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My Days Are Numbered
An article by Seth Stevenson offering a brief overview of Sudoku.
http://www.slate.com/id/2119796
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Sudoku.com
Includes an overview of how Sudoku is solved, a monthly contest and a downloadable Sudoku game. Also includes a kids section and discussion forums.
http://www.sudoku.com/
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Sudoku Online
Includes Sudoku tips and strategies as well as a downloadable game and a 3D Sudoku puzzle.
http://www.sudoku.org.uk/
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Wikipedia: Sudoku
An encyclopedia entry describing the rules, history, strategies and variants of Sudoku. Notes that these are a type of "latin square" which have been analyzed since ancient times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
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Maths Is Fun
Offers a number of applications and solvers for a variety of platforms. Also offers custom puzzles.
http://www.mathsisfun.net/puzzles.htm
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The Economist: Do you sudoku?
Article on the puzzle's popularity in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3992476
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Minimum Sudoku
A project collecting Sudoku with the smallest number of givens that are still uniquely solvable. Offers the puzzle for download in text format.
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~gordon/sudokumin.php
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Sky One
Information on UK-based cellular provider's world-record largest Sudoku puzzle and accompanying contest.
http://www.skyone.co.uk/programme/pgefeature.aspx?pid=48&fid=129
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BBC News: The puzzling popularity of Su Doku
Article by Paula Dear. Covers history in Japan and the UK and compares to the Rubik's cube craze of the 80s.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4469719.stm
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Hirofumi Fujiwara's Sudoku
Offers a tutorial for creating puzzles, a Java-based solver, and links to other resources. [English/Japanese]
http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/index-eng.html
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