Su-Do-Ku!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The latest craze.. the major buzz word after 'blog' - sudoku!!! The whole world seems to be solving this place-the-number puzzle!!!

For those unfamiliar with the game, Wikipedia tells us sudoku "is a placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numeral from 1 through 9 in each cell of a grid, most frequently a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various numerals given in some cells (the "givens"). Each row, column and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability. Its grid layout is reminiscent of other newspaper puzzles like crosswords and chess problems. Sudoku initially became popular in Japan in 1986 and attained international popularity in 2005."

To my mind, sudoku gained popularity early this year, when newspapers started publishing sudoku puzzles. Today I find sudoku everywhere even in the local kannada or tamil dailies!!

I AM addicted to it!! I think the biggest plus in it is anyone can solve them! It requires no knowledge like some weird crossword where you gotto know the colloquial french equivalent of a word as simple as 'please'! ("S'il vous plait" , it is! Now, how did i know this!!)

Well, some say they dont get satisfaction solving the puzzle. "Oh Cmon! All that you have in the end is 1 to 9... it sucks!!". Dont worry guys, you will be joining me soon!!!!

My blog will now have a link to sudoku-for-the-day!!!!