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 Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:02 pm
I'm not a big Sudoku player, but when I get bored enough I do it sometimes. I was just wondering if it's popular in Japan, too. Anyone know? If you don't know what Sudoku is, here's some information: Quote: Sudoku (数独, sūdoku), also known as Number Place or Nanpure, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter the digits 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions") so that each row, column, and region contains exactly one instance of each digit. A set of clues, or "givens", constrain the puzzle such that there is only one way to correctly fill in the remainder. Here's one (I'll put the solution to it in the next post, don't cheat! :3) 
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:03 pm
Solution:
5 3 4 | 6 7 8 | 9 1 2
6 7 2 | 1 9 5 | 3 4 8
1 9 8 | 3 4 2 | 5 6 7
-------+-------+------
8 5 9 | 7 6 1 | 4 2 3
4 2 6 | 8 5 3 | 7 9 1
7 1 3 | 9 2 4 | 8 5 6
-------+-------+------
9 6 1 | 5 3 7 | 2 8 4
2 8 7 | 4 1 9 | 6 3 5
3 4 5 | 2 8 6 | 1 7 9
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:49 pm
sudoku, is popular in japan, but here it is usually called ナンプレ
it is NOT a japanese invention, and is in fact chinese, and then changed by the west and given a japanese name ot make it sound cool. it has no connection with japan at all.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:19 pm
Aiko_589 sudoku, is popular in japan, but here it is usually called ナンプレ it is NOT a japanese invention, and is in fact chinese, and then changed by the west and given a japanese name ot make it sound cool. it has no connection with japan at all. I know, I was just asking if it was still popular in Japan. According to a sudoku website, it was made by a guy nameed Howard Garns... hmm. Here: Quote: The modern puzzle Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979 by Howard Garns. Garns' puzzles appeared in Dell Magazines, which published them under the title "Number Place". Sudoku became popular in Japan in 1986, when puzzle publisher Nikoli discovered the game in older Dell publications. The puzzles became an international hit in 2005. And sudoku is indeed a Japanese name here's from another website: Quote: The name "Sudoku" is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru" (数字は独身に限る, "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru"?), meaning "the digits must occur only once"[1][2][3][4][5][6]. It is a trademark of puzzle publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd. in Japan.[7] In Japanese, the word is pronounced [sɯːdokɯ]; in English, it is usually spoken with an Anglicised pronunciation, [səˈdəʊkuː] Interesting, ne? ^^
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:22 pm
SuzumikoChan Aiko_589 sudoku, is popular in japan, but here it is usually called ナンプレ it is NOT a japanese invention, and is in fact chinese, and then changed by the west and given a japanese name ot make it sound cool. it has no connection with japan at all. I know, I was just asking if it was still popular in Japan. According to a sudoku website, it was made by a guy nameed Howard Garns... hmm. Here: Quote: The modern puzzle Sudoku was invented in Indianapolis in 1979 by Howard Garns. Garns' puzzles appeared in Dell Magazines, which published them under the title "Number Place". Sudoku became popular in Japan in 1986, when puzzle publisher Nikoli discovered the game in older Dell publications. The puzzles became an international hit in 2005. And sudoku is indeed a Japanese name here's from another website: Quote: The name "Sudoku" is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru" (数字は独身に限る, "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru"?), meaning "the digits must occur only once"[1][2][3][4][5][6]. It is a trademark of puzzle publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd. in Japan.[7] In Japanese, the word is pronounced [sɯːdokɯ]; in English, it is usually spoken with an Anglicised pronunciation, [səˈdəʊkuː] Interesting, ne? ^^ I know, but it is normally called ナンプレ！
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:32 pm
Omoishire nee. Nanpuru desu ka.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:40 pm
It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:44 pm
Angel_of_Confusion It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd You need to study more it says nanpure, and im shopping in chiba-shi or narita-shi, chiba-ken. would you like to know my blood type and skin tint as well? *angered sarcasm*
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:06 pm
Aiko_589 Angel_of_Confusion It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd You need to study more it says nanpure, and im shopping in chiba-shi or narita-shi, chiba-ken. would you like to know my blood type and skin tint as well? *angered sarcasm* Nanpure is short for "Number Place", I believe, Angel. Eheheh. 無視... Yeah, study.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:19 pm
SuzumikoChan Aiko_589 Angel_of_Confusion It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd You need to study more it says nanpure, and im shopping in chiba-shi or narita-shi, chiba-ken. would you like to know my blood type and skin tint as well? *angered sarcasm* Nanpure is short for "Number Place", I believe, Angel. Eheheh. 無視... Yeah, study. close, but no. its short for "number play"
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:34 pm
Aiko_589 SuzumikoChan Aiko_589 Angel_of_Confusion It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd You need to study more it says nanpure, and im shopping in chiba-shi or narita-shi, chiba-ken. would you like to know my blood type and skin tint as well? *angered sarcasm* Nanpure is short for "Number Place", I believe, Angel. Eheheh. 無視... Yeah, study. close, but no. its short for "number play" Wow, really? Originally I posted "Number Play" (off of my own guess), but I changed it a minute or 2 later to "Number Place", because I re-read my original post with the info from the websites. At least my guess was right. Like they always say, stick with the first thought, not the second.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:41 pm
Aiko_589 Angel_of_Confusion It's called nanpuru? sweatdrop Lol!Were the heck are you shopping? xd You need to study more it says nanpure, and im shopping in chiba-shi or narita-shi, chiba-ken. would you like to know my blood type and skin tint as well? *angered sarcasm* My bad!My bad!Honest mistake!Don't kill me!*Cringes in fear of danger to come* gonk gonk I meant to put that, but probably won't believe me since I put it twice... sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:33 pm
Aa, sudoku became very popular in England, also. I like it, especially that you don't have to be good with numbers to do it. I suck at math.
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:07 pm
something that i found is something called a Kakuro, which, according to it's website, is the Sudoku's bigger, badder brother here's a sample: The way it works, is that the clues are across and down, and you have to add up to the clue, using the numbers 1-9. one can also play online at http://www.kakurolive.com/
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:14 pm
Kakuro? Oooh, I wouldn't want to play that. Unless somebody would tell me exactly what to do.
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