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By Julia McCue, Web content producer January 28, 2008

SUDOKU OFTEN starts as a way to pass the time while traveling or waiting. It can progress to a hobby and in serious cases develop into a mania. Somewhere along this clinical continuum, the sufferer will turn to the Web.

SOMETIMES the addict will start with Web Sudoku, printing puzzles (Easy, Medium, Hard or Evil) to anguish over in a doctor's waiting room or on the sidelines of a nephew's sporting event. But soon all pretense of an idle pastime is set aside and sudoku-ers are sitting in front of the computer filling in the online puzzles and dinner is burning. Or still cold in the fridge.

NEED HELP? Several sites can come to your aid. Sudoku Solver not only provides puzzles and will help you through them online but also allows you to enter a difficult puzzle into a grid. Click Solve it! and the site will let you know if it was solved by logic alone, if the site had to guess and if there is more than one solution.

THE SCANRAID site provides puzzles to solve and has a cerebral slant. It can be a little difficult to understand. If you are hardcore, this is the place for you for solving strategies. It makes even simple techniques sound difficult and important.

Web Sudoku

Sudoku Solver

Scanraid