{"670877":{"#nid":"670877","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn a mid-October Monday, shortly before 9 a.m., 179 elite puzzlers made their way into the ballroom of a Toronto hotel and found their allocated seats for the World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships.\u0026nbsp;The annual championship event comprises two days of Sudoku, followed by three days of other types of pencil-and-paper logic puzzles.\u0026nbsp;Although puzzlers qualify for the event on a national level, most attend just for fun and for the community \u2014 to revel with people who share in the same nerdy delight.\u0026nbsp;The top solvers are also there to win. (The glory comes with a trophy, but no prize money.) For the Sudoku event, the leading contenders this year included \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tantan-dai-30a119239\u0022\u003ETantan Dai\u003C\/a\u003E, 23, who grew up in Beijing and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn a mid-October Monday, shortly before 9 a.m., 179 elite puzzlers made their way into the ballroom of a Toronto hotel and found their allocated seats for the World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships.\u0026nbsp;The annual championship event comprises two days of Sudoku, followed by three days of other types of pencil-and-paper logic puzzles.\u0026nbsp;Although puzzlers qualify for the event on a national level, most attend just for fun and for the community \u2014 to revel with people who share in the same nerdy delight.\u0026nbsp;The top solvers are also there to win. (The glory comes with a trophy, but no prize money.) For the Sudoku event, the leading contenders this year included \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tantan-dai-30a119239\u0022\u003ETantan Dai\u003C\/a\u003E, 23, who grew up in Beijing and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-11-03 17:32:35","changed_gmt":"2023-11-03 17:32:35","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The New York Times ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/03\/science\/puzzles-games-sudoku.html","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-11-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"193237","name":"Tantan Dai"},{"id":"193238","name":"sudoku"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}