How to play free printable sudoku puzzles

How to Play Sudoku
By Judeline Meintjes

Here's one of the ways that I play Sudoku.

The objective of Sudoku is to place the digits 1 through 9 along a row without duplicating them, in such a way that each row is different.

This also means that each column must follow suit. Neither must duplicate a number - only one digit per row and one per column and, understandably, one number per box.

Let's name the various areas of the puzzle so we understand each other. A row is a line across the page from your left to your right. A column is a line from the top of the page to the bottom. A blank is a place where you can write, or pencil in, a digit between 1 and 9. A square consists of nine blanks, generally marked by a darker line around the group. Sudoku consists of nine squares and each square has nine blanks.

To play Sudoku, go from row to row, and then column to column, and do this over and over till your puzzle is complete.

Starting at the first row, look for a number that is missing. Maybe you'll find a 1 or a 2 in that row, then maybe there are no 3s. (Each Sudoku puzzle is different and we're generalizing here.) If there are no 3s in the row you will need to put one in a blank. Taking note of the first blank, see if there is another 3 in the square that includes that blank. If so, you cannot add another 3 to that square, so go to the next blank in the same row. If you find that there is more than one blank where you can write your 3, forget it. Try the next number. Move on.

If you're stuck, do the same with the columns, one by one, and place digits in the columns following exactly the same formula. Look for a blank, decide which number in that column (or row) can possibly go there without being duplicated and see if the number you want to pencil in is duplicated within the square that surrounds that blank. If so, do not duplicate it. Try another number.

Sudoku is really fun. Everyone can count from 1 to 9 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. We all understand what duplicate means. It means the same. And, as long as we stick to the rules, the game is rather simple, just a little baffling, until you get the hang of it.

Enjoy your Sudoku puzzle.

To learn more about Sudoku, visit http://www.judeline.com As I write more articles and find more information, I'll be adding to that web page. Judeline Meintjes, from Interlachen, Florida, USA, is part owner of a company called JoeJude Enterprises.

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100000 of Free Printable Sudoku Puzzles

Check out below are list of free printable sudoku puzzles. You will find hundred thousands of sudoku puzzles that you can enjoy them for years. The website that I show below are all free!!

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Sudoku Collection
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Sudokube

Sodukube: the 3D Sudoku

The free printable sudoku puzzles that you see in the Internet and in the book are only 2D or only width * length Sudoku. However, for those who have done Sudoku for a long time might want to do something more advance and more challenge.

You can try the 3D Sudoku or we call Sudokube. Sudoku looks similar to Rubik but you don't need to have the same color in the same but you need to have identical number from 1 to 9 in each face of the rubik.

The skill used to solve sudokube is almost the same as rubik's. If you are familiar with Rubik you should be able to solve Sudokube as well.

Sudokube is not a new thing. It's just an applied idea to make your sudoku more challenging. Most of all, it looks really cool when you play the Sudokube in public place. At least, it looks a lot cooler than obsessing yourself with the 2D free printable sudoku puzzles. Don't you think so?

History of Sudoku

Before we start the free printable sudoku puzzles, let's get to know about sudoku first.

Sudoku is, as you may know, a Japanese name meaning "number must be used only one time" or "Single Number." Even though we use Japanese name to call this game but Sudoku was first inventred by American guy name Howard Garns in 1979 to publish in Dell Magazine.

Then, in 1986 Sudoku becomes very popular when the puzzle company Nikoli Co., Ltd. published this game and call it Sudoku. The Japanese really like the puzzle and it was getting globally popular in the last few decades. Today, Sudoku comes in many form. It could be in a puzzle booklet, a mobile phone, a column in the newspaper or magazine or a free printable sudoku puzzles form on the Internet.

Now that we know where Sudoku comes from, we are more ready with a bunch of free printable sudoku puzzles which I will provide you soon.