{"id":4092,"date":"2021-09-08T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:43:58","slug":"interesting-facts-about-sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/08\/interesting-facts-about-sudoku\/","title":{"rendered":"187: Interesting Facts about Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4093\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Sudoku is a number game in which missing numbers are to be filled into a 9 by 9 grid of squares which are subdivided into 3 by 3 boxes so that every row, every column, and every box contains the numbers 1 through 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">Sudoku is not just a \u201ccorresponding\u201d name for this puzzle. In Japanese \u201cSu\u201d means a number, while \u201cDoku\u201d means only\/single. So Sudoku means \u201conly single digits\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">Actually, Sudoku isn\u2019t a Japanese game it all. It is American invented. Howard Garns created it as Number Place in 1979 but died in 1989 before Japanese publisher Nikoli got a hold of it. The game didn\u2019t really take off until 2004 though when Wayne Gould convinced The Times in London to publish it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">When Sudoku became a world hit in 2005, it is estimated that it is the biggest phenomenon since the Rubik\u2019s Cube in the 1980s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">In the year following Sudoku going viral, pencil sales are said to have increased by around 700%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\">Sudoku is a logic game and involves absolutely no math or language skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">There are\u00a06670903752021072936960Sudoku grids. However, the essentially different Sudoku grids are only 5,472,730,538. Lifetime is not enough to solve all the grids.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">You don\u2019t need to be an expert to make a Sudoku puzzle. Anyone with basic logical reasoning can\u00a0make a Sudoku puzzle within minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">There is a minimum number of clues to be given for the Sudoku puzzle to have one solution.\u00a0The least number of clues of a given Sudoku with a unique solution is 17.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">The fastest recorded time to complete a Sudoku puzzle was 1 minute 23.93 seconds, as the Guinness World Records says. The record was set on May 20, 2006 by Thomas Snyder, an American Sudoku champion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\">Arto Inkala, a Mathematician from Finland, claims to have come up with the \u201cworld\u2019s hardest Sudoku\u201d in 2012. Typically Sudoku difficulty is graded with 1 star being easy and 5 stars being very hard. According to Britain\u2019s The Telegraph newspaper, Inkala\u2019s Sudoku would be graded 11 on the difficulty scale!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\">There is a\u00a0worldwide Sudoku Championship every year since Mar 2006. The first World Sudoku Championship was held in\u00a0Lucca, Italy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">Sudoku is good for anyone and any age and helps develop mental abilities as well as keeps them in good condition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Playing Sudoku regularly can have benefits, like boosting your concentration and focus, lowering blood pressure, preventing or easing depression and possibly even preventing dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">Sudoku is considered highly addictive and considered as one of the good addictions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Recommendation<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">If you did not already know it, Sudoku is a fun game that is great as a pass-time and a mental workout too. If you are looking for a game that can prove to get easier over time and present a challenge for your mental capacity, Sudoku it is. Whether you are young or old, this game offers the opportunity to occupy your mind while it provides a variety of other physical and mental health benefits too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><u>Question<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">What are you waiting for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><u>Titbits<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">Sudoku inadvertently obstructed justice by interfering with a court case (probably more than once). In Australia, 5 Jurors were caught playing a sneaky game of Sudoku instead of paying attention to evidence being presented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><u>Value additions are most welcome<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;\">For regular updates, please register here<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hBsEqO5oeA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Subscribe&#8221; &#8212; Air Marshal&#039;s Perspective\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/embed\/#?secret=wnzQHqXWDN#?secret=hBsEqO5oeA\" data-secret=\"hBsEqO5oeA\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudoku is a number game in which missing numbers are to be filled into a 9 by 9 grid of squares which are subdivided into 3 by 3 boxes so that every row, every column, and every box contains the numbers 1 through 9. \u00a0 Sudoku is not just a \u201ccorresponding\u201d name for this puzzle. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/08\/interesting-facts-about-sudoku\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;187: Interesting Facts about Sudoku&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,61],"tags":[62,172,59],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-puzzles","tag-puzzles","tag-sodoku","tag-thoughts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}