2024

Is Sudoku Good for Your Brain?

Sudoku is good for your brain in a narrow, real sense and not in the broad sense the headlines promise. It reliably improves your Sudoku...

3 Jul, 2024

The Impact of Sudoku on Memory and Concentration

Sudoku trains a specific kind of memory and a specific kind of concentration — visuospatial working memory and sustained selective attent...

30 Jun, 2024

Basic principles of designing a Sudoku puzzle

Designing a Sudoku puzzle means building a complete valid grid, then removing digits one at a time while checking after every removal tha...

27 Jun, 2024

Mental Health Benefits of Playing Sudoku

The mental health benefits of Sudoku are real but modest, and they come from what the puzzle does to your attention rather than from anyt...

24 Jun, 2024

Sudoku Tips and Tricks: 15 Strategies That Actually Help

The Sudoku tips that actually change your results are few: scan by digit instead of by cell, start with the digit that already appears mo...

28 Apr, 2024