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"From Japan a new challenge.
A new puzzle that is more and more being followed in Italy.
A game with numbers that supersede sudoku.
Have you ever tried playing FUTOSHIKI?
On Saturday, September 30, 2006, The Guardian announced the weekly publication of a new Japanese game known as Futoshiki. This game, also known as Hutosiki, was published in 2001 by Kandour, under the leadership of Ms. Tamaki Seto, to counter the dominance of Sudoku, which is copyright protected only in Japan.
The English newspaper did not make a good impression on its readers, despite the fact that its futoshiki were made by hand, and not by a computer.
In fact, in the third week, the same The Guardian asked its readers how many solutions were published in this riddle, despite the fact that earlier this provided a unique solution.
So much so that it does not seem to have reached such a level as to surpass sudoku.
There is no doubt, however, that several Italian newspapers and magazines began to publish it, and some enthusiasts solve it.
Futoshiki, as already mentioned, is a new type of Japanese digital puzzle that, like Sudoku, requires logical rather than mathematical calculations to solve.
Although usually played with a 5x5 grid, you can find 4x4 grids up to 9x9 in size.
In Futoshiki, as in Sudoku, you must enter numbers so that they appear only once in each row or column. But instead of 3x3 squares in Sudoku, where you enter numbers from 1 to 9, in the Futoshiki puzzle between the fields where the line numbers are located, you can find characters that indicate whether the number on the left is more or less than the number on the right and between the fields, in which numbers are placed in columns, if the number above is greater than or less than the following.
The solution must be unique.
The option called “Inequality”, published by us in 2006 in the zero issue of the digital magazine, still present on the website www.solitariconlecarte.it, does not include numbers, but only symbols.
You need to enter numbers from 1 to 5 in each column and row, without repeating (as in Sudoku).
The characters between the fields indicate whether the number is larger or smaller than the other (for example, “4 <?” Means that 4 is less than the number on the right, because instead the largest number to insert is 5 of? Maybe only 5!)."
A new puzzle that is more and more being followed in Italy.
A game with numbers that supersede sudoku.
Have you ever tried playing FUTOSHIKI?
ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND HISTORY
On Saturday, September 30, 2006, The Guardian announced the weekly publication of a new Japanese game known as Futoshiki. This game, also known as Hutosiki, was published in 2001 by Kandour, under the leadership of Ms. Tamaki Seto, to counter the dominance of Sudoku, which is copyright protected only in Japan.
The English newspaper did not make a good impression on its readers, despite the fact that its futoshiki were made by hand, and not by a computer.
In fact, in the third week, the same The Guardian asked its readers how many solutions were published in this riddle, despite the fact that earlier this provided a unique solution.
So much so that it does not seem to have reached such a level as to surpass sudoku.
There is no doubt, however, that several Italian newspapers and magazines began to publish it, and some enthusiasts solve it.
Futoshiki, as already mentioned, is a new type of Japanese digital puzzle that, like Sudoku, requires logical rather than mathematical calculations to solve.
Although usually played with a 5x5 grid, you can find 4x4 grids up to 9x9 in size.
In Futoshiki, as in Sudoku, you must enter numbers so that they appear only once in each row or column. But instead of 3x3 squares in Sudoku, where you enter numbers from 1 to 9, in the Futoshiki puzzle between the fields where the line numbers are located, you can find characters that indicate whether the number on the left is more or less than the number on the right and between the fields, in which numbers are placed in columns, if the number above is greater than or less than the following.
The solution must be unique.
The option called “Inequality”, published by us in 2006 in the zero issue of the digital magazine, still present on the website www.solitariconlecarte.it, does not include numbers, but only symbols.
HOW TO PLAY FOTOSHIKI
You need to enter numbers from 1 to 5 in each column and row, without repeating (as in Sudoku).
The characters between the fields indicate whether the number is larger or smaller than the other (for example, “4 <?” Means that 4 is less than the number on the right, because instead the largest number to insert is 5 of? Maybe only 5!)."
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