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VJF to conduct Su do ku contest tomorrow

Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM: Vizag Journalists Forum (VJF) is conducting a competition in Su do ku from 9 a.m. on Sunday at Fusion Foods, beside Gurajada Kalakshetram, Siripuram. The competition will be held in three age groups -- up to 15 years, 16 to 23 years, and 24 years and above. It will be held in five rounds followed by a super round. Every contestant can play in the first five rounds and the top two from each round of each group will qualify for the super league of the respective age group, VJF president S. Siva Sankar, secretary M. Yugandhar Reddy, treasurer D. Ravi Kumar, and general manager of Fusion Foods Johnson A. Prabhu told reporters here on Friday.

The organisers will provide the blank Su do ku forms and the puzzle to be solved will be displayed on a board, which has to be copied and completed by the contestants.

Free goodies

A free pizza and a soft drink will be provided to every contestant by the Fusion Foods, which is also sponsoring the prizes. The participants are required to bring their own pens or pencils and other stationary. Entry fee is Rs. 30.

It is a coincidence that the VJF is conducting the competition on November 27, two years after the puzzle was published for the first time in The Times.

The name of the game is in Japanese but it has its origins in Europe and America. `Su' means number and `do ku' is the single place on a puzzle board into which fits each number, according to a press release. It was stated that in 18th century, a Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler developed the concept of Latin squares where a number would appear only once in a grid--across and up and down.

Since late 70s, the Dell magazines started publishing the puzzle which is now called su do ku, in a nine by nine square grid and based on Euler's concept. It was called Number Place and was developed by an independent puzzle maker Howard Garnes.

Among the Su do ku puzzles, the nine by nine grid is the most common form while the four by four grids with two by two sub-section is simpler and fun for children. It can also be delivered on to a cell phone.

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