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The G2 supplement in today's Guardian has a "hand-crafted" sudoku on every page - that's 20 in total. Just in case you're an addict...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Sudoku? That's sooo yesterday. I can do 'em in my sleep.
Actually, I don't really like them that much. The easy ones are just that but the hard ones just seem impenetrable. I haven't yet worked out all the logic rules and tricks you can use to solve them.
Anyway, sudoku is not really the sort of logic puzzle I like. I prefer the larger scale puzzles, like tsunami, that you can chip away at over time and get much more reward from.
Dave | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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i love sudoku. the harder the better.
Katie | 13.05.05 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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The guy who sits opposite me at work does the Times one every day - except he's written an exec on his laptop to solve them for him, which seems to defeat the object to me.
Alan | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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I got hooked for a month or so before xmas.
But once you've worked out a few simple rules they are all pretty straight forward, the only real difference between easy and hard being that on easy there are usually five or six numbers that can be filled in at any time whereas on the hard ones it may only be one.
thom | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 12:12 p.m. | #
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I really like them, was given a small book of Japanese ones ("hand crafted" apparently, and increasing in difficulty as they go along) and have been a bit addicted ever since.
I enjoy tsunami as well but to me a grid full of the correct numbers is a much greater reward than the picture that results from a completed tsunami puzzle. I must admit I'm a numerical anorak which may explain it (even though sudoku really has nothing to do with numbers -- it's far, far harder when the numbers are replaced with 9 unique symbols).
The Dunce | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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PS I agree that having a computer solve them seems an entirely pointless pursuit.
thom | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 12:23 p.m. | #
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The challenge for me was to write the computer program to solve them (it is not trivial). I have hardly done one since except the occasional one marked "very difficult" just to check that my program will solve all cases.
Rick | 13.05.05 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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well, typically behind the times for someone living in the middle of nowhere (Frankfurt) with no internet access (ahem), today was the first time I ever heard of Sudoko. But without checking any hints and tips first, I ploughed in with today's "medium" offering in the Daily Sudoko, and completed it in about half an hour. Is that good or bad?
Wayne | 13.05.05 - 2:00 p.m. | #
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Hello according to today's TIMES the Daily Mail launched their version of sudoko (then called CodeNumber)3 days after the TIMES launched sudoko.
The Daily Mail changed the name to Sudoko yesterday.
Apparently.
I love 'em whatevere they are called. The TIMES ones also increase in difficulty throughout the week.
verity74 | 13.05.05 - 2:30 p.m. | #
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I nearly wrote about all this yesterday, but you've done a much more thorough job. I've been printing out the large-format PDF version of the Telegraph's grid each day this week, and actually thought today's was the easiest. Or maybe I'm just getting the knack.
G2's accompanying blurb today made me laugh out loud over the breakfast table... but their grids are far too small. I need to be able to scribble "possibles" in the corners of each square first...
mike | Homepage | 13.05.05 - 3:17 p.m. | #
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There a version for mobile phones now. Check out sudoku for mobile phones at http://www.sudokumobile.net
Only 3 quid for 90 puzzles as aposed to The Times charging you £4.50 for 10.
bargain !
Matt | 29.05.05 - 1:43 a.m. | #
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ah sudoku, are they still popular?
the funny thing is the Japanese newspapers ( at least the English Language ones) don't have sudoku!
( just reading back through one of your archive pages at random!)
Jon Allen | Homepage | 27.12.10 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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