Spending Time on Sudoku
Lots of Swedes spend (waste?) their time in the public transport on solving Sudokus. According to Wikipedia a Sudoku puzzle consists of ...
However, as an explorer of the Swedish culture it is naturally that I did one of those Sudokus, too. But I must admit that I prefer to read a good book or the newspaper when travelling with the public transport.
Sudoku from Stockholm City, Wednesday 2005-09-28, page 40. Click on the image to get the solution.
[1] Sudoku on Wikipedia (2005-10-01)
[2] Newspapers featuring Sudoku on Wikipedia (2005-10-01)
You can find these kind of puzzles in many daily newspapers[2] and some people even buy books containing nothing else than Sudokus.... a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"). Some cells already contain numbers, known as "givens". The goal is to fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1–9 exactly once. [...]. [1].
However, as an explorer of the Swedish culture it is naturally that I did one of those Sudokus, too. But I must admit that I prefer to read a good book or the newspaper when travelling with the public transport.
Sudoku from Stockholm City, Wednesday 2005-09-28, page 40. Click on the image to get the solution.
[1] Sudoku on Wikipedia (2005-10-01)
[2] Newspapers featuring Sudoku on Wikipedia (2005-10-01)
posted by Hendrik at 17:12
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3 Comments:
Maybe you need to try a really nice version, in Flash, where you can choose how tough the game should be for you:
www.sudokudaily.net
Thanks for the suggestion, but I never said that it was to easy for me (in fact I needed quite a long time for the solution). I just think that reading a good book or a newspaper (no yp) is much more interesting.
By the way when I read your comment I noticed that the link to the solution of the Sudoku was broken, so it should work by now.
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