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VOLTA 3rd CONGO 3rd udoku (/suːːdoːkuː, -ːdːk-, sː-/; originally called

Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial
SENEGAL 4th SENEGAL 4th S number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku,

the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each
column, each row, and each of the nine 3 × 3 sub-grids
SENIOR BOYS CATEGORY that compose the grid (also called “boxes”, “blocks”, or

“regions”) contains all the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle
HOUSE RANK setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a

well-posed puzzle has a single solution.
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SENEGAL 2nd French newspapers featured variations of the Sudo-
ku puzzles in the 19th century, and the puzzle has ap-

BENUE 3rd peared since 1979 in puzzle books under the name
Number Place. However, the modern Sudoku only be-
VOLTA 4th gan to gain widespread popularity in 1986 when it was
published by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli un-
der the name Sudoku, meaning “single number”. It first
FINAL STANDING appeared in a U.S. newspaper, and then in The Times

(London), in 2004, thanks to the efforts of Wayne Gould,

who devised a computer program to rapidly produce
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benue 1st Sudoku is one of the most popular puzzle games of all
time. The goal of Sudoku is to fill a 9×9 grid with num-
bers so that each row, column, and 3×3 section con-
congo 2nd tains all the digits between 1 and 9. As a logic puzzle,
Sudoku is also an excellent brain game. If you play Su-
doku daily, you will soon start to see improvements in
volta 3rd your concentration and overall brain power.

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