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Sudoku, the logic-based, number placement puzzle known to help stimulate cognitive abilities, causes one man to have seizures. Doctors from the University of Munich published the case study in the Journal JAMA Neurology. A 25-year-old right-handed man started experiencing this unique case of reflex epilepsy after being buried by an avalanche during a ski trip. He was deprived of oxygen for 15 minutes, but made it out alive. "He had to be resuscitated, but was extremely lucky that he survived," says Berend Feddersen, author of the study. However, surviving the ordeal didn̢۪t come without side effects. Shortly after, the patient...

Solving sudoku puzzles led to seizures in a young German man, say scientists from the University of Munich who wrote about the unusual medical tale in JAMA Neurology. The 25-year-old man, a physical education student, had survived being buried just weeks before by an avalanche during a ski trip. Deprived of oxygen for 15 minutes, he developed muscle jerks when he tried to speak and walk. While in the hospital, he was trying to work out a sudoku puzzle when he began to experience clonic seizures of his left arm, which had not been injured in the accident. Clonic seizures...

GOD’s SUDOKU (Part 1) Deriving the presence of God in our World and Lives I have been struck by the growing number of people who are publicly proclaiming that God does not exist. From the well known atheists like Christopher Hitchens, Michael Dawkins, and Penn Gillette, to lesser known groups who like to refer to themselves as “free thinkers.” While their arguments range from high minded intellectualism to wanton pleasure seeking, they all boil down to the simple premise that we cannot prove that God exists anymore than we can prove unicorns or fairies exists. They then point to the...

Dave Mackie is running an online Sudoku competition where his luxury home in Lancashire will be given away as a prize. He has already received thousands of entries around the world, but will let his 'koi' pick the winner from the correct entries. The insurance broker and puzzle fan plans to install a touch sensitive pad in the pond and when the fish touch it one of the 14,000 entries will be selected. He hopes this will mean the fish select someone who will look after them when he moves out- though given it is random they are just as...

The Math Genius Who Gave Us Sudoku By AMY ELLIS NUTT   Leonhard Euler's math discoveries extend to astronomy, ballistics, optics, music theory, fluid dynamics, mapmaking, shipbuilding — and Sudoku.     In the spring of 1727, two weeks after the body of Isaac Newton was laid to rest in London's Westminster Abbey, an obscure 19-year-old mathematician by the name of Leonhard Euler left his home in Basel, Switzerland, to take up an academic position in St. Petersburg, Russia.When he died there in 1783 at the age of 76, Euler (pronounced "oiler'') had become the most prolific scientific writer in...

Folks, I'm stumped... I need help with the following: Given - Two completed suduko puzzles A (correct answer) and R (unknown result). Question: What is the fewest number of checks that can be made to prove that A = R for the following assumptions: Assumption1 Assume that in R, no sub area has any duplicate numbers (ie, 1-9 inclusive) Assumption2 Assume that in R, no row has any duplicate numbers (can also be proven using columns instead of rows. Also - prove true or false When A = R, the diagonals will always include at least 1 duplicate number Write...

My wife, having been told by friends in Europe that Sudoku, the Japanese [1] number-grid puzzle, was all the rage there, asked me to find some Sudokus and teach her how to solve them. A Google search disclosed a website (www.websudoku.com) with billions of Sudoku puzzles, a Wikipedia article with the puzzle’s history and mathematics, and dozens of other sites which (as the little girl wrote in her book report) “told me more than I wanted to know.” I tried a few Sudokus and found that they could be solved by logical inference without any guesswork. My wife caught on...