Lovatts SUPER SUDOKU, the best online SUDOKU puzzle you will find!

Welcome to the Lovatts SUPER SUDOKU website. We hope you will come to love this puzzle which is sweeping the world much as crosswords did 80 years ago.

The principle, which we’ve explained on the home page, is simple and in this way, Sudoku (pronounced sue doe koo with no emphasis on any syllable) has much in common with its younger relative, the crossword. Yes, younger, because Sudoku predates the word puzzle by nearly 230 years!

History of the SUDOKU puzzle

Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler produced the first Sudoku puzzle in 1783, calling it Latin Squares. Fast forward to the 1980s when an American publication introduced the puzzle as Number Place. Japanese puzzle publishers Nikoli picked up the idea and gave Sudoku its name.

Incidentally, the word is Japanese for single number, but could also translate to one singularity or soul.

Next, Kiwi Wayne Gould, a retired Hong Kong judge found the puzzle in a Japanese bookstore and spent the next few years refining it before introducing it to British newspapers.

Lovatts SUPER SUDOKU

Lovatts have toyed with the idea for more than 10 years when our computer wizard Peter Hicks produced a variant to our Fill-In style puzzles. Foolishly we rejected the puzzle, thinking it was more suited to mathematics than word skills.
But as we now know, you don’t need a knowledge of mathematics to solve these clever little puzzles. Just logical reasoning and patient working out.

We hope you have as much fun solving our daily online Sudoku puzzle as we did compiling them. Everyone here at Lovatts is now addicted to Sudoku and can’t get enough of these fiendishly clever logic squares,

Happy Puzzling.