Sudoku Grid Changes To Meet Experience Of Players
Like many other interests that have a rapid climb to the top of popularity, the Sudoku grid has seen many changes in its short lifetime. Originally called the numbers game by its originator, the game of placing numbers in a nine by nine square block became wildly popular after a Japanese game company began worldwide distribution of the popular numbers game. While most look the traditional 81-square Sudoku grid as being only one grid, there are essentially nine grids comprised of separate three by three grids that make up the overall game grid.
The concept of Sudoku is place numbers from one to nine in each block of the larger Sudoku grid without using the same number twice in any of the nine rows or columns, as well as not repeating the number in any of the smaller three block rows and columns that comprise the larger Sudoku grid.
Although many strategies have been developed and shared to help people solve Sudoku puzzles, they still present a challenge to even the most advanced players. Sudoku is typically a single-player game that relies on concentration and logical thinking in order to fill the Sudoku grid with the appropriate numbers in the shortest amount of time. However, some of the more advanced players have also made changes to the simple Sudoku grid to make the game more challenging.
Super Grids Offer Brain Bending Challenges
Some of the alterations to the Sudoku grid include using as many as five separate grids assimilated into one larger grid to make the most difficult puzzles. For example, the grid begins as a single 81-block square with four more grids made part of the playing board, intertwined in the center. The resulting Sudoku grid will have the bottom right grid of one puzzle overlapping the upper right of the first puzzle, with subsequent grid placed in opposite corners.
The rules do change, even with the use of the increased sized Sudoku grid and no numbers can be repeated. Some players view each grid as a separate Sudoku grid but in the end quickly realize that some of their numbers will be duplicated and have to take another tact to solve the more difficult puzzles.
Different levels of difficulty are achieved by the number of numbers given for the start of the puzzle. Some puzzles will offer as many as 30 numbers filled out in the Sudoku grid to make a relatively easy puzzle while others offer as few as 11 numbers to mark the beginning of a difficult puzzle.
