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LOGIC PUZZLE: WHY DID SUDOKU GET US SO HOOKED?
Online Sudoku is one of the most famous logic puzzles in the world that you have surely faced. It consists of a board of 9 × 9 squares in which to place the numbers from 1 to 9 and that do not coincide with each other either vertically or horizontally.
Sudoku history
This famous logic puzzle has its origin in the "Latin squares" of the 13th century and in the 18th century the mathematician Leonhard Euler showed how it was possible to build them without repeating any number in its rows. But it was not until 1984 that a retiree sold them in Japan as a result of a computer program that he had developed and made sudoku a popular hobby in the land of the rising sun.
In 2004 the newspaper "The Times" published for the first time in Europe this puzzle of logic to which so many would hook. Since that year, many European newspapers have imitated the idea of including a sudoku puzzle in their hobby section and challenging their readers with a game of logic and ingenuity only suitable for patients.
Word searches, mazes and riddles were very popular, but the numbers fever took the previous games, placing it for years on the podium of favorite logic puzzles. What was it about sudoku that was so engaging?
Free
The fact that a game is free is not synonymous with success, but it does help its dissemination and that all the public can enjoy it. Sudoku were included and continue to be included in some paid and local newspapers, so access to this logic puzzle was almost guaranteed. Whether it was when buying the newspaper, in the subway or in the Sunday magazine, this puzzle game appeared challenging all readers who dared.
Different levels
One of the great problems of the Rubik's cube was the frustration of many when trying to solve it and not obtaining successful results. Let's face it, not all logic puzzles are made for everyone to solve, and since they develop different skills, many people are terribly wrong without making them more or less intelligent.
Free online Sudoku gave a simple solution to people with different abilities who faced the 81-cell grid: have different levels of difficulty for beginners and for the initiated. Thus, on the one hand, it covered the quota of those who had never completed a Sudoku puzzle and were eager to do it and that of those who had it as a hobby and wrote the numbers fluently several times a week.
Stimulates our neurons
Like many other puzzles, Sudoku stimulates our neurons making them more resistant to harmful external agents. Doing logic puzzles and brain games keeps our brain active, being able to improve skills as important as memory, reading and writing and intellect.
A challenge before breakfast
The web sudoku format does not require any prior knowledge and, just as the alphabet soup can get bogged down by not knowing a word, this mathematical puzzle can be started over and over again until you find the solution without consulting anything in the encyclopedia.
This means that we understand it as a confrontation between the blank squares and our mind, a perfect incentive to start the day having solved the morning's Sudoku puzzle.
Success hooks
This is what experts call the "winning effect", related to the production of testosterone and which in turn fuels our self-confidence. Have you ever heard that imagining positive things attracts positive events in your life? Well, this would be similar but bearing in mind that the one who has won once has more hope and almost probabilities of winning again. And that hooks.
That is why anyone who faces a challenge is looking forward to doing it again. “Only 81 blank squares? Give me something more difficult than this, I do it with my eyes closed ”many will have thought. Well… go for the next puzzle!
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