Solving Sudoku Puzzles are brain teasers that have even been known as wordless crossword puzzles. Sudoku Puzzles are frequently solved through creativeness and have been making a great impact all across the world.

Also called as Number Place, Sudoku puzzles are in fact logic-based assignment puzzles. The aim of the game is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell that is found on a 9 x 9 grid which is subdivided into 3 x 3 sub grids or regions. Several numbers are mostly specified in certain cells. These are referred as givens. Ideally, at the end of the game, each row, column, and region should hold only one instance of every number from 1 through 9. Endurance and logic are two qualities desirable so as to end the game.

Number puzzles very much akin to the Sudoku Puzzles have already been in existence and have found publication in many newspapers for over a century now. For illustration, Le Siecle, a daily newspaper based in France, featured, as early as 1892, a 9x9 grid with 3x3 sub-squares, but utilized just double-digit numbers instead of the current 1-9. One more French newspaper, La France, established a brainteaser in 1895 which utilized the digits 1-9 but had no 3x3 sub-squares, but the solution does hold 1-9 in each of the 3 x 3 areas where the sub-squares would be. These puzzles were daily features in several other newspapers, including L'Echo de Paris for about a decade, but it fatefully vanished with the arrival of the First World War.

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Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired engineer and freelance brainteaser constructor, was regarded as the designer of the modern Sudoku Puzzles. His design was first published in 1979 in New York by Dell, through its periodical Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games under the heading Number Place. Garns' design was most likely inspired by the Latin square invention of Leonhard Euler, with a little alterations, basically, with the addition of a regional restriction and the presentation of the game as a brainteaser, providing a partially-complete grid and requiring the solver to fill out the unfilled cells.

Sudoku Puzzles were then taken to Japan by the puzzle printing association Nikoli. It launched the game in its paper Monthly Nikoli sometime in April 1984. Nikoli president Maki Kaji gave it the name Sudoku, a name that the association holds trademark rights over; other Japanese magazines which featured the puzzle have to settle for alternative names.

In 1989, Sudoku Puzzles entered the video games arena when it was published as DigitHunt on the Commodore 64. It was launched by Loadstar/Softdisk Publishing. Since then, other computerized versions of the Sudoku Puzzles have been developed. For instance, Yoshimitsu Kanai made many computerized puzzle generator of the game under the name Single Number for the Apple Macintosh in 1995 both in English and in Japanese version; for the Palm (PDA) in 1996; and for Mac OS X in 2005.