So, Sudoku isn't Japanese?
Reading an article in
theSun
yesterday gives me the impression that sudoku's Swedish, American, New
Zealand, British and Japanese promoters have all a claim in its birth
and popularity that stretch across two centuries. And it was a computer
software that propelled it to stardom today!
I first saw the sudoku craze in London last year – from airport
lounge to bookshops and newspaper pages that syndicate crossword
puzzles – thinking that it has spread from Japan to England. Wrong.
From the write-up I now realise that, last year, sudoku became a
regular feature in a newspaper in New York, and that completes sudoku's
westward travel around the world, from 1979 to 2005, starting from
America to Japan, and then from Japan to England.
Read the full article here.