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Soduko was first published in 1979
by Dell Magazines. The game was originally called Number
Place and appeared in the magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles
and Word Games.
Soduko appeared in Japan in 1984 in the
paper Monthly Nikolist. It was initially called Suuji
wa dokushin ni kagiru, but was later abbreviated to
simply Soduko. Nikoli still holds the trademark for
the name Soduko within Japan.
In 1997, a New Zealander named Wayne Gould
started to develop a computer program to automatically
produce soduko puzzles. He promoted Soduko in England
and the Times newspaper carried a puzzle in it’s
paper in November 2004. By mid-2005 soduko puzzles had
been introduced into a number of British newspapers.
The huge popularity of Soduko in British newspapers
and internationally in 2005 has made it the fastest
growing puzzle in the world.
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