They baffle, delight, and frustrate millions of people around the world on a daily basis. But even the most dedicated Sudoku-solver might have never spotted this secret pattern. Mathematicians have ...

Sudoku is a logic-based number puzzle played on a 9x9 grid, divided into nine 3x3 subgrids. The goal is to fill the grid so that each row, column, and 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 exactly ...

The game’s most devoted solvers have unlocked creativity and complexity in the classic logic game. By Elie Levine and Sam Corbin Sudoku is like any other logic puzzle, in that it relies on deductive ...

The researchers gave AI models 2,300 six-by-six Sudokus (which are more simple than the nine-by-nine games most humans play). Then it set the AI loose, asking five different models to solve them ...