Why are people so obssesed with Sudoko?

Question

The game is so ******* stupid&BORING: I would MUCH rather study the topology of function spaces or anything else than that stupid ****!

helmut firs' off you need to check your tone wit me.

Answer 1

Hong Kong judge Wayne Gould, 59, a New Zealander, saw a partly completed puzzle in a Japanese bookshop. Over six years he developed a computer program to produce puzzles quickly.[27] Knowing that British newspapers have a long history of publishing crosswords and other puzzles, he promoted Sudoku to The Times in Britain, which launched it on 12 November 2004 (calling it Su Doku).

It was rapidly introduced by The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Independent. By April and May 2005 the puzzle became a national phenomenon and was introduced to several other national British newspapers including The Guardian, The Sun (where it was labelled Sun Doku), and The Daily Mirror.[citation needed]

The rapid rise of Sudoku in Britain from relative obscurity to a front-page feature in national newspapers attracted commentary in the media and parody (such as when The Guardian's G2 section advertised itself as the first newspaper supplement with a Sudoku grid on every page [28]). Recognizing the different psychological appeals of easy and difficult puzzles, The Times introduced both side by side on 20 June 2005. From July 2005, Channel 4 included a daily Sudoku game in their Teletext service. On 2 August, the BBC's programme guide Radio Times featured a weekly Super Sudoku.
The world's first live TV Sudoku show, 1 July 2005, Sky One.
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The world's first live TV Sudoku show, 1 July 2005, Sky One.

The world's first live TV Sudoku show, Sudoku Live, was broadcast on 1 July 2005 on Sky One. It was presented by Carol Vorderman. Nine teams of nine players (with one celebrity in each team) representing geographical regions competed to solve a puzzle. Each player had a hand-held device for entering numbers corresponding to answers for four cells. The audience at home was in a separate interactive competition.

Early in 2006, sudoku was brought to a younger generation for the DS, a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Sudoku made a humble feature in Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, an educational game developed by Japanese neuroscientist Ryūta Kawashima. With the popularity of sudoku rising, a game called Sudoku Gridmaster was released focusing solely on the logic-based numerical puzzle. At approximately the same time, Sudoku Mania was released. However, compared to the success of the previous two titles, Sudoku Mania received generally negative reviews from gaming critics and gamers.

Sudoku is now also a very popular part of the games available for mobile phones. Gameloft, Guardian Unlimited, World Sudoku League and Playcom are some of the distributors.

Answer 2

Whether or not you find the problem interesting, If you lack the imagination to see that there is a problem there I suspect you are not such a hot mathematician. As a math student (honors graduate from an ivy league university; graduate degree from big 10) I find some problems interest me and some don't, but I certainly can recognize problems as interesting even if I don't like them.

Try looking at some of the unsolved problems related to sudoku; can you recognize if 2 problems are equivalent? (answer: I doubt it) Can you write a computer program to generate new puzzles? It is not as easy as it sounds. How about a program to solve a puzzle without resorting to guessing? I bet you don't understand the problem well enough to do that.

I don't know your level, but math is not just theorems and proofs. The real work is done by people with imagination and curiosity. When you can do all the problems in your textbook no one will be really impressed. Good luck on solving problem 17c on page 217, I am sure you will find that a lot of fun.

Answer 3

Some people are obsesed and think it is new. This game has been around since 1950! I personally am bored with Suduko, I stoped doing those puzzles on a regular basis 5 years ago. I am addicted to Cross Sums which now has the name Kukoro. (By the way Sudoko used to be called Number Places). Kukoro is more challeging and uses a lot more logic.

Answer 4

I like them but what I don't understand is why do you hate them. No one makes you do them do they? Have fun studying the topology of function spaces. Which is the same thing btw...

Answer 5

Buy the scolastic books for infos about Sudoko.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Are you always this rude? What is it that you fear that causes you to put down the game using profanity? I happen to like the game. It reminds me that patience and logical thinking are virtues. The other answerer is quite correct. No one is forcing you to play the game.

Answer 8

It's a matter of personal preference, and coincidentally a lot of people are into it. It's like crossword puzzles.

You just happen to be one of the people who don't like it, and that's fine. It's like somebody asking something like:

"WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS WATCH !@#$ING MOVIES WHAT A WASTE OF TIME"

its spelled Sudoku btw.

Answer 9

Just cause you can't solve them is no reason to put it down. It passes the time when there's nothing else to do, and if you do the more difficult ones, they actually make you think.

Answer 10

I wish I knew. I heard about the hype, tried it, and was disappointed. Not very fun in my opinion, kind of annoying. Stupid numbers!