Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Really? The Sudokus I've played hardly ever had
> the
> diagonal part, until one day four puzzles like
> that
> were included in a puzzle book, and I enjoyed the
> new
> challenge.. but after two puzzles I had it
> mastered.
> Sudoku is too limited and predictable for me now,
> and
> I think that's why I switched over to cryptic
> crosswords.
>
> *cough* It seems to me you don't know what Sudoku
> is.

Could be.. snortlaugh.. lol.

Maybe the European version is more challenging or
something. I'd be interested to know.

In my puzzle books, Sudoku is a square containing
nine squares, each with nine squares where you have
to find missing numbers so that all the numbers from
1 to 9 in each square are different, and all the
numbers in each vertical and horizontal line across
the entire big square are different. For a long
time, these puzzles didn't have a diagonal component,
but one day there was a page with four Sudokus that
had that extra diagonal component, which was very
cool and made solving both easier and more difficult
at the same time.

I like Sudoku but it's not challenging any more because
there's only so much the puzzlemaker can do with it, and
the solving is somewhat limited and predictable as well.
But I expect that there are still some Sudokus in my
future, along with Kakuros.

Sue