Daily puzzlers would be quick to tell you that sudoku, Wordle’s mathematical cousin, is not as easy as it looks. The small grid, found often next to a word scramble or comic strip in a print newspaper ...

Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess). Competitors at the World ...

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The rules of Sudoku dictate that every row, column and 3×3 bolded box in the completed grid must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. A surprising fact emerges from these simple rules. In ...

Play the New York Post’s daily hard-level Sudoku puzzle online. See if you can fill in each square with a number 1-9, without repeating any number within each ...

The researchers gave AI models 2,300 six-by-six Sudokus (which are more simple than the nine-by-nine games most humans play). Then it set the AI loose, asking five different models to solve them ...