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Being a game that does not really require one to master any complex mathematical concepts even though numbers play a vital role besides logical thinking about the placement of a series of 1-9 in such a way that no number is repeated in the same row or column and appears only once in the same, sudoku puzzles to print is a brain-game that tests your reasoning skills and sharpens your mental faculties.

We don’t exactly blame you for also joining the ranks of these Sudoku enthusiasts who scour the daily papers, magazines and books dedicated to the game for clues and tips from expert players and techniques on solving the puzzle in record time.

Chances are unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you’re probably familiar with the hugely popular number game called Sudoku. Just in case you’re not familiar with Sudoku it’s a puzzle game based around number placement and is a game of intense concentration, patience and steadfast thought.

Because of its wide spread following Sudoku puzzles can be found almost everywhere from textbooks, magazines and newspapers. In fact, Sudoku is now rapidly making its way across the Internet. The game is based on a series of grids with one big grid that is essentially a 9 x 9 grid that holds 9 smaller grids that are basically 3 x 3 grids.

In April 1984, the Japanese company Nikoli published a Number Place puzzle for the first time in one of it’s publications; ‘Monthly Nikolist’. They entitled this puzzle ‘Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru’, which, being a bit of a mouthful, was shortened subsequently to ‘Su Doku’ which roughly translates as ‘single number’. It was at this time that Sudoku came by some of the rules which govern the puzzle today, such as the fact that the puzzle can not have more than 32 given numbers to start with. Nikoli still hold the Japanese copyright to the name sudoku puzzle grids and anyone else who publishes them in Japan must call them something different.