudoku in 1979. Sudoku is a puzzle where you try to arrange numbers 1 to 9 in a specific order. Each digit Read More

Learning Sudoku Strategies

Solving Sudoku Puzzles

  • How to Solve a Jigsaw Sudoku

    A jigsaw sudoku, also known as an irregular sudoku, gets its name from the interesting shape of its individual grids. Unlike the boxy shape of traditional games, jigsaw Read More

  • How to Win at Sudoku

    Sudoku is a Japanese number game that has hit the rest of the world like a storm. Suddenly sudoku puzzles can be found everywhere--books, magazines and daily newspapers. Read More

  • How to Solve a Snakes on a Sudoku Puzzle

    The "Snakes on a Sudoku Puzzle Book" was designed to be the official sudoku book from the movie "Snakes on a Plane." Game play is identical to traditional sudoku, which may Read More

  • How to Solve a Sudoku

    Sudoku is a puzzle game with three simple rules. A Sudoku square has nine rows and nine columns, and is further divided into nine sub-squares with nine individual boxes. To Read More

  • How to Solve a Sudoku Puzzle

    Although best known as a mind-challenging Japanese import, sudoku was actually invented in 1979 by an American. Sudoku rules state that a number can only be used one time Read More

  • How to Solve a Sudoku Rubik's Cube

    A Sudoku Cube is an extremely challenging puzzle that combines the 3-dimensional spatial relations of a Rubik's Cube and the mathematical algorithms of Sudoku. In order to Read More

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