The concept of this Japanese-style number game is rather simple: Every vertical and horizontal line, and each 9-number square, must contain all the numbers from 1 to 9. There are, I understand, advanced versions of the game that contain more numbers – always multiples of 9 – but the standard version is enough for me..
No doubt there are various methods for finding the solution, but I'll outline the one I use. And hope it will be enlightening to those readers who won't attempt the game for lack of understanding and tenacity. Might I remind you too that the solution is always given, and I often "cheat a little," when a particular square has two or more possible answers and no obvious clues. For Details
Puzzled over Sudoku?
Confessions of a Sudoku Junkie
Yes, you read the title correctly. I am addicted to the number puzzle Sudoku. Let me say right away that I am not a serious addict. I’ve never downloaded a game, and I have never bought a Sudoku book. However, when I find a New York Post in the garbage, I turn immediately to the index, rush to the right page, and spend the next 20 minutes on a “Very Easy” square. (In case you didn’t know, the Post uses this explicit ranking system.) Then I work for a half hour on the “Difficult” square, and after finding the Six Obvious Numbers, give up in mild humiliation. For Details
What's the next Sudoku? Now there's a puzzle
Some are easy to figure out, like the clues in a newspaper's Monday crossword, a beginner's Sudoku grid or cryptogram. Others are more difficult.
But one puzzle that has proved impossible to solve, even by the best in the business, is this: What's the Next Big Thing in puzzles?
Which is to say, the next Sudoku, the next logic, number or word craze to rock the world, muscle its way into magazines and newspapers or drive publishers to delirium printing collections for the new game's fans. For Details
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
