<P> In the United States, the first newspaper to publish a Sudoku puzzle by Wayne Gould was The Conway Daily Sun (New Hampshire), in 2004 . </P> <P> The world's first live TV Sudoku show, Sudoku Live, was a puzzle contest first broadcast on July 1, 2005, on Sky One . It was presented by Carol Vorderman . Nine teams of nine players (with one celebrity in each team) representing geographical regions competed to solve a puzzle . Each player had a hand - held device for entering numbers corresponding to answers for four cells . Phil Kollin of Winchelsea, England, was the series grand prize winner, taking home over £ 23,000 over a series of games . The audience at home was in a separate interactive competition, which was won by Hannah Withey of Cheshire . </P> <P> Later in 2005, the BBC launched SUDO - Q, a game show that combined Sudoku with general knowledge . However, it used only 4 × 4 and 6 × 6 puzzles . Four seasons were produced before the show ended in 2007 . </P> <P> In 2006, a Sudoku website published songwriter Peter Levy's Sudoku tribute song, but quickly had to take down the MP3 file due to heavy traffic . British and Australian radio picked up the song, which is to feature in a British - made Sudoku documentary . The Japanese Embassy also nominated the song for an award, with Levy doing talks with Sony in Japan to release the song as a single . </P>

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