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I remember the first time I ever encountered Sudoku. It was on a lazy Sunday morning, curled up with a cup of coffee, flipping through a random magazine. There it was—a tiny grid filled with numbers, some already in place, others blank. At first glance, it looked simple. "How hard could it be?" I thought, casually picking up my pen. Little did I know, that simple-looking puzzle would pull me into hours of obsession, frustration, and eventually, pure satisfaction.

At its core, Sudoku is deceptively simple: fill a 9x9 grid so that every row, column, and 3x3 subgrid contains all the numbers from 1 to 9 without repeating. Sounds easy, right? That’s what I thought initially. But as I soon discovered, Sudoku is a subtle game of logic, patience, and pattern recognition. It’s a kind of mental yoga: quiet, meditative, yet occasionally excruciating.