"Sudoku" is from the Japanese "suji wa dokushin ni kagiru," meaning "the digits must remain single." #etymology
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Interesting; shouldn't it be Sudoka, then? Wonder how it ended up "Su-do-ku. Maybe because ka-gi-ru ends in the -u sound and they wrapped all of it into one sound, instead of only taking the first character/sound.
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