BRAINY People readers have given their verdict on the “world’s hardest” sudoku – it’s easy peasy. Clever-clogs took just hours to crack the fiendishly difficult puzzle by maths expert Arto Inkala in ...

The numbers riddle Sudoku has taken the puzzle pages by storm but is it better than that old favourite, the crossword? The numbers riddle Sudoku has taken the puzzle pages by storm but is it better ...

Forget crosswords, wordgames and the humble Magic Eye: Sudoku is the new newspaper craze...but what on earth is it? Forget crosswords, wordgames and the humble Magic Eye: Sudoku is the new newspaper ...

My apologies if you were disturbed by a howl of anguish followed by the sound of tearing newspaper just before lunchtime yesterday: I had just experienced my first "Sudoku moment". Twenty minutes of ...

Boris Johnson is making ‘good progress’ in hospital and has been kept entertained by baby scans, Sudoku and classic British films. The prime minister, 55, is now able to take short walks as he ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sudoku players that have been left frustrated by the latest puzzle they're trying out should turn to the handy X-wing technique. Named after the iconic Star Wars spaceship, the X-wing technique can ...

Despite the global success of Sudoku, Kaji never trademarked his game outside of Japan and as a result, never gained that much financially (AFP/Getty) Maki Kaji, a Japanese puzzle maker who became ...

We’d all like to be a little younger, but father time keeps us aging and aging. New research, however, had concluded that doing a Sudoku puzzle every day could lower our brain age by a decade.

PLAYING brain training games like Sudoku does not make you mentally sharper, according to new research. Spending hours on smartphone apps in the hope of boosting IQ is a waste of time, say scientists.

THE creator of the ­popular Sudoku puzzle has died aged 69 after a battle with cancer. Maki Kaji first published the numbers game in his Japanese magazine Nikoli in the 1980s. Known as “the Godfather ...