Sudoku is an amazingly popular, nearly addictive new puzzle game. This book catches the wave of popular demand for Sudoku, offering every developer their favorite approach to any puzzle like Sudoku: how to get a computer to solve it for them, using ingenious artificial intelligence and game theory techniques. The book offers a fun and intriguing read for novice and advanced programmers alike. It uses the Microsoft's .NET platform as a base, but since the core techniques involved will solve Sudoku on any programming platform, programmers from any background with an interest in Sudoku will find it interesting.