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What is the history of this great logic puzzle?

Well, we have already seen what the word sudoku means.

Tracing the origin is a little harder, and ultimately comes down to how strict we are being. If we are talking literally about sudoku, then the answer is very recent.

However, if we are talking about number games in general from which sudoku might be thought to be derived, then the answer is a little different.

That's because the idea of the Magic Square has been around for many centuries, and it could have been these which sparked the idea for sudoku - they are in a sense related.

Additionally, Euler developed the Latin Square, another relation. Moving to the present era, a similar puzzle called Number Place appeared in American magazines in the 1970s.

It is believed the first true sudoku puzzle in the stricter sense is indeed very recent, appearing in Nikoli magazine in Japan.

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