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 ...

Sudoku has exploded in popularity over the past few years. It now runs in many newspapers on a daily basis, and sudoku puzzle collections can be found in bookstores everywhere. In the June/July issue ...

For those who are puzzled by math problems, a New Jersey college professor has published a book he believes will make the numbers less baffling. David Nacin, a professor of mathematics at William ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Math Sudoku Test your math skills and solve the puzzles using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Math Sudoku combines Sudoku and Math which ...

When you get stuck on a fiendishly difficult sudoku, it’s hard not to wonder if the puzzle really has a solution. At another moment, aglow in the triumph of a clever deduction, you might have a ...

The global fascination with Sudoku has led to a sudden interest in the mathematical properties of the puzzle. In the last few months on this blog, we’ve looked at how mathematicians have solved the ...

Sometimes, during interviews, there is a moment when everything clicks. This happens when the interviewee produces an unexpectedly profound anecdote, or performs an action that reveals something about ...

Some of our readers will recall the fiendishly difficult particle physics Sudoku puzzle I created for the June/July 2007 issue of symmetry. As Sudoku has taken off in popularity, a new area of ...