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Originating from Japan, sudoku has become a very popular pastime it is one of the only brain teasing puzzles that easily becomes competitive.
Location
Sudoku is found in daily newspapers on the Internet and you can buy books of sudoku challenges.
Age
Like most puzzles sudoku comes in various degrees of difficulty, start simple and progress to your own ability. a personal challenge.
Ability
To be a successful Sudoku puzzle solver you will need patience, the ability to concentrate, and a heightened sense of deduction and problem solving, (a chess players mind).
Description
In its simplest form sudoku is a simple grid of nine empty squares, you are given one number the object of the puzzle is to complete the grid so that every line adds up to ten and no number is used twice. As the degree of difficulty rises the grid becomes one of nine grids three in each direction each grid must add to ten but each line to thirty, and no grid must use a number twice. a puzzle you must try, a personal challenge.
Dedication
No set dedication is necessary, just casually when it suits you. although the more regularly you practise the sharper and quicker your mind becomes.
Potential
The potential of sudoku is in the personal satisfaction of completing a puzzle, as you become more proficient this will become solving the puzzle in a time limit you have set yourself and potentially in a race to complete against others.
Closely
Related Activities
Crosswords, word searching, puzzle solving and jigsaws.
Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.
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