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).

Dell begins running new puzzles ... Gould will have sold more than 4 million Sudoku books. "Tricky Ricky Kane" is a pen name for longtime puzzle creator Mark Danna, assistant to the puzzle editor ...

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 ...

Whether you are in for a light diversion for your downtime, or you want to shake the dust off your brain, puzzle books are a great way to get sharp and stay sharp. If you're just getting into ...

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 ...