It Is All In The Numbers
Today, for the first time, I tasted the global phenomenon of Sudoku. The craze has made it’s way from the UK to the local Hindustan Times. The puzzles are like numerical croswords, not hard to understand and reward rigour over blinding insight. However, they are rather addictive, the basic ones solvable in 10-20 minutes and […]
Today, for the first time, I tasted the global phenomenon of Sudoku. The craze has made it’s way from the UK to the local Hindustan Times. The puzzles are like numerical croswords, not hard to understand and reward rigour over blinding insight. However, they are rather addictive, the basic ones solvable in 10-20 minutes and do not require translation. In the UK, it looks like newspapers are actively competing for the sudoku market and in Japan, sudoku magazines average sales of more than 600,000 a month. It seems certain that sudoku will be one of the fads that in years to come defines 2005.
