The new addicting puzzle - sudoku!
 

while presentations were going on in my class today, a group of us were sitting in the back playing this puzzle game. i believe its the newest craze in india right now. its called
sudoku

fuck that thing man :mad:

I'm confused how to do this thing...

My little brothers in high school have huge books of those things they do...they love them. I don't get them though.

They have Sudoku puzzles in the newspapers here every day. Very addictive!

the purpose of the puzzle is to arrange the numbers 1-9 into the little box accordingly. however, you must also have 1-9 in each column AND row for the entire big box.

i got through the easy stage in 20 minutes.

They are in the NY Post and Daily News, too. I see lopts of folks doing them, but I've never tried...

Wow. I am working on the first puzzle now.... Now productivity is shot.

yea.....NO

I don't like these....even though I love logic puzzles, these...not so much.

I do acknowledge that these are probably better logic puzzles than the ones that I do (word puzzles)....I see numbers...automatically, I tune them out.

They remind of those Japanese puzzles with the numbers and you have to color in a pattern/picture of some sort....and I don't do well in those either.

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ok so I just changed my mind....I really like this, I need to get paper and pencil version....

That post was hilarious!!!! :)

OK. This is driving me insane.

Sudoku is HUGE in my office, but then again I work with actuaries so they love numbers. Make sure you start out with an easy if you're just learning b/c some of difficult ones can take you forever to do.

I completed one!:)

Easy: 5 minutes, 5 seconds

Medium: 6 minutes, 16 seconds

Hard: 5 minutes, 36 seconds

Evil: 6 minutes, 6 seconds

i know you cheated and asked for help at every step.

It took me 17 minutes and 1 second to finish the EASY one...shit i don't wanna see what would happen if I tried to "evil" one...lol

The more you do them, the easier they get. My record right now on the medium is 5 minutes and a few seconds. Top 6% baby!!! :)

My co-worker gave me one of these this weekend. It was kind of fun, once. But I don't think I would do them all the time.

I've mastered these things :D My best time today was 3 minutes and 9 seconds. Top 2% :)

To get these fast times are you doing pencil and paper versions? Or online where the computer tells you the number is right or wrong?

I do both. The online ones I do at websudoku.com don't tell you right or wrong unless you choose to click on it. If you click it and have one wrong, though, you can't find out your percentile. I realized that once and stopped using it.

i cant get even the easy one!!!! its addiciting.. im determined now

Congratulations! You solved the Sudoku in 8 minutes, 24 seconds!

There is a daily suduko site and you can have them emailed to you. (yeah, I'm a geek at heart). A bunch of newspapers across the country are sponsoring Suduko tournaments with championships to take place in Madison Square Garden. The best (ie hardest) Suduko puzzles are in books.

We just got a set for our son-in-law and now he's addicted...whoops.

The 6th grade GT teacher is using them with her class. My son is pretty good. I guess it's time to start coming up with names for the kids as did Carnation with her "nation.":) I'll have to think of appropriate nicknames

New?
 

My dad started doing those when he was in Korea in the 60s. He said they were even in American papers back then.

I like Su Do Ku, but it's not new by any means.

Re: New?
 

I think it's based on a 17th century mathematical equation or so I heard....

Re: Re: New?
 

That is possible. I never researched how it started.

I'm just still so shocked at how many people are doing them now. It's great: Dad and I found new books to get, before we were just xeroxing old newspaper clippings and doing them over and over.

Also, it got all the people out of my crossword puzzle section of B&N, for the first time in months, it's not completely picked over.

Are the numbers supposed to add up to something at the end of each row or column?

No. they just can't be repeated in the row column or 3x3 box

ie.
456 789 123
123 456 789
567 891 234

789 123 456
234 567 891
678 912 345

891 234 567
345 678 912
912 345 678


Although as I am writing this they all do add up to 45 because the same digits are always used 9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=45

I got the hard puzzle in 7:21!

ROME (AFP) - Sudoku enthusiasts from 13 countries will flock to Italy next week for the gripping number puzzle's first world championship, the organisers said.

"Sudoku has become in a very short time one of the favourite pastimes of millions of players throughout the world," said Adeline Berthaux, of French puzzle magazine company Keesings, sponsors of the event.

"There's been a huge increase in the number of tournaments and so it's legitimate to have countries where Sudoku has become such a phenomenon participating in a world championship."

Players will face off on Friday March 10 in the Tuscan town of Lucca for a session lasting three hours and 45 minutes for long, short and varied Sudoku challenges. The 16 survivors will play off in the final the following day.

Millions of players around the world have been playing the logic game since a 60-year-old retired New Zealand judge, Wayne Gould, made it popular -- although its origins are believed to back to the 18th century.

The craze really took off after Gould proposed it to the London Times, and Sudoko is now reproduced in some 400 daily newspapers around the world.

Participating countries in the world championships are Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Slovakia and Turkey.

now i'm addicted. thanks very much :mad:

Sudoku is very good, but I'm crap at number so I never get the series right!

OK obviously I am a few years behind but once I figured out the process I get it . . .

I LOVE THIS GAME - no spelling - no addition, or subtraction - no math - only deductive reasoning really.

People, give this game a chance and you will never accomplish anything else again ever in your life, but you will look smart to people who don't understand the game.