ACT English Practice

The Japanese number game Sudoku has taken the world with storm.

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While crossword puzzles seem to be the game of choice, they need only sit in an airport or doctor’s office in any city to see how Sudoku is slowly overtaking the popular word game.

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In the most common game of Sudoku, the player is faced with a nine-by-nine space grid with a total of 81 spaces. The solution to the puzzle requires a number, one through nine, to be placed in each box. Each number must appear only once in each row and only once in each column.

• Kept, because the reader needs to understand the process by which he or she can solve the puzzle

• Kept, because it helps the reader visualize the solution to a specific puzzle in a magazine.

• Deleted, because it is not relevant to the preceding sentence.

• Deleted, because it is unnecessarily wordy.

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A Sudoku puzzle will begin with a few digits already in place. The solver’s task, is to figure out which numeral belongs in the remaining empty spaces.

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While being a math whiz is no requirement for this seemingly simple process, a level of logic and reasoning is necessary in order to choose the correct number for each space.

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As with most such activities, practice makes perfect with Sudoku. The puzzles that seem impossible at first glance eventual become more manageable.

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The name Sudoku is derived from the phrase single number in the Japanese language. Nevertheless, its definition refers to the placement or allotment of a single number

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Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would be LEAST acceptable?

This puzzle is aptly named, since the misplacement of a single number spells the beginning of an incorrect solution.

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For this reason, Sudoku should have been played using a pencil with a good eraser.

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It is nearly impossible to discern which number the solver has placed incorrectly once an error is discovered. If you don’t have a pencil, use a pen to write the digit as a series of light dots.

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• that number

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