{"id":23855,"date":"2011-05-04T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2011-05-04T04:56:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:56:50","slug":"sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=23855","title":{"rendered":"Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21996\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku.jpg 238w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku-150x134.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sudoku is puzzle concerned with number placements<\/li>\n<li>Sudoku is played over a 9&#215;9 grid, divided to 3&#215;3 sub grids called &#8220;regions&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The same single integer may not appear twice in the same 9&#215;9 playing board row or Column or in any of the nine 3&#215;3 sub regions of the 9&#215;9 playing board<\/li>\n<li>The puzzle was popularized in 1986 by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli, under The name Sudoku, meaning single number. It became an international hit in 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rules and regulations: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sudoku is played over a 9&#215;9 grid, divided to 3&#215;3 sub grids called &#8220;regions<\/li>\n<li>Sudoku begins with some of the grid cells already filled with numbers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The object of Sudoku is to fill the other empty cells with numbers between 1 and 9 (1 number only in each cell) according the following guidelines:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Number can appear only once on each row<\/li>\n<li>Number can appear only once on each column<\/li>\n<li>Number can appear only once on each region<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A summary of these guidelines would be, that a number should appear only once on each row, column and a region.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Variants:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 9&#215;9 grid with 3&#215;3 regions is by far the most common, variations abound. But Sample puzzles can be 4&#215;4 grids with 2&#215;2 regions.&nbsp; <br \/>5&#215;5 grids with pentomino regions have been published under the name Logi-5; the World Puzzle Championship has featured a 6&#215;6 grid with 2&#215;3 regions and a 7&#215;7 grid with six regions and a disjoint region. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Competitions: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quite latest concept mainly includes world championship.<br \/>The puzzle was popularized in 1986 by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli, under the name Sudoku, meaning single number. It became an international hit in 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first World Sudoku Championship was held in Lucca, Italy, from March 10 to12, 2006.The competition included numerous variants.<\/li>\n<li>The second World Sudoku Championship was held in Prague from March 28 to April 1, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>The third World Sudoku Championship was held in Goa, India, from April 14 to16, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth World Sudoku Championship was held in Slovakia, from April 24 to 27, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth World Sudoku Championship was held in Philadelphia, USA from April 29 to May 2, 2010.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Governing body: <br \/><\/strong><br \/>Mission Statement In its capacity as a governing body, the World Sudoku Federation (WSF) is devoted to extending the role of Sudoku around the Globe. <br \/>It is therefore the Federation&#8221;s purpose to continue to teach and promote Sudoku, while encouraging and organizing tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21996\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku.jpg 238w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-sudoku-150x134.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[12098,12096,243,12097],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-know-your-sports","tag-how-to-play-sudoku","tag-know-sudoku","tag-know-your-sports","tag-learn-sudoku"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudoku - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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