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Sudoku Puzzles Have some fun playing Sudoku Puzzles - a fun Christmas activity and boredom buster for the festive season and holidays. Full information and instructions provided to play and have some festive fun with useful hints and tips. We have detailed the objective and the instructions for our collection of printable Sudoku Puzzles. Sudoku is a great game to test your skills and exercise your brain! Print your free Activity Sheets, pass them round and have some fun! What are Sudoku Puzzles? Sudoku means single number in Japanese. Sudoku is a number based logic puzzle which is growing in popularity. The puzzles can vary in difficulty depending of the number of pre-completed cells. Usually Sudoku grids are 9 rows by 9 columns, a 12 x 12 format, but puzzles with different size grids also exist. Sudoku Puzzles - Perfect for Kids, Children and Adults! Sudoku Puzzles require no calculations or math skills! It is a game of placing numbers in squares, using very simple rules of logic and deduction. It can be played by kids, children, teens and adults and the rules are simple to learn! We have included simple instructions on how to play Sudoku Puzzles. Objective of Sudoku Puzzles The objective of these math problem games is to fill all the blank squares in a game with the correct numbers. The numbers used in Sudoku puzzles are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Initially some of the cells are completed. An example is as follows: | | | 1 | 3 | 8 | | | 9 | 9 | 1 | 5 | | 7 | | | | 3 | | | | 5 | | 9 | | | 6 | | | | 2 | | 4 | | 8 | | 2 | 4 | | | | | | 6 | 5 | | 8 | | 6 | | 7 | 9 | | | 7 | | | 3 | | 2 | | | | 3 | | | | 6 | | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | | | 9 | 4 | 1 | | | |
How to Play Sudoku Puzzles The instructions on how to play Sudoku puzzles and games are as follows: The rows and columns of Sudoku puzzles make up 9 mini grids which are shown by a thick border Every row, every column and every mini grid of a completed puzzle contain nine different numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9) which are not repeated To solve Sudoku puzzles all of the empty cells need to be completed Every row of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order Every column of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order Every 3 by 3 mini grid of the 9 by 9 square must include all digits 1 through 9
The following example shows a completed Sudoku puzzle and indicates a mini grid by the shaded area. 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
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Test your Skills with our Sudoku Puzzles Test your skills with our printable Sudoku Puzzles! Our selection has been categorised into easy, hard and downright fiendish Sudoku puzzles. Click a link for a fully printable puzzle activity sheet! Enjoy! Answers to our Sudoku Puzzles The solution and answers to each of our easy, hard and fiendish Sudoku puzzles have been detailed separately from the Activity sheets for obvious reasons! Sudoku Puzzles The puzzle name is often spelt incorrectly as "Soduko", “Su Doku” or "Sudoko." We hope that each of our fast and easy math problems will give you some ideas for having some quiet fun and relaxation during the hectic holidays this Christmas! Good Luck! |