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, also known as Number Place or Nanpure, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various digits given in some cells (the "givens"); each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability. An early variant of the puzzle was published in a French newspaper in 1895 and may have been influenced by the great Swiss mathemetician Leonhard Euler, who repopularized Latin squares.

Though Euler is frequently misrepresented as being the origin of either game, in fact Latin Squares are frequently engraved in architecture as a numerological talisman, some several thousand years old; and Euler made no changes to their rules. Arabic Numerologists had already compiled an exhaustive list of order 3 through order 9 Greco-Latin Squares in the Jabirean Corpus by 990 AD.

The modern game Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979. Interest in Sudoku stems from a revival in Japan in 1986, when the venerable puzzle publisher Nikoli discovered the game as invented by Howard Garns and initially distributed for children under the name "Number Place" in an older Dell Magazines publication, and republished the format leading to widespread international popularity in 2005.

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404 Nikoli - From the company that introduced the game to Japan in 1984. Description, history, tutorial, and instructions on constructing custom puzzles.

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Solving Sudoku - Step by step guide to solving sudoku puzzles. Goes from basic to advanced techniques.
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The Guardian: So you thought Sudoku came from the Land of the Rising Sun... - Article by David Smith covering the puzzle's origins as Number Place by Dell Puzzle Magazine in New York in the 1970s.

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