Sudoku certainly seems to have a right to make a claim for full-fledged craze status: ... In 1997, retired New Zealander Wayne Gould noticed a Japanese Sudoku book and was intrigued.

Maki Kaji, known as the “Godfather of Sudoku,” has died at the age of 69 from bile duct cancer. Kaji did not invent Sudoku; variations of the game appeared in French newspapers in the 19th ...

Chambers and Penguin have published books titled “Beyond Sudoku” and “The Monster Book of Japanese Puzzles” respectively. And many more puzzles are available online, including some here.

Sudoku's earliest known appearance was in the United States, in a 1979 issue of the magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games. It caught on in Japan after a publisher in that country began to ...

Maki Kaji, a puzzle enthusiast and publisher who was known as the "Godfather of Sudoku" - the number puzzle played daily by millions around the world - has died, his company said. A university ...

.com offers nearly 200 sudoku books. So, with a name like sudoku, is it a Japanese puzzle? Not ... In Japan, though, number puzzles are far more popular than word puzzles.

Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids ...

Sudoku books – pages and pages ... “I don’t read or write or speak Japanese so there wasn’t much that I recognized,” he told The Associated Press from his vacation home in Phuket, Thailand.

Morinishi is the first Japanese to win the tournament and bring the title to the country where sudoku, the numerical puzzle featuring a 9-by-9 grid, was popularized in the 1980s.

Morinishi is the first Japanese to win the tournament and bring the title to the country where sudoku, the numerical puzzle featuring a 9-by-9 grid, was popularized in the 1980s.