Learning from Simplicity in the Facebook Game Action Sudoku

We’ve been playing a small but charming puzzle title lately, called Action Sudoku, from Backstage. With 45,000 monthly active users on Facebook, it is one of a growing number of apps we have begun to see revolving around the decades-old puzzle game, Sudoku (pronounced soo-DOH-koo). But it stands out not just for social features, but because it gets some key details right.

Though the game itself was not popularized until 1986 by a Japanese puzzle company (Nikoli), it can actually be dated back to French newspapers during the 19th century.

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