Easy Sudoku Puzzles
Looking for some easy sudoku puzzles to keep your kids happily occupied for a few minutes? You can start your 4 to 5 year olds on kids sudoku puzzles as they are at the stage where they can sit still and reason things out, though you may have to sit with them at the initial stages to show them the ropes.
Warning! Solving sudoku puzzles can be addictive, even for kids, so let’s get started.
Favorite places to get sudoku puzzles
We list down some of our favorite places where we get easy sudoku puzzles for kids.
1. If you want to solve sudoku puzzles the traditional way with pencil, than you can download printable sudoku puzzles for kids from the sudoku for kids website. It has puzzles that starts at very basic levels and builds up to the standard levels.
2. If you are reading us from the tablet computers , you can also download sudoku games to be played on your Amazon kindle, or the Ipad, or the Android phones and tablets.
3. You can also go to your local bookstores or the online bookstores to purchase a sudoku book, which usually contains hundreds of puzzles from easy to moderate and difficult levels.
How to play sudoku puzzles?
Sudoku is a number placement puzzle game that requires some logical thinking and immense patience. Although you see numbers on the grids, it is not a mathematical game. It is more of a logic game. It consists of a series of grids. The children’s game starts with a 4 x 4 grid.
The standard sudoku puzzle is usually a big 9 x 9 grid. Even within the standard 9 x 9 sudoku puzzles, there are varying levels of game difficulties, from easy to moderate and hard or tricky sudoku puzzles.
There is only one standard rule for completing a sudoku, and that is
- For the 4 x 4 kids sudoku, each 2 x 2 block, as well as each row and each column must only contain the numbers from 1 to 4 once.
For the 6 x 6 kids sudoku, each 3 x 3 block, as well as each row and each column must only contain the numbers from 1 to 6 once.
For the standard 9 x 9 sudoku, each 3 x 3 block, as well as each row and each column must only contain the numbers from 1 to 9 once.
(** Update note : the more advanced level for sudoku puzzles do involve additions of the numbers in a row and columns, but that is for the advanced players who have outgrown the standard sudoku puzzles and require more intellectually challenging games)
Why play Easy Sudoku puzzles
Sudoku has taken the world by storm since it first became popular in the year 2000. It is now quite easily available for free from newspapers and on the internet. However, those that are printed on the newspapers may be too difficult for younger children. You need to start young children at the basic level with easy sudoku puzzles to build their confidence level.
Kids sudoku puzzle usually comes in bright colors and graphics, and may use pictures instead of numbers on the grids. This will contain the kid’s interest and enthusiasm much longer.
Solving easy sudoku puzzles help to develop your child’s logic skills, and it is a skill that you want to develop sooner than later. Your child will learn to reason why a number should be placed where it should be, and start to build a reservoir of strategies and tips to complete the game.
Solving easy sudoku puzzles is also a good starting point for any beginner and novice sudoku player (parent, aunties, uncles and grandparents included!).
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