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The Number Puzzle has exploded
into the popular consciousness of Western culture in the last few years.
It has gone from an obscure
Japanese game to a mass addiction. Virtually every newspaper and magazine
carries a Number Puzzle these days and the bookshelves are positively littered
with Number Puzzle books.
If you are a serious addict,
you can even buy programs for your computer to create a seemingly infinite
number of Number Puzzles.
Though how many people know where this fiendishly addictive game came from?
Some, I am sure, believe it originated in the warped mind of a newspaper puzzle
creator, but its actual origins are much older. |
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The Number
Puzzle was born in the 18th century in Japan, though some say it was China. It
is a logic based puzzle known in the USA as Number Place, which translates as
Nanpure in Japanese.
The word Sudoku TM - a contraction of a longer phrase 'suuji wa dokushin ni
kagiru' (数字は独身に限る) which means
'the digits must remain single' - is actually
trademarked by the puzzle publisher Nikoli Ltd in Japan. Hence the references to
the puzzle as Number Place by some publishers. In this publication, we refer to
the puzzle as the Number Puzzle to avoid any possible trademark infringement.
The Number Puzzle itself draws upon the theory of magic squares, which were held
in high regard by earlier cultures such as the ancient Greeks, Chinese and
Babylonians.
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