Where do you get your sudoku fix?数独

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Newspapers

Hundreds of newspapers publish sudoku, including the following. When offered, the links go to the puzzle page; otherwise, to the newspaper's home page.



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• The Boston Globe
• Chicago Sun-Times
• Chicago Tribune
• The Dallas Morning News
• Detroit Free Press
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Post
• Newsday
• The Seattle Times
• The Washington Post
• USA Today
• The Vancouver Sun
• The Puzzle Player
• The Ottawa Citizen
  
• www.sudoku.com
• www.msnbc.com
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• www.google.com/sudoku puzzles
• http://www.websudoku.com/
• www.sudoku-ball.com
• The News & Observer
• www.paulspages.co.uk
  

Books

Sudoku sections have mushroomed at booksellers since 2005, featuring titles from the following. Be sure to add your recommendations, too.

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Sudoku for Dummies

Sudoko for Dummies show you how to play and help you develop strategy at a price for 8.99$. Or, go to Costco and purchase it for only 5.99$ There diffuclty ratings are from Easy to Diabotically Difficult.

Lulu - Print-on-demand
Lulu prints your book when you order it. Or, you can download the file and print it yourself.

Dell Magazines
Inexpensive newsstand puzzle collections from the original publisher of Number Place -- sudoku before it was called sudoku.

Michael Mepham
This oft-unheralded sudoku whiz offers several collections in a range of difficulty levels, most with instructions and tips. Published by Time, Inc.

Presented by Will Shortz
Though the staid New York Times doesn't publish sudokus, the paper's crossword editor, Will Shortz, is an expert on the puzzles and lends his name to several titles from St. Martin's Griffin.

Sterling Publishing
Wide selection of puzzles and books geared toward learners and experts. Some books even feature daunting 25-by-25 megasudokus.

Online

Playing sudoku electronically is different from pencil and paper, and can be more difficult, mainly because you can't write down helper numbers. Most programs enable users to print puzzles.

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Chainki
A collection of Sudoku links.


Fiendish Sudoku
A great site for daily puzzles that range from Easy to Fiendish. It has great print features if you want to take the puzzle with you. The best aspect is that it steps through solutions so that you can learn tricks on how to solve them.

Free Daily Sudoku
A new sudoku puzzle every day to play through your browser. This site also features a massive archive of over 100,000 puzzles, alphabet sudoku, samurai sudoku puzzles and some kids sudokus.

Free Online Solver
A great site where you can use an online solver, or download a sudoku solver for free to solve any given sudoku puzzle!

The Puzzle Player
SUDOKU is the latest puzzle craze. Play Sudoku the Japanese numbers game that's driving everybody mad. We guarantee that once you've tried one SUDOKU puzzle, you'll be hooked.

Cellufun
A free subscription at this site will zap sudoku puzzles to your cell phone. Solutions are scored; compare yours with other players.

The Daily Telegraph, London
Every day, Sudoku generator Michael Mepham provides a free daily puzzle, which you can play online or print out to complete with a pencil.

Miniclip
This games site includes three new sudoku puzzles each day: easy, medium, and hard.

Sudoku.com
This Hong Kong-based site from sudoku's "stepfather" Wayne Gould sells a computer program for download that generates an endless supply of puzzles for the truly addicted.

Sudoku-Ball.com Sudoku-Ball™ is unique version of the Sudoku puzzle. The unique challenge is to solve a 14

Samurai Sudoku network on a spherical object such that the entire network is closed in all directions. The game is powered by Java3D

SudokuCraving.com
Excellent Web 2.0 sudoku community with a new puzzle every day and a ranking system!


Sudoku Fun
English programmer James Pitts offers timed competitive puzzling at one of the first sudoku sites. The site also features links and resources.

Sudoku Madness
Provides puzzles, as well as tips and tools for solving them.

The Telegraph, Calcutta
Slick, virtual sudoku applet for online puzzling. Be warned: The timer starts the second your browser loads the page.

New Scientist Daily Sudoku
One untimed puzzle per day, by Mark Huckvale. Will offer solution for next square (one at a time) if needed.


The Times Online
From the London newspaper that started the craze, a jolly good sudoku site with loads of interactive and printable puzzles. Plus, sudoku in the news.


Web Sudoku
Terrific place to play online, with a straightforward interface and the option to select level of difficulty and whether you want to be timed. Printable puzzlers. You can even challenge friends via email, once you have solved a puzzle.

Sudoku Pro
Over a thousand puzzles that you can play online with a new one added ever hour.

Sudoku Combat
Play Sudoku online against other players. See who solves the sudoku first. Includes options for level of difficulty.

Ultimate Sudoku
Simple and elegant flash site with many play and solve options.

Infoganza
Play online Sudoku and many more puzzles!

Count to Nine
Great site and easy to print out games for when you are on the move..(deadhippo)

Free Sudoku Puzzles
Javascript based online sudoku puzzles.

Clubs and Contests

The solitary nature of sudoku appeals to many. But when you're ready to compete or share notes with others, consider one of these.

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The Daily Telegraph, London
E-mail your solution to the day's puzzle to enter the contest.

Puzzles.com
Site dedicated to brainteasers of all types, Puzzles.com includes sudoku contest news.

World Puzzle Federation
In March 2006, this Netherlands-based organization hosted in Italy the first World Sudoku Championship.

United States Sudoku Association
A young organization starting to organize tournaments across the United States.

World Sudoku Championship
Official site of "the Olympics of sudoku," won in 2006 by 31-year-old Czech economist Jana Tylova.

Electronic games

Nintendo DS offers Sudoku in two games: Brain Age and Sudoku Gridmaster.


See also:

• Solving Strategies
• Stumped and Stumpers
  

• Sudoku 101
• The History of Sudoku

You can find sudoku games from a variety of sources, including online web sites and daily newspapers. Some sites are:

• Web Sudoku
• Sudoku Online
• Sudoku in UK