The most Sudokulike puzzle, Kakuro, traveled the same route as its cousin, first appearing in Dell magazines in the ... other games (Amazon lists 420 books for Sudoku puzzles and one for Yubotu).

American Howard Garns in 1979 invented sudoku as we know it, and published it originally as a puzzle in Dell Magazines with the name "Numbers in Place." Maki Kaji of Japan then published the grid ...

A public transport novice, I found it hard to focus on books or articles, for fear I’d miss my stop. But sudoku allowed my mind to easily toggle back and forth between the puzzle page and the ...

I had to humbly admit that I had never heard of Sudoku. When the reporter explained the puzzle however ... the first time in the May 1979 issue of Dell Pencil Puzzles and Crossword Games magazine.