Fads + Quizzes = SUDOKU!

Now I’m not sure if you’ve all been keeping up with the latest trends*, but Sudoku is like the newest and best thing in the world of fads and quizzes.

For those of you that have just tuned into The Missing Ingredient I am totally a fad and quizzes bitch.

Examples?

OK

Fads:
- in my youth I had;
o Collette style bike shorts and a Hypercolour t-shirt,
o a Cabbage Patch Doll,
o a Bug Catcher,
o a Rigadoon,
o a ra-ra skirt,
o a Crimper… and many other fabulous and eventually irrelevant/embarrassing products.

BTW, how totally cool was I?!

Quizzes:

- in the present I have;
o often listened to a super quiz on talk back radio (at midnight)
o spent my working hours deliberating over comical pop-culture email quizzes
o spent Saturday afternoons doing the 9 letter word target in The Age
o dragged my friends and neighbours to Trivia Night’s at various pubs
o in times of unemployment bought That's Life! magazine to enter in Quiz Competitions

See how I love them both!

So it’s inevitable that I become obsessed with Sudoku. This is really my first dabbling with a number quiz, but I’ve had a go and I think I’ll be ok with that. Hey – I did study Calculus and Statistics at Uni for 4 years, surely this will present no challenge for a person with my untouchable capabilities. Whahahahahaa.

Anyway, so if you’ve missed the hype what you’ll get is this:



And what you need to do is make sure every 3 by 3 box, every complete column and every complete row has every number from 1 – 9 in it, no repeats (obviously). Easy, huh?! No freakin’ way! Plus as you get better there are different levels! Sick.

So you get it. And all this talking about it is making my feet want to move towards the lunch room and hunt down today’s puzzle… when you’ve got an itch scratch it, I say…




*the Herald Scum had a big article telling us that it’s a trend, ergo…