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France About a Century Later

From around 1890 to 1920 French newspapers had puzzles that were like Latin squares, only altered to use numbers 1 through 9. Numbers were left off and the solver would find the missing numbers.

Image of a French newspaper with a number puzzle like sudoku

These puzzles were more like today’s sudoku but did not catch on.

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