April 20th, 2009
Two Filipino students beat more than 100 contestants to emerge as champion and first runner-up in an international Sudoku competition held in Bangkok, Thailand, over the weekend. John Robert Valcos, 17, a college student of St. Mary’s College in …
source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/youth/04/20/09/2-pinoy-students-win-sudoko-tournament-thailand
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April 17th, 2009
Laura Taalman and Phil Riley own a bright, quiet home just past the old high school in Harrisonburg, where they live with their 4-year-old son, Calvin, and four cats. Taalman, 36, is a math professor at James Madison University; Riley, 37, writes …
source: http://www.dailynews-record.com/saturdaymagazine_details.php?AID=37011&sub=Feature
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April 17th, 2009
Simon ays: You aren’t human if you didn’t get a lump in your throat when you saw the video of Ted Kennedy throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park the other day. • • The latest New York Times-CBS poll asked people how they voted in the last …
source: http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/1522485,CST-EDT-simon12.article
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April 17th, 2009
An example of KenKen, a math puzzle in the style of Sudoku, filled out by TH reporter Erik Hogstrom. From kenken.com Web site. 4/8/2009. It looks like a puzzle but can feel like a math test. Harder than Sudoku? It can be. Seems like the Japanese have …
source: http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=239264
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April 17th, 2009
Come back today at 11 a.m. to see the new games page on news-press.com. The new games page will include card games, Sudoku, sports games and more. Each month we’ll feature a different game. Click on the game, give it a try and then give it a thumbs …
source: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?NoCache=1&Dato=20090415&Kategori=ENT&Lopenr=90415036&Ref=AR
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April 17th, 2009
We may not have paperless offices yet, but old-time pencil-and-paper pastimes have gone digital with a vengeance. The Web has made everything from the venerable New York Times and Times of London crossword puzzles to such popular favorites as Jumble …
source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/162970/great_pencilandpaper_pastimes_online.html
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April 5th, 2009
35 — seconds it took for him to come up with the game’s Japanese name (”su” means number; “doku” means single); 0 — trademarks that Kaji secured before his game was reproduced around the world. “Some friends said, ‘Maki, you should have trademarked …
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402873.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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April 5th, 2009
Ten teens from the Madison area will compete for the title of Sudoku Master in a tournament at Madison Area Technical College on Friday morning. This will be the second “Who Wants to be a Sudoku Master?” competition at MATC. The first was held in …
source: http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/latest/445440
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March 31st, 2009
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Tip - If you want to print the Sudoku puzzle, right-click on the Sudoku image and choose the command “Print Picture…” from the appearing pop-up menu. Doing …
source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10563844
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March 26th, 2009
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Tip - If you want to print the Sudoku puzzle, right-click on the Sudoku image and choose the command “Print Picture…” from the appearing pop-up menu. Doing …
source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10562648
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