Rattle Your Mind with an Electronic Sudoku

Notwithstanding Sudoku latest explosion in fame, the puzzle game has been in existence for so many years. Thus, it is somewhat astonishing that no one has ever troubled to manufacture an electronic version which is handheld. Well, do you know that these fun gadgets are now available commercially? Amazing, isn’t it?

Electronic Sudoku, as you might have guessed, is the portable handheld LCD replica of the world’s loved number puzzle game. It offers a same addictive effect as with the published puzzle game in any newspaper worldwide. The only variation is that your mitts won’t be made much of a grimy or be abstracted by folio of your non-stories while you’re playing.

If you are going through this article and speculating if Electronic Sudoku turns into a portable radio maneuvered space dog, edible blazing scorpions or DVD player, the answer is definitely no. hence, why do some electronic stores are selling it? It is because Sudoku is in fact is as absurdly convincing as people say and that Electronic Sudoku may perhaps not feature diving and bombing extra terrestrial aliens as well as mallet-jolly plumbers, however, Electronic Sudoku is just like the unpardonable as King Kong and the world’s dinosaurs.

Initially, the aim of Sudoku is to decipher mind-boggling number mysteries and access your solution formulas on a crossword approach grid. Well, people know that sound regard as fascinating as uhm, cracking number brainteasers played in a crossword-approach grid. The instant you begin playing you will be definitely desperately hooked.

The Electronic Sudoku gadget basically includes a memory function for the game state and highest score recording, an automatic answer adjustment and a sleep mode.

Certainly, the Electronic Sudoku has overwhelmed people a lot much the store’s are selling two diverse versions. The first one would be the standard push key button or sometimes referred joy pad edition offer more than 750 number puzzles, one puzzle timer, a puzzle assistant, a repeat puzzle option, 3-level skills and  sound effects. Electronic Sudoku is ideal for Sudoku fanatics on the go.

The touch screen ultra-chic LCD version of Electronic Sudoku includes more than 100,000 puzzles with 2 modes along with 4-level skills each. Just put in your formula solutions through the accessible and user-friendly easy touch screen style. The touch screen edition also includes a pause feature and a spare stylus. This is perfect for ages 8 and over and for roaming Sudoku fans.

Buying an Electronic Sudoku is a brilliant idea and works pretty well, but the disadvantage of the product is the gadget’s lack of contrast and the absence of a backlight. Thus, it is very hard to see the number entries. The reflection on the gadget’s screen is a bit distracting and it is difficult to see the grid especially during daytime.

Electronic Sudoku is very much addictive though it’s the electronic puzzle is still a great idea especially the touch screen edition can make you look super smart when you’re just simply sitting in a bus pretending having fun with your palm pilot.

If you’re excited to taste the pleasure of Sudoku but you soon caught yourself  reading the Anorak Weekly rather than peeked traveling either with a number puzzle book or a pile of brainteaser papers, the Electronic Sudoku is absolutely suited for you.

Get hooked on Electronic Sudoku now! You can play anytime, anywhere, with the handheld user friendly Sudoku. You’ve got numerous options to select from. All of these feature several grid formations and difficulty levels.

Electronic Sudoku game will offer you hours to days of fun headlong wits as an alternative for computers to decipher the puzzles. This electronic game is totally easy to use, available in LCD displays and features hints to answer modes. You can even hand write your solutions and answers on top pf the plastic-covered grids provided. You can select from three difficulty levels with a number of games for every level.

Now you can have fun in playing the exciting game of Sudoku in an enjoyable handheld electronic puzzle featuring a sound function. These captivating electronic puzzle game are available in almost all electronic stores worldwide so buy now and uncover the mysteries behind the mind-rattling number puzzles of Sudoku.

The Easiest Way to Play the Easy Sudoku

Playing a puzzle is one of the most popular pastimes in all parts of the world. During breaks or idle hours you can oftentimes see a person busy solving puzzles from newspapers, magazine or books. These are personal moments that can help idle time away and sharpen ones mind.

One of the best played puzzles is the Sudoku. It is an addictive number puzzle game that is taking the United States and the whole world by storm. It has become one of the most famous puzzle games ever created.

It is played using a 9 x 9 grid that is divided into nine equal squares. The objective of the puzzle is to place the numbers from 1 to 9. Each number must appear only once in every row, column and in 3 x 3 squares.

A Sudoku puzzle game usually begins with a set of numbers already given in the puzzle. Depending on the given numbers and the placement of the numbers, this determines the complexity level of this puzzle. The puzzle normally differs from the simple or easy down to the difficult level of play. Sudoku puzzle is solved using logical skills.

If you haven’t tried playing a Sudoku puzzle yet, it is suggested that you begin with the easiest one available. If you want to purchase a puzzle book, the different levels are labeled – whether it is easy, moderately hard or very difficult.

If you want to look for the game in a newspaper, you will usually find the easiest Sudoku puzzle at the start of the week (Monday). By starting with the easy Sudoku, it will help you improve the strategies and techniques you have. In addition, it is not as frustrating as the difficult Sudoku.

How to play the Easy Sudoku?

For beginners, here are steps which can be helpful in solving the easy sudoku. Be sure to follow each step carefully and correctly to have a better chance of solving the puzzle.

1.  Upon Solving, think carefully and cleverly. Once you already know that you cannot have two same numbers in each row, column or 3 x 3 boxes, it will be a good help or hint which you can use to get another number in the series. Remember the more difficult the Sudoku is, the lesser chance to start the game easily.

2.  In solving an easy Sudoku, the first thing you must keep in mind is to look for the possibilities. Possibilities are the numbers that are possibly just around. Beginning at 1, make an imaginary line on the boxes in the 1’s row and column. When you see that only one box is left in the nine-square block, you will know that it is a possibility.

3.  Carefully work on the numbers until the number 9. Since you already placed some of the numbers, this must help you to get other numbers which has more possibilities.

4.  If you are trapped, go back but ensure to look at the other numbers. Once that happens, it is assured that you had missed something on the puzzle. That thing is normally where you need to be active again. If on the process you still cannot find the “missing number”, begin by labeling each block with everything which has a chance to be on the box.

5.  It would be advisable that you begin a game in the newspaper. Most of the newspapers in the country already have Sudoku puzzle games. Most of the easy puzzle games are out during Monday and Tuesday. While the difficult puzzles are out on the following days.

The basic technique most players use in playing the Easy Sudoku is by going through every number and by trying to place as many numbers as the puzzle permits. You have to observe the numbers on the rows and columns to make sure that there are no same numbers present.

If you are working your way on the numbers 1 to 9, ensure to think about going through the same process again. Then, look at the squares to know the numbers you can use to prevent other numbers from filling in.

Try to train your mind well in looking at the numbers in all 3 x 3 boxes, columns or rows. In this way, you can easily spot the missing numbers which you need in each 3 x 3 boxes, columns or rows.

Lastly, if it is your first time to play the game, be patient. It may be an easy Sudoku but it is not as simple as what you may think. It still requires great logical skills and careful thinking in order to win and complete the puzzle.

Daily Sodoku

Sudoku is one of the most addictive puzzle games to hit the US, Japan, Europe, and the rest of the world!  Though it was invented in 1979, Sudoku gained popularity in Japan in the mid 1980’s, the early 1990’s in the US, the middle of 2004 in Britain, and last year all over Europe.  Now, the rest of the world is catching onto this very addictive puzzle game due to the diversity of sources that offer Sudoku puzzles, from newspapers and magazines, to TV shows and the Internet.  For those who prefer solving only one Sudoku puzzle a day, check out these sources of daily Sudoku puzzles.

•  http://www.daily-sudoku-puzzle.com/

As the website URL suggests, this site offers users a different Sudoku puzzle everyday for free.  There are 4 levels of difficulty here: Easy, Medium, Hard, and Fiendish.  Each level has its own daily Sudoku puzzle that users can solve and have their times posted on the site.  No need to register!  Instructions on how to play Sudoku are available as a 1-minute animation.  You can see the solutions to the previous day’s grids, and see old Sudoku puzzles in the site’s archive.  A simple, yet Oriental–flavored grid is used for all Sudoku puzzles.  Other features are also available.  A nice site to check out!

•  http://www.dailysudoku.com/sudoku/index.shtml

The Daily Sudoku offers users different Sudoku puzzles on a daily basis. These puzzles are printable and are available for use offline.  The site also shows the solution to the day’s puzzle.  Larger 12X12 and 16X16 puzzles are also available for download.  Various links to Sudoku resources can also be found here.  Feel free to download your Sudoku puzzles now!

•  http://www.fingertime.com/sudoku.php

Fingertime.com offers free online mini games for users.  Its Sudoku game can be played online and against a clock.  Post your time on the player board and see how you fared against others.  Playing the game is easy just by using the mouse.  Though the puzzle’s graphics look very simple, users will find this game very addictive once they get the hang of it.  If you don’t like your solution, just reset the game and time and solve the puzzle in record time! Other features like viewing puzzle archives and solutions to the previous day’s puzzle are available here.

•  http://www.sudoku.org.uk/daily.asp

This site is a competitive Sudoku site that offers a different Sudoku puzzle daily.  Difficulty levels per day are set by the site.  Gentle (Easy) level is available only during Monday.  Moderate level is offered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.  Tough level is available on Thursdays, and Diabolical level is offered on Fridays and Sundays.  Download the day’s puzzle, solve it, then submit your solution along with some basic personal information like name, email address etc. and get a chance to win a prize!  Common features are also available here like links to resources, tips, purchasable Sudoku games etc.

•  http://uk.games.yahoo.com/sudoku/index.html

Yahoo! Games–UK offers Yahoo! fanatics its version of Sudoku.  Daily online versions are available, and different puzzles are available for Easy, Medium, and Hard levels.  You can instantly view the solution to the day’s puzzle.  You can also download the Ancient Sudoku Game, that has good graphics, making it look like a Mayan stone tablet.

Those are just some of the websites that offer users daily Sudoku puzzles.  Feel free to search the net for a lot more of these websites.  The following are some of the newspapers all over the world also offer daily Sudoku puzzles.

•  Clarin (Argentina)

•  Diario Perfil (Argentina)

•  The Australian

•  The Courier Mail (Australia)

•  Daily Telegraph (Australia)

•  Sydney Morning

•  The Age (Australia)

•  Le Soir (Belgium)

•  Het Belang van Limburg (Belgium) 

•  De Standaard (Belgium)

•  O Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil)

•  Toronto Star

•  El Tiempo (Colombia)

•  El Colombiano

•  B.T. (Denmark)

•  Nordjyske Stiftstidende (Denmark)

•  Ekstra Bladet (Denmark)

•  Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)

•  Le Parisien (France)

•  Handelsblatt (Germany)

•  Die Welt – Kompakt (Germany) 

•  Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)

•  Elefthrotypia (Greece)

•  Ta Nea (Greece)

•  Apple Daily (Hong Kong)

•  am730 (Hong Kong)

•  The Standard (Hong Kong)

•  Fréttablaðið (Iceland)

•  Irish Independent

•  Irish Times

•  The Jerusalem Post

•  Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel)

•  Ma’ariv (Israel)

•  Haaretz (Israel)

•  Il Secolo XIX (Italy)

•  La Republica (Italy)

•  Dagens Nœringsliv (Norway)

•  Adresseavisen (Norway)

•  Correio da Manhã (Portugal)

•  Metro (Portugal)

•  Destak (Portugal)

•  Slovenske novice (Slovenia)

•  Beeld (South Africa)

•  La Vanguardia (Spain)

•  Le Temps (Switzerland)

•  Le Matin (Switzerland)

•  Berner Zeitung (Switzerland)

•  Bangkok Post

•  Newark Star–Ledger (USA)

•  The Buffalo News (USA)

•  Chicago Red Eye (USA)

•  Los Angeles Times (USA)

•  The Washington Post (USA)

•  USA Today

•  The Boston Globe (USA)

•  San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

•  Seattle Times (USA)

There are tons of other US newspapers that offer daily Sudoku puzzles.  Be sure to check your country’s national and local papers if they offer daily Sudoku puzzles.

1 more week!

Are you still in vacation mode? Playing games in front of your computer, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites? Well, its the last week of getting tired of playing computer games, social media sites and many more and I think its time to shape up and start adjusting your sleep.

Summer is already over and more people will have to go to school.. New friends, new classmates, new teachers, and many more. This is a new journey in a students life.! (i hope that it really is a new journey in a student's life). Well, within less than a week, many students will come to school. Every member of a school community is preparing for these scenario every year. It somehow like a WELCOME party for the students going back to school.

Since it's a new beginning of the school year, may students are thinking of the different subject that they will encounter. We all know that one concern of most students is the subject MATH. A lot of students perceives mathematics as the HARDEST subject but really its not. Mathematics is a subject that helps a person build his or her self confidence. Not only that, many people thinks that studying mathematics particularly the very famous "x" and "y" in algebra are nonsense and will have no use in the future. Yes we can say that as a student, they cannot easy get the idea of studying the "x" and "y" in algebra or maybe even the different problems in math. Many would say that "ask me anything, except Math", "MATH stands for MENTAL ABUSE TO HUMANS", "let the Math Problem stays as a problem", and many more negative insights about math.

Thinking deeper why we have to study mathematics is that it really helps a person to boost and develop their analytic and and critical thinking skills. If you ask as student what he/she is going to do if he/she experience a flat tire while driving, he will just answer "im going to call and ask for help", without thinking what happened to his tire or what, how can he fix it bu himself and many more. A person who has a developed and practiced skills and with patience will certainly ask those questions first before calling help. If a person really understood the importance of learning mathematics, a problem will not be a problem for him, but it will be the problem's problem. All problems has its own solutions and the solution to a problem is to learn how to analyze, observe, criticize and execute and the most important of all, having patience in solving any types of problem. And all of those traits are developed by MATHEMATICS.

Journey with Mathematics Continue... (be competent)

My journey with Mathematics continue when I was in High School.

.I said to myself that this is a new WORLD, I am now out of my first "shell", I am going to meet new people, new friends, new classmates, new teachers and new school community. In High School, there are many kinds and types of people than i can personally classify. There are students that can be called Rockstars, Emo, Spice Girls (students who always look into their mirrors), geeks, Subject WIZARDS and many more. Being new to this community, my fear of being a loner came back to me. As time passed by, I started to meet new friends, new enemies, new competitors and many more. All i can say is, its really different in High School. The competition also of being the number one in the class is so high. I couldn't imaging myself being there on TOP but I want to try and prove to myself that i can do it. At first, i failed, I did not even get any honors on the first part of the school year. I said to myself that i have to find a way for me to be known and to excel in the class. As i remember, I was one of the best in Math in my gradeschool years but the problem is Mathematics in high school is really different from before. One day i met a friend who is really i can call a Math wizard.

This guy really helped me in molding myself and adjusting in Highschool life. We became best of friends. One thing that we always want to do is to compare grades in all of the subject. For me, this is just a simple game that we tend to do, but without noticing it, it actually helped me to become more competent when it comes to studies. I did not thought that with just simple comparison of grades and score we are doing as best friends, it enhances my skills and knowledge on other subjects and i even was acknowledge as one of the best students in Mathematics and Science. This was the start of me being competent on all the things that I do, and i can say that being competent really is a way to enhance your skills and learning. With proper discipline and being able to accept failures and success, I managed to cope with the high school life. And again, Mathematics is the reason why i got my friends and best friends.. Lots of people admire my skills in mathematics. Me and my best friend were even asked to be the representative of our class on one of the MATH QUIZ BEE activity on our school.. All i can say is that these experiences i had really molded me in what i am right now.. Although there are things that i regret when i was in high school, all i can say is HIGH SCHOOL is the best, and this is the time that I said to myself that I am going to pursue MATH related course in college. Aim High and always remember that being competent on the things that you do will really help you enhance your skills.

On the Next blog, i am going to share those regrets i had when i was in High School.

Thank You!

~Mathematics is not hard, Math is CHALLENGING" 

Why Math?

Many people think that Mathematics is a HARD and DIFFICULT subject. Uhhmm well for me, MATH helps me build and establish myself for who I am. At early age,and as a LONER back then, I am wondering why my classmates are always gathering in one corner of the classroom chatting, laughing and being amazed by one person sitting in front of them. One time, I tried to join them and I've noticed that they are listening very well to my classmates talk. I suddenly ask them, "what are you doing?". My other classmates stared at me like they want to tell me that "HELLo??"
You don't know what's happening here? I was just curious why they are gatherer there and i also want to be part of that group. I do have friends of my own but as a loner in my childhood days, I always wanted to get the attention of others. There are  times that by seeking attention from people, I tend to be scolded by my teachers. There are also times that my classmates will ignore me. These things happen every single day when  I was in grade school  One day a teacher approached and talked to me about my problem. I told her my intentions why i'm doing things to get their attention. She told me that all i have to do is be myself and try to know more about myself. Things that I know that can make others and myself proud. With this motivation, I ask one of my classmates why they are always gathering in a corner of a classroom and he told me that its because they are having a hard time understanding math problems. Specifically, word problems. That gave me an idea to get the attention of the people in school. I ask my parents about math, why math is hard for most people, and etc. The response i got from my parents are the positive outlook in mathematics, i did not hear them say words or phrases that mathematics is hard or difficult. Those words from my parents boost my interest and start to
like math. I always ask my parents about the different techniques I can use in learning math. There are also times that they will give me situation and problems that I should solve on my own. Those things helped me  appreciate math more. Back in school, when we had our math exam, I was surprised with the result because i got the 2nd to the highest score. They next week, exam again and i am part of the people who got the perfect score, and this happen consistently until the school year end. I felt like im going to love math more because my classmates and teachers starts to praise me with my skills in math. Mathematics is not only a subject for me, but a partner that help me build my self esteem and character.