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Joey Stalin Inner circle Canada 1072 Posts |
Well I was in a book store and I went to the games section to see if they had anything on magic. All they had were books on Texas Hold'em. But I noticed at least 2 shelves devoted to books on a game I have been seeing everywhere, Sudoku. Every paper I pick up has this game in it. To me is just looks like numbers in a grid. I have no clue how you play it. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co......0714.gif there is a pic of one of the grids. Does anyone play this game? Can anyone explain it to me? Can anyone offer and tips?
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galerius Loyal user Piemontese Alps ( Northwestern Italy ) 245 Posts |
You have to fill the grid so that for every square, column and row there's a digit ( 1 to 9 ) just once.
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ralphdean Loyal user Northern Ca 300 Posts |
Go to http://www.websudoku.com for all the games you want.
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Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts |
The other day I saw someone playing a new kind of sudoku. It looked to be very similar to regular sudoku but they were using letters instead of numbers. It was really weird.
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tropicalpenguin Veteran user 396 Posts |
It's just a harder version
Classic Sudoku has a 9x9 grid, divided into nine, 3x3 grids, where the goal is that every row, column and section uses the numbers 1-9 exactly once. The letter version is the same, except it's a 25x25 grid, divided into 25 5x5 grids, and you use the letters A-Y Much harder, because there's just more stuff to keep track of.
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ralphdean Loyal user Northern Ca 300 Posts |
Arrg! I'm having enough difficulty with the 9x9 version. I can not put down the news paper until I do the puzzle though. Glad I never caught on to crosswords.
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
There is also Sudoku that uses both letters and numbers. I am too lazy to check in my book now but I think it is letters a to f and numbers 1 to 6
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Abo Raum New user 17 Posts |
Soduku comes standard in bicycle card packs now instead of texas hold em rules
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tropicalpenguin Veteran user 396 Posts |
Rather, it's an ad because US Playing Card Co. is manufacturing decks of Sudoku now. They package the same puzzle in every deck (I should know, I go through cards like most humans go through water!)
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Daegs Inner circle USA 4291 Posts |
I recently learnt how to do it thanks to being bored at work, and quickly found them boring.
Glad to hear there is a 25 one... that's really sweet. Once you understand how to eliminate things and pairs, even the "hardest" of the sudoku fall pretty fast.... Also, I would AVOID http://www.websudoku.com I just tried one of their "evil" puzzles and it had 25 different solutions, and a real sudoku has only 1 solution, ones with more than one are "broken". So if it is giving out broken sudoku on the evil level, not sure what the quality of the puzzles they give are. |
Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
Over at the Grey Matters Mental Gym, I host randomly-generated Sudoku puzzles that you can solve online.
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