SUDOKU

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sudoku" is a kind of...):

mystifier; puzzle; puzzler; teaser (a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution)

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