logic game taking the world by storm. see today’s Taipei Times or google it.
SuDoku is a simple but addictive game.
Fill in the empty squares with numbers 1 through 9. You can’t put the same number more than once in any one row, column, or 3x3 box. When the puzzle is successfully completed there will be no empty squares and each number will appear once in every row, column, and 3x3 box. Over 300 thousand automatically generated puzzles of three levels of difficulty are provided. Alternatively you can enter and solve your own or published puzzles.
Does anyone know if bookstores here sell Sudoku books and what is the game puzzle called in Chinese?
Looks like someone else read the Taipei Times yesterday, and thought ‘that looks fun’.
I tried one last night. It’s a fun logic puzzle.
Brian
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]Looks like someone else read the Taipei Times yesterday, and thought ‘that looks fun’.
I tried one last night. It’s a fun logic puzzle.
Brian[/quote]
Yes, I get all my leisure info from the Taipei Times. Read that piece, like you, and said to meself, never heard of this puzzle game before but sounds like fun. I used the photo in the paper to try my hand at it, but now i want to know if there are any “blank” books that we can buy to play the game, or is it only avail on the Net at www.sudoku.com and what is it called in mandarin?
Leave it to the Japanese to rediscover a puzzle like this and reinvent it for postmodern man. And woman.
Here’s a couple for you:
sudokufun.com/sudoku.php
griffiths-jones.co.uk/sudoku/
sudoku.org.uk/
it moggles the bind!
slate.msn.com/id/2119796/nav/ais/
Good sudoku story here
MONEY QUOTE: I’ve been doing sudoku mostly on my computer, using the program at Sudoku.com. The real fun with this is the clock function. I try to beat my own times and solve the puzzles faster. (So far, I’ve gotten down to 19 minutes on the hardest setting.) When played this way
The game is called 數獨 in Chinese. They have them every day in the China Post as well.
The SUDOKU puzzle is now available daily in the Taiwan News, it started on Monday, June 27. [China Post does NOT publish sudoku game.]
Taiwan News carries it
It’s everywhere now! Amazing how quickly this fad got picked up from the UK frenzy first. Now the Taipei Times has introduced it on their comics page.
Note: The frontrunner for the 2005 word of the year is “sudoku,” the logic puzzle that has replaced crosswords as a favorite way to kill time over lunch break.
Here’s a local addict’s confessions:
taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar … 2003274327
Confessions of a sudoku addict in Taipei
By Diane Baker
It started off in a small way – just one hit a day. Something for the long ride home. For several weeks that was enough to keep me going. But then I heard that there was another source – one that would allow me to get a fix whenever I wanted. Less embarrassing, too, than having to make sure I had access to a fix everyday.
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