Sudoku-based puzzles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9943752
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13297194

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A sudoku-style game for use by a human player includes a game board surface presented to the player which has a plurality of P×Q sub-matrices of cells, each of the cells being divided into a first section and a second section, each section of each cell having sufficient space to contain a visually perceivable indicator, wherein P represents the number of rows in each sub-matrix, and Q represents the number of columns in each sub-matrix, a master matrix having the plurality of P×Q sub-matrices coupled one P×Q sub-matrix to another P×Q sub-matrix to form a desired game board shape, a solution to the game being the completion of the master matrix by the player so that no indicator is repeated more than a respective instructed number of times in each row and column.

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FUN MEDIA LTD69 CHURCH ROAD THIRD FLOOR HOVE EAST SUSSEX BN3 2BB

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Mackay, Glenn Frederick Brighton, GB 2 1

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