Sudoku Has Certainly Grown In Popularity But Has The Fad Begun To Die Out?
If you want to succeed at solving Sudoku you must be good at using logic because it is a puzzle that can best be solved through logical thinking and in fact, there is no math involved. Once you start playing this exciting game you will soon become addicted to it which is also one of the reasons why this puzzle game has become so popular in the past few years.
Magic Squares
If you are interested in learning the history of Sudoku, and then you only need to look at the game known as Magic Squares that was an early inspiration behind the creation of this puzzle. In fact, Magic Squares really involved groups of numbers needing to be arranged in a square with the condition that the sum of each row and column as well as sometimes, the diagonal of the square should total exactly the same and this at the time seemed to be something that was almost magical.
Thus, the real history of Sudoku goes back many centuries and spans two distinct cultures that each are laying claim to having invented the puzzle. Be that as it may, in truth Magic Squares has little to do with Sudoku and apart from striking similarities in the two types of puzzles, there is nothing else that is relevant to each. However, the puzzle known as Latin Squares is more closely associated with Sudoku.
In fact, the first instance of Sudoku can only be traced to the year 1979 when Dell Magazine published the first such puzzle though it wasn't at the time known by its present name, and in fact it was then known as Number Place which in turn was inspired by Latin Square.
The puzzle actually only got to be called Sudoku only after it was published in Monthly Nikolist and even then it was called "Suuji wa dokushin ni kaguru" which was abbreviated to simple Sudoku that in turn means "single or unwed number". Since this instance that took place in 1984, Sudoku has gained so much popularity that it now is even being offered as a computer game which as a matter of fact has made it possible to even create these puzzles differently as well as a lot quicker by using computer algorithms. Hence, there is no longer any need for much human effort and the chances of mistakes creeping up in the puzzle are also considerably lesser.
Today, Sudoku is a virtual household name and it is widely available at online forums, websites, blogs and even a number of different kinds of products are being sold that are dedicated solely to Sudoku. However, this fad may not last for very long as this can be gauged from the fact that it is currently only ranked as eighth in the ranking of most searched for items on the Internet.
