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"Sudoku"

During a very fun meeting had today at SR Towers, the current sudoku 'craze' was discussed. It was work-related, honest.

Strangely, both smv and myself were entirely ignorant as to this phenomenon. We'd absolutely never heard of it, despite being informed that it's absolutely everywhere right now.

Personally, the idea of doing maths puzzles is as appealing to me as gouging out my own eyes, so even if I was aware of it I would have just ignored it, but are smv and I the only ones in the world never to have heard of sudoku?

It is, I didn't make that up

tnc wrote:
> Su Doku is the Japanese version of Crosswords ...

*Hint: square C1- between 6 and 8*

Not quite...

MJ wrote:
> Smite him.

I did, I crushed him with a number 2...

Su Doku is the Japanese version of Crosswords ...

... anyway, I've enjoyed doing some of the "Fiendish" puzzles, before a book was bought and "Challenging" was introduced

The hardest I've ever seen is "Super", which includes letters. Now they really are a Challenge

Stryke wrote:
> I still don't see what's wrong with a crossword. Sudoku? Load of
> balls.

Yeah, I want crappy clues about old actors to fill my work day, not numbers 1 to 9.

Smite him.

Tried it for the first time today.

I think the guy that told me how to do it was a crap teacher, because I couldn't do it straight away.

Ah right, a large grid and few starting numbers is a lot of fun then. Might attempt a few tomorrow as I sense I'm going to be bored for most of the day.

MJ wrote:
> I'm assuming that when you say fiendish you're referring to a grid
> size? Sounds like a difficulty level in a game.

Not partciularly. Usually it just means you have less numbers to start with, so have to make more assumptions and mental permutations as to where numbers could go in the grid, earlier on.

> Yet if it can get
> people wasting their time in a mentally enhancing way, I'm all for
> it
>
> What's wrong with the good old fashioned hanging around on corners
> method? :(

I used to do that. Until I realised that was what I was doing.

:D

Now whenever I'm board, I read books on music related things whilst lying on my bed and listening to my iPod.

Last book? John Peel by Mick Wall. What a legend.

Clazon wrote:
> Anything under fiendish is pish

I'm assuming that when you say fiendish you're referring to a grid size? Sounds like a difficulty level in a game.

> Yet if it can get
> people wasting their time in a mentally enhancing way, I'm all for
> it

What's wrong with the good old fashioned hanging around on corners method? :(