Sunday, August 28, 2005

A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None from the New York Times - This can' be?

A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None - New York Times: "A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None
By WILL SHORTZ
IT is said that nature abhors a vacuum. As humans we seem to have an innate desire to fill up empty spaces. This might explain part of the appeal of sudoku, the new international craze, with its empty squares to be filled with digits.
Since April, when sudoku was introduced to the United States in The New York Post, more than half the leading American newspapers have begun printing one or more sudoku a day. No puzzle has had such a fast introduction in newspapers since the crossword craze of 1924-25.
A friend in New York reports that his elderly father, a lifelong reader of The Daily News, which does not yet print sudoku, has switched to The Post to get his daily fix. A correspondent reports buying three out-of-town newspapers a day for their sudoku. Truly addicted solvers choose from the dozens of books available, and do the puzzles obsessively, one after another.
Why sudoku? And why now?
The craze started in England last November, when Wayne Gould, a retired judge from New Zealand, persuaded The Times of London to print the puzzle. Judge Gould had seen sudoku in a Japanese puzzle magazine and written a computer program for creating sudoku at any desired level of difficulty.
Japanese puzzle magazines are filled with novel and ingenious logic puzzles. They are as popular in Japan as crosswords are in the United States. But Judge Gould saw two things in sudoku that set it apart: the rules, which can be stated in one sentence, and the size, which does not vary with degree of difficulty.
Every puzzle craze in history has come along at an opportune time, and the same is true of sudoku. The world's first puzzle craze"

I have fell in love with this Sudoku.

Friday, August 26, 2005

I am finally doing it!!!

This begins the journey into Sudoku Secrets and my passion for the puzzle