Get started solving the classic number puzzle with tips from some of the best solvers in the world. By Isaac Aronow Everybody can solve a hard Sudoku. Maybe not right now, maybe not without some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess). Competitors at the World ...