Sudoku : All The Best Free Flash Games Relating To Sudoku

Sudoku is a logic-based puzzle coming under the form of a 9 rows x 9 columns grid, which make 81 cases. In each of the boxes of this number-placement game, you have to enter a figure between 1 and 9 so that each row and each column as well as each 3 x 3 square boxes do not include twice the same figure. The appeal of the game lies in the simplicity of its rules and in the complexity if its solutions.

The sudoku was created around the 80's but became well-know by players around the world in the early 2000s. Thus, the game is available in many daily newspapers and websites, the possibilities of creating different grids being virtually infinite, even if they are more or less complex according to the number and locations of the predefined numbers at the beginning of the game. There are even Sudoku competitions gathering players from all around the world.

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The word sudoku comes from the abbreviation of the Japanese rule for the game : “Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru” meaning “there can only be one and unique figure” (per box and per line).

The first World Sudoku Championship (including several variations) took place in Italy in March 2006 and was won by Czech Jana Tylova.

Sudoku has many game-based variants such as the most famous : Kakuro, that you can try on TomsGames.com.

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