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 ...

The rules of Sudoku dictate that every row, column and 3×3 bolded box in the completed grid must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. A surprising fact emerges from these simple rules. In ...

For those who are puzzled by math problems, a New Jersey college professor has published a book he believes will make the numbers less baffling. David Nacin, a professor of mathematics at William ...

Recreational math may sound like an oxymoron, but it is David Nacin’s guiding principle. Nacin is a former college deejay, yoga devotee and a 14-year mathematics professor at William Paterson ...

Sudoku are deceptively simple-looking puzzles that require no math, spelling or language skills. Unlike crosswords, they don’t require an extensive knowledge of trivia. They’re logic, pure and simple.

I’ve mentioned subscribing to the WSJ, Detroit Free Press, and The Morning Sun. Each has a page that includes games of various sorts such as words, facts, mazes. The latter two papers include Sudoku.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

Starting today on The Standard’s puzzle page on Page B13 you will find a Sudoku (pronounced soo-doe-koo) puzzle. Sudoku will run Monday through Saturday in the classified section of the paper. The ...