Who created sudoku puzzles? When? Where?

jesus_geek

It was an American guy in the 1970s. It then became wildly popular in Japan and pretty much died out here until it was re-imported recently. Jan 05 06, 6:30 AM

gmackematix

A retired American architect called Howard Gams created them as Number Squares in the late 70s. They were first published in a Dell Magazines publication in 1979 and from there went to Japan. Under the name Sudoku (Japanese for "number place"), Japan is where, in 1984, they first became popular. In 2004, a retired New Zealand born Hong Kong judge devised a computer program to solve sudoku. He then offered the puzzle to "The Times" newspaper in Britain. The Times published their first sudoku in November 2004, and the Daily Mail followed three days later. Before long, almost every newspaper had a sudoku, Dell Magazines published magazines full of them and a craze known as "the Rubik's Cube of the 21st century" was born. The following wiki article tells you all about the history of sudoku, as well as how to solve them, the maths behind them, variants and so on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku Jan 05 06, 1:15 PM

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