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Gothamist loves puzzles. In high school we were one of those kids who sat in the back of the room and did the Times crossword (ok, so that could describe most of our high school, but that's Stuy for you). And so it's no surprise that we've become completely addicted to Su Doku this summer. What does surprise us is that the game seems to be sweeping the nation. According to USA Today (which also publishes the game) Su Doku books are flying off the shelves. Where three weeks ago there were no books on the topic on their book list, now there are six.
The game appears really simple: You get an 81-square grid broken down into nine smaller nine-square grids. Each row, column, and smaller grid must contain the numbers 1-9. That's it. You can find two boards everyday in the Post (plus an additional two Grand Master challenge boards every Sunday and Monday) and one in USA Today, or you can just play the web version here. Not to mention all of the downloadable versions out there.
What do you think of Su Doku? Any good tips or tricks?
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Another great Su Doku link is Flickr Su Doku, which uses Flickr photos instead of numbers.
this is an awesome game. I love to su doku. I su doku all night long.
Tried it, can't do it
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SU DOKU is incredible - I was in London last year and EVERYONE is addicted to it, The Times has released a series of books with different levels from easy to fiendish...
excellent.
I too have recently been obessed with this game, I play online at http://www.websudoku.com/. Literally billions of puzzles available in any difficulty.
Hi, Gothamist. Long-time reader, first-time writer... I'm a New Yorker living in London (also a Londonist reader) and this Su Doku thing is insane over here. I was happy read that it's big at home too, so when I get back it'll be waiting. And I just bought my first book at a Borders here, so I can stop buying the paper everyday (who needs news anyway). When I first saw it, I thought 'nuts to this'. But once I stared at it for a few minutes and saw the logical way to eliminate boxes - in a very methodical fashion, not trial and error - it's more fun because you can actually complete it. And even on the most difficult puzzles, it works and doesn't require too much brain power. I guess it's like a Rubik cube, but less 'beautiful mind'-ish.
The beauty of Su doku is that it's just a very elongated form of memory. You just eliminate every word or number that doesn't work. It's really simple and for the feeble minded masses who think they are accomplishing something when they don't know that everyone else can do it as well.
Another egotistical stuy kid trying to drop the name stuyvesant every time they get a chance to. Have you no shame? Stuy sucks. My sister went there and now she's like Hilary Clinton. I like how stuy kids try to play it cool with the whole "oh stuy wasn't all that" but never miss a chance to rub it in.
What? you went to Stuy? why is your grammer so bad? hahaha. You did crosswords in stuy? so are you trying to say that you are smarter than everyone else at stuyvesant because you did puzzles why everyone else toiled away? and su doku does suck. There's only 10 numbers that you need to eliminate. if 1 doesn't work use 2 and so on til you get to 9. sooo simple.
You went to stuy? the harvard of high schools? and now you are like some associate editor of Gothamist? what happened? went to community college? way to cling on to your glory days
I really liked Su Doku until I discovered Paint By Numbers (http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/cgi-bin/pbn.cgi/index.html). It's similar in that it's also a numbers puzzle, but in the end you get a picture. When you finish a Su Doku puzzle, what do you get? Nothing.
Uh, sorry that my reference to stuy offended some of you so much. It was an anecdote, a bad one yes, but seriously, get over it. Now that that is out of the way, just for fun, let me see if I can hit some of the other points.
Bridget: If I wanted to name drop stuy every chance I got, then trust me, this wouldn't have been the first time I mentioned it in the month I've been doing this. Further, I seriously doubt that there is any connection between your sister being like Hilary [sic] Clinton and stuy. Maybe she just didn't want to be like her sister?
jack: Why is my grammar so bad? Practice, practice, practice. And no, in fact I was saying the opposite. almost everyone I knew at stuy did puzzles and toiled. I never said I did well there, just that I went there. which brings us to
jo: You got it right on the nose.
Finally, Matt, thanks for the awesome flickr su doku link.
hey, last i heard the university of chicago isn't a community college...
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