Sudoku is arguably one of the best ways to spend a cold, rainy night at home by yourself. Solving a nine-by-nine sudoku square is a deeply satisfying — and often challenging — experience, and it’s for ...

Get started solving the classic number puzzle with tips from some of the best solvers in the world. By Isaac Aronow Everybody can solve a hard Sudoku. Maybe not right now, maybe not without some ...

Daily puzzlers would be quick to tell you that sudoku, Wordle’s mathematical cousin, is not as easy as it looks. The small grid, found often next to a word scramble or comic strip in a print newspaper ...

TOKYO — Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duct cancer.

When you get stuck on a fiendishly difficult sudoku, it’s hard not to wonder if the puzzle really has a solution. At another moment, aglow in the triumph of a clever deduction, you might have a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is nothing obviously hasty about sudoku, that newspaper staple of the quiet coffee-break, but its name ...

Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess). Competitors at the World ...

Maki Kaji knew better than most that the simple joys are sometimes the most fulfilling, even if they come in the form of numbers and squares. Kaji was a man who loved watching and betting on horse ...