When you are on your spare time, what do you do? Do you read books? Or would you play games with your family? If yes, then what kind of games are they? Are they interesting? If the answer is yes again, would it be the Killer Sudoku?
Killer Sudoku is the name of puzzle in combining the elements of Sudoku and kakuro. Compare to the standard Sudoku, the killer Sudoku is more easier to solve. However, the success still depends on the player’s knowledge in mental calculation.
This puzzle game was a famous variant of Sudoku in Japan on the 90s. The game was first known as Samunamupure which comes from an English word “sum number place. The Killer Sudoku was launched in all English-speaking countries in the world last year 2005.
What are the rules in playing the Killer Sudoku?
The aim of this game is to complete the grid with numbers from one to nine. However, the following rules should be followed significantly:
1. Each number from 1 to 9 should not appear twice or more in a grid.
2. Each grid must have only one of each number.
3. The total of all the numbers in a grid should match in the small number printed on it.
Though the Killer Sudoku have been popping up everywhere from online to offline (newspaper, magazine, etc.), still many players are finding it difficult to solve. What they do not know is that solving the Killer Sudoku is just as easy as the original Sudoku. The only difference is that the new version provides a lot more of information.
However, when playing it is still important that you have to follow some strategies that can lead you to victory. Below are some of the strategies that are proven to have worked out.