Can you solve it? Is beehive Hidato the new Sudoku?
by Alex Bellos from on (#DE1W)
It's a big hit in Israel - but can the hexagon puzzle catch on elsewhere?
- If you'd like to watch me get you started, have a look at my Monday puzzle video.
Not long ago a puzzle with an exotic name appeared, asking solvers to fill out numbers on a grid. Sudoku then became a worldwide craze.
Now there's a new one with similar aspirations. Hidato is the creation of Israeli inventor Gyora Benedek. (The name comes from hida, the Hebrew for riddle.)
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