For the second time, Sarah Jane Cua, a fourth-year high school student of Pangasinan Universal Institute in Dagupan City, emerged as the champion in the BRAND’s Asia-Pacific Sudoku Challenge. The contest was held in Singapore, 17 October 2010.
Cua defeated contestants from Singapore, China, Thailand, Indonesia, India and Malaysia. She brought home 10,000 Singaporean dollars, S$300 BRAND’s Hamper, a glass trophy, a certificate and a one-year supply of BRAND’s Essence of Chicken product.
Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number placement puzzle, wherein a number is placed in a box and appears only once in a row. It became popular in 1986 when the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli introduced it.
Agham Pinoy 