6400 Printable Sudoku Puzzles With Solutions

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Sudoku 简介

Sudoku (数独 sūdoku), also known as Number Place or Nanpure, is a logic-based placement
puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each
cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various
digits given in some cells (the "givens"); each row, column, and region must contain
only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical
ability.

Euler is frequently cited as the source of the puzzle, but examples of Latin Squares
were engraved in ancient architecture as numerological talismans. Euler made no
changes to their rules. Arabic numerologists had already compiled an exhaustive list
of order 3 through order 9 Greco-Latin Squares in the Jabirean Corpus by 990 AD.

The modern puzzle Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979 by Howard Garns. Garns
contributed his puzzles to Dell Magazines, which published them under the moniker
"Number Place". Interest in Sudoku surged from a revival in Japan in 1986, when puzzle
publisher Nikoli discovered the game in older Dell publications, and republished the
format leading to widespread international popularity in 2005.

Introduction

The name "Sudoku" is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru" (数
字は独身に限る), meaning "the digits must remain single". It is a trademark of puzzle publisher Nikoli
Co. Ltd. in Japan. In Japanese, the word is pronounced [sɯːdokɯː]; in English, it is usually spoken
with an Anglicised pronunciation, [səˈdəʊkuː] (BrE) [səˈdoʊkuː] (AmE) or ['suːdəʊku] (BrE) ['suːdoʊku]
(AmE) (See IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) or IPA chart for English for notation usage.) Other
Japanese publishers refer to the puzzle as Number Place, the original U.S. title, or as "Nampure" for
short. Some non-Japanese publishers spell the title as "Su Doku".

The numerals in Sudoku puzzles are used for convenience; arithmetic relationships between
numerals are irrelevant. Any set of distinct symbols will do; letters, shapes, or colours may be used
without altering the rules. In fact, ESPN published Sudoku puzzles substituting the positions on a
baseball field for the numbers 1-9. Dell Magazines, the puzzle's originator, has been using numerals
for Number Place in its magazines since they first published it in 1979.

The attraction of the puzzle is that the rules are simple, yet the line of reasoning required to solve