Sudoku: 300 Intermediate level puzzles 8.5 x 11 book# 3
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Sudoku: 300 Intermediate level puzzles 8.5 x 11 book# 3
Number puzzles appeared in newspapers in the late 19th century, when French puzzle setters began experimenting with removing numbers from magic squares. Le Si?cle, a Paris daily, published a partially completed 9?9 magic square with 3?3 subsquares on November 19, 1892.[7] It was not a Sudoku because it contained double-digit numbers and required arithmetic rather than logic to solve, but it shared key characteristics: each row, column and subsquare added up to the same number.
On July 6, 1895, Le Si?cle's rival, La France, refined the puzzle so that it was almost a modern Sudoku and named it carr? magique diabolique ('evil magic square'). It simplified the 9?9 magic square puzzle so that each row, column, and broken diagonals contained only the numbers 1-9, but did not mark the subsquares. Although they are unmarked, each 3?3 subsquare does indeed comprise the numbers 1-9 and the additional constraint on the broken diagonals leads to only one solution.[8]
These weekly puzzles were a feature of French newspapers such as L'?cho de Paris for about a decade, but disappeared about the time of World War I.[9]