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[–] cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago
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[–] FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a math based puzzle commonly known as Sudoku, the rules are that each 3x3 square can only have numbers 1-9 with no repeats, same with each 9x1 row or column. A set of numbers are placed as a starter pattern (you can solve from blank but it's significantly more challenging) and you need to fill in the remaining numbers.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a logic puzzle, no math is involved. It used numbers but those could be replaced with the letters 'A' through 'I' and function the same. Otherwise correct.

I started typing an angry comment about how math is logic and therefore sudoku is a math puzzle, but when I got to the second paragraph about graph theory I realized I was already losing the argument I was having with no one