Over the last few days and including today’s newspapers it is reported that the English are becoming raving mad and addicted to SuDoku, a simple puzzle that will make you want to jump from the London Eye before they close it.
How to solve this deceiving simple puzzle follow the link on the left frame “How to solve”
This has become a world phenomenon.
MarkB
Oh dear, just what I need. Something else to fritter my time away on. 
I’ll see how far I can get.
Secret…it is highly addictive and you can’t just do one!
MarkB
That’s very bad news.
i lack the intelligence and patience for those kind of games. 
Intelligence? If that’s involved I won’t last long. Patience is easy if there are other things you should be doing instead—like the laundry, the kitchen, blah, blah, blah,…
The rule.
Here are the rules of the puzzle —
There is really only one rule:
Fill in the grid so that
every row,
every column, and
every 3 x 3 box
contains the digits 1 through 9.
This means that —
The digits to be entered are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
This is a row, 9 cells wide. A filled-in row must have one of each digit. That means that each digit appears only once in the row. There are 9 rows in the grid, and the same applies to each of them.
This is a column, 9 cells tall. A filled-in column must have one of each digit. That means that each digit appears only once in the column. There are 9 columns in the grid, and the same applies to each of them.
This is a box, containing 9 cells in a 3x3 layout. A filled-in box must have one of each digit. That means that each digit appears only once in the box. There are 9 boxes in the grid, and the same applies to each of them.
You can’t change the digits already provided in the grid.
You have to work around them.
Every puzzle has just one correct solution.
MakrB
Hmmm. Maybe being one fruit loop over the bowlful already makes me immune to getting addicted.
I saw a puzzle like that in the paper last week, but I couldn’t be bothered to even start it.
Or maybe I just don’t go a bundle on number puzzles.
I saw someone on the tube the other day with an entire puzzle book of Sudoku puzzles. I think that that would just make one’s journey even longer…
I don’t like numbers.
hmmm… looks a whole lot like the number puzzels we had the kids working on for their math classes.
I know I’m a geek, but I buy a lot of puzzle books (by Dell and other publishers) and this type of puzzle has been a staple for years in them. Nothing new. I do them occasionally but I don’t find them at all addictive. So I don’t get the big deal.
Beth
Those kinds of puzzles are supposed to be good at preventing Alzheimer’s disease as well.
I’d better get crackin’ then.