The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[Philip Roe]

The Times claims that killer sudoku is called "Samunamudare" in Japanese. This is possible but it seems unlikely. There is no mention of it on www.puzzles.jp. Does anybodu have any information? If this is a new Japanese word (it is not in Kenkyusha) how is it written? [/code]

[jf27]

Isn't it samunamupure or somnambupure?

[Lardarse]

samunamupure is the generally agreed name...

[Philip Roe]

samunamupure is the generally agreed name...

OK but how is it written in Japanese?

[jf27]

OK but how is it written in Japanese?

Have a look at
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sumnumberplace/
You can probably figure it out from that.

[Philip Roe]

OK but how is it written in Japanese?

Have a look at
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sumnumberplace/
You can probably figure it out from that.

Many thanks jf27. The website you gave me, which was new to me, immediately gives an answer which, to me, is interesting and surprising and had me kicking myself for not seeing it. Samunampure as it is transcribed there (without the second u) into katakana, the syllabary for onamatopoeic and foreign words, is a loan word from English. Samu = sum, nam is the first syllable of number and pure is the first two syllables of puresu. which is the English word place: sum number place. Japanese often makes English words unintelligible. Karaoke is kara = vacant, open (as in karate, open hand) + oke, short for okesutora, orchestra.

[Lardarse]

Samunampure as it is transcribed there (without the second u) into katakana

I don't know where taht second u comes from, but I saw someone else using it.