Solving Sudoku

... Search for the Weakest Link

First 'Hello Kitty', and now this. The Japanese puzzle Sudoku is sweeping, if not the world, then at least the media. I learned about it from an audio report by Seth Stevenson of Slate. Several British newspapers now publish a daily Sudoku column.

My goal was to build a Sudoku Solver. In the process I came up with a good approach for that, and a reason to build an original database of sample puzzles.