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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?

I only do it when my friends say:

*snort*
"Hur hur. I just did this suedoki thing in only an hour111!!1!"

I proceed to laugh and completely thrash them. Anything under fiendish is pish. Although some people have trouble finishing them, let alone get a good time. But hell, it's geekish. Yet if it can get people wasting their time in a mentally enhancing way, I'm all for it. Beats the hell outta crosswords...

Can think of more interesting ways to pass my time to be perfectly honest. It's the kind of thing, as monkey_man says that I remember doing as a child. Suppose if I was really bored without any other means of entertainment it would be suffice, but other than that I would rather scratch my rear or something else equally challenging.

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

tnc wrote:
> munn wrote:
> I love how every single person who discovers there's numbers in it
> thinks it some sort of maths.
>
> It's just numbers, it could be letters, or shapes, or anything that
> looks distinctively different.
>
> "Logic" is the word you're looking for

I think the phrase you're looking for is "I'm an idiot, I'll go away now".

Neither do i, he was just stating what you could replace the numbers with, so therefore its not maps.
He wasnt trying to say you have to use logic to solve the puzzle.

I don't think it is

munn wrote:
> I love how every single person who discovers there's numbers in it
> thinks it some sort of maths.
>
> It's just numbers, it could be letters, or shapes, or anything that
> looks distinctively different.

"Logic" is the word you're looking for

Is it just me, or did anyone else do these when they were a kid? I remember doing these about 10 years ago in a puzzle book. There were just puzzles back then, not a phenomenon.

What set off the huge explosion of it though?

I walked into Waterstones the other day and noticed about 13 different Sudoku books littered on the "best seller section".

Entered WHSmiths - The same

Most of the large supermarkets as well.

It's insane!

I used to do it in my paper then it turned into this massive thing.

Still fun though