Those of you who live in the UK don’t need to read any further. You already know what Sudoku is, since all the major newspapers have been publishing it for weeks now and a sizable proportion of the nation seems to be addicted to it. For the rest of us, Sudoku is a grid-based game, originating in Japan, with a simple rule:
Fill in the grid so thatIt really is that simple. There is a web site http://sudoku.com/ where you can get more information and play the game, or you can take a look in pretty well any British newspaper, or take a look at some of these sites:
every row,
every column, and
every 3×3 box
contains the digits 1 through 9.
or you can play it with letters at BBC Newsnight. And if you haven’t wasted enough time yet, download it to play on your Palm Pilot (freeware).
Update (2005-05-17):
Vowe says the Palm application doesn’t work – I haven’t had time to try it out, as just after I posted this, OS X (Filevault?) destroyed part of my operating system and I decided to do a clean re-install of everything, which took all of yesterday. Pretty well everything is now restored – I have just one or two more programs to install this evening after work.
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Check this out: A Dashboard Sudoku
I think I forgot to hit the Submit button on the first comment.
The Palm application is crap. 50k executable and 400k Java runtime. And all it does is throw a java.lang error.
You are right – thanks for pointing me at the dashboard widget – I missed that one!
Sorry to hear that your disk was trashed. Stay away from FileVault. I am hearing some bad vibes from engineers.
BTW: Your site does not store my contact details. Very tedious.
Just found this:
For your Mobile
Seems pretty good
I will have to try that tomorrow – thanks for the tip!