International Sudoku Day 2023: Date, History, Significance, How To Celebrate

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International Sudoku Day is celebrated on September 9 each year. Sudoku is a popular number puzzle game that challenges players to fill a 9x9 grid with numbers so that each row, column, and the nine 3x3 subgrids (called "regions" or "boxes") contains all the digits from 1 to 9 without any repetition.

International Sudoku Day 2023: History

The World Puzzle Federation made September 9 the official International Sudoku Day in the year 2013 but the history of the game dates long ago.

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In 1892, the French newspaper "La Siècle" introduced a puzzle game similar to Sudoku, where every row and column needed to include a set of specified numbers. However, this game differed from Sudoku.In 1979, Howard Garns, an architect from Indiana published a puzzle that he called "Number Place," It was later destined to evolve into the globally recognised Sudoku.

In 1997, Wayne Gould, a Hong Kong judge, developed a computer program capable of generating original Sudoku puzzles. He presented the game to U.K. newspapers as a daily puzzle feature, and before long, Sudoku became a worldwide phenomenon.

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