Maki Kaji, the man who created the popular puzzle game 'sudoku', is no more. Kaji was a puzzle enthusiast and known as the "Godfather of Sudoku" - the number puzzle played daily by millions around the world. A university dropout who worked in a printing company before founding Japan`s first puzzle magazine, Kaji took hints from an existing number puzzle to create what he later named "sudoku" - a contraction of the Japanese for "every number must be single" - sometime in the mid-80s. Sudoku became popular outside Japan around two decades ago after overseas newspapers began printing it. Kaji continued to create and refine puzzles with the help of readers of his quarterly puzzle magazine.

Source: dna August 17, 2021 17:03 UTC