The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[skilly91]

The newspaper, bookstore, newsagents what is it? Fill me in!

[simes]

The radio, BBC radio 4.

[lunababy_moonchild]

The Daily Mail

Luna

[MCC]

The Times

[lisa]

I am from the United States and I came across my first sudoku in my local
newspaper's Friday magazine.

Lisa

[Anette]

I'm from Sweden and found it in the net version of a daily newspaper "Svenska dagbladet". Their sudokus are extremely easy, but there were refernces to different sudokus sites and then I found this fourm and from here also the sudokus in the Times.

[Finlip]

I found out about su doku last Thursday in our local newspaper. Since then I've solved a few puzzles in that paper and also a few online. But I neither have nor use any softwares. I'm really into this game though. I'd like to improve. I'm still to fail to solve a puzzle.

[scrose]

Almost a full month before they picked up daily Pappocom puzzles, the Globe and Mail ran an article from Agence France-Presse about the popularity of sudoku in Britain. The grid below was included as an example, and since then I've been hooked.

Code: Select all

 . . 1 | . . . | 9 . .
 . 5 . | . 6 . | . 2 .
 2 . . | 8 . 5 | . . 3
-------+-------+-------
 . . 7 | . 8 . | 4 . .
 . 4 . | 6 . 1 | . 7 .
 . . 2 | . 7 . | 8 . .
-------+-------+-------
 1 . . | 7 . 2 | . . 5
 . 2 . | . 9 . | . 6 .
 . . 8 | . . . | 2 . .

Updated: Found a hyperlink that has the complete article.

[angusj]

Sydney Morning Herald (non-pappocom).

My wife showed me a puzzle and I said words the the effect - "looks cute but not interested". However, when she started solving it herself I thought I'd give her a helping hand. The rest is history .

[Karyobin]

I've got this image in my head of simes sat in his kitchen attempting to solve sudoku as generated by Radio 4.

[jafosei]

Metafilter - May 10th 2005.

Someone posted a link to the Times' story "The Puzzle that ate the world" and a few other sites (including this site). It sounded good, so I tried it out and enjoyed it thoroughly.

[lunababy_moonchild]

Yeah, that's a point. Simes, how exactly did you solve a puzzle from Radio 4?

Luna

[simes]

Well I didn't say the radio provided a puzzle to solve... though it's an interesting idea. Radio sudoku, all mental solving, no paper allowed. Hmmm. Only for those with an IQ over.... oh say about 163 perhaps.

I heard a program about it while I was driving home from work, and it intriqued me enough to do a web search when I got home. I can't remember which sites I found, but it started me writing my own solver.

[udosuk]

I can imagine the radio announcer going:

"Here's today's sudoku problem: a 5 on row 1 column 2, 7 on row 2 column 5, ... Now the next caller who calls in within the next 5 minutes and reads out all 81 numbers in order can win the prize of 1000 pounds..."

Anyway I came across this puzzle years ago in some Japanese site but didn't pay much attention to it. Not until a couple months ago when it first appeared in Australia did I first set my hands onto it. I remember I solved all 5 of the first puzzles from the Daily Telegraph and got hooked ever since... Talk about love at second sight...

[VegHeadMoby]

Our local paper (Detroit, Michigan) started running puzzles in the paper and started out with a big article on the new hit, "Sudoku," and seeing as how I don't buy the paper every day, only once in a while, and then proceed to complete every puzzle in it that interests me, I tried Sudoku and then later followed their link to www.sudoku.com for the trial program. None of the handy books for travel are available in the US yet though.