Where did Sudoku originate?  

sorry, i dont know from where it orginate but i would like to solve it, because its just good game.
ilike the game very much and solve the sudoko's appearing in news papers.

Maybe your thinking it was came from japan as the name imply sounds like japanese right well it wrong sudoku was most likely designed by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and a freelance puzzle constructor from Indiana, and it was first published in 1979 by Dell Magazines as Number Place.the puzzle was introduced in Japan by Nikoli in the paper Monthly Nikolist in April 1984 as Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru translated as “the digits must be singleor or “the digits are limited to one occurrence.”later was abbreviated to Sudoku by Maki Kaji. there you friends i hope i help you answer this question.