On one level, sudoku is a simple and fun way to pass the time and keep the brain ticking – but dig deeper, and some fiendishly clever math patterns reveal themselves. The most recent to blow our minds ...

Regular practice is the key to improving your Sudoku-solving skills. The more you play, the better you get at spotting ...

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 ...

If you are hooked on Sudoku - the puzzle where you fill numbers in on a grid - the man you have to blame is a Japanese publisher who unleashed it on an unsuspecting world. Maki Kaji collects new ...