World S Hardest Sudoku Solved
By alon harish june 29 2012 arto inkala a finnish mathematician designed this sudoku puzzle which he claims is the hardest sudoku yet.
World s hardest sudoku solved. The worlds hardest sudoku puzzle for those of us that never tire of a well made sudoku challenge finnish mathematician arto inkala has made what he claims is the hardest sudoku puzzle ever. Now mirror readers can test their puzzle solving prowess with his latest effort. We have both represented the uk at the world sudoku championships and the world puzzle championships. According to the finnish puzzle maker i called the puzzle ai escargot because it looks like a snail.
Since i am only interested in solving hard puzzles by educated guessing i found that this sudoku is actually not so hard as advertised 1 level of hypothesis 1 lookahead 2 levels of hypotheses. Can you solve the hardest ever sudoku. The hardest sudoku. On the difficulty scale by which most sudoku grids are graded with one star signifying the simplist and five stars the hardest this puzzle would score an eleven he explained.
I have put up screen shots of the steps and a quick explanation of the method at world s hardest sudoku. This hardest sudoku puzzle is characterized by the fact that only a few numbers are shown in the sudoku square which consists of 9 small squares where the cells are located 3x3. In 2012 finnish mathematician arto inkala claimed to have created the. Applied mathematician dr inkala 41 from finland said.
Maths genius dr arto inkala has revealed the world s hardest sudoku puzzle yet. Sudoku is easily the most played and most analyzed puzzle in the world so coming up with the hardest one is no mean feat. The finnish brainbox s latest version of the number grid puzzle is designed to bamboozle fans. And how to solve it cracking the cryptic.