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The Complete History of Sudoku

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Wayne Gould is known for making sudoku popular all over the world.

A retired judge and puzzle enthusiast from Hong Kong, he found a puzzle book in Tokyo in 1997. He fell in love with sudoku. He wrote a computer program, which took six years to complete, that generates sudoku puzzles. In November 2004 Wayne convinced the London Times to print them in their newspaper. About the same time the Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire started printing sudoku puzzles.

After that sudoku started appearing in American and British newspapers and rapidly spread.

Mr. Gould is therefore credited with making sudoku popular all over the world. Today it is hard to go anywhere without seeing sudoku. People all over the world are discovering the puzzle and enjoying it.

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