Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a $9\times9$ grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine $3\times3$ subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", "regions" or "subsquares") contain all the digits from $1$ to $9$. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a well-posed puzzle has a unique solution.
Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a $9\times9$ grid with digits so that each row, column and the nine $3\times3$ subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", "regions" or "subsquares") contain all the digits from $1$ to $9$. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a well-posed puzzle has a unique solution.
A completed Sudoku grid is a special type of Latin square with the additional property of no repeated values in any of the nine blocks (or boxes of $3\times 3$ cells). The relationship between the two theories is known, after it was proven that a first-order formula that does not mention blocks is valid for Sudoku if and only if it is valid for Latin squares.
The general problem of solving Sudoku puzzles on $n^2\times n^2$ grids of $n\times n$ blocks is known to be NP-complete
