Suduko first appeared as a game within the 18th century. It took almost 200 years before it made it into the media.
In 1979 the primary Suduko puzzle was published in an American puzzle magazine called Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games where it had been called "Number Place"
Then it disappeared back to obscurity within the West, occasionally appearing in puzzle magazines. In 1984 the Monthly Nikolist paper in Japan published an equivalent quite puzzle under the name Suduko. Other magazines picked abreast of this puzzle fad, but thanks to copyright reasons couldn't call it Suduko.
It was in 1989 Suduko made its first migration to computers. DigitHunt was published on the Commodore 64, bringing Suduko to an entire new audience. In 1995 it appeared on the Apple Macintosh, then in 1996 on the Palm PDA.
In 1997 Wayne Gould, a retired judge from Hong Kong saw a partly completed puzzle during a Japanese bookshop. He spent subsequent six year producing a computer virus to quickly produce these puzzles.
Wayne knew that British loved crosswords and puzzles, so he contacted the days newspaper in London. As he imaged, they leapt upon the thought and on 12th November 2004 published it under the name of Su Doku. Every issue of the days since this date has contained a Su Doku puzzle.
Su Doku immediately grabbed the eye of the general public, and just three days later The Daily Mail published the puzzle, but called it "Codenumber". On January 19th 2005 The Daily Telegraph published its Sudoku puzzle, which was quickly picked up by other newspapers.
On May 20th 2005, Sudoku made an intercontinental leap and appeared within the Daily Telegraph of Sydney. This massive surge of interest has resulted in Sudoko being called "The fastest growing puzzle within the world".
Despite being the primary publishers of Su Doku, the days were caught napping my the Daily Telegraph. Whereas the days hid the puzzle within the middle of the paper, The Telegraph splashed Sudoko over the front page, realising that it had been increasing sales. They took advantage of their market lead and published the primary Sudoku book before the opposite papers realised just how popular Sudoku was.
By mid 2005, every paper in Britain contained a Sudoku puzzle and there was no escaping. Even small local papers were getting into on the recognition of the puzzle. The newspapers began to compete with one another, with both the days and Daily Mail both claiming to be the primary to feature this puzzle.
2005 was really the year that Sudoku captured the imagination of British people. The newspapers published more and more Sudoku puzzles, even Teletext came on the act. then finally in July 2005, the satellite channel Sky One hosted the world's first live TV Sudoku show.
It was during the promotion of this show that Sky One built a 275 foot (84m) square puzzle on a hillside near Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England. it had been next to the M4 motorway and was coincided with a serious road expansion which meant drivers were going slower and will safely view the puzzle. Unfortunately for the tv show makers, the puzzle had 1,905 correct solutions, not the standard one solution.
Sudoku, as a puzzle, has captured the minds of tens of thousands of individuals. it is a puzzle that's here to remain, but be warned, once you choose Sudoku up, you'll struggle to place it down again.