![]() ![]() Hot on the heels of The Indie 500 crossword tournament last weekend, the UK is also gearing up for a major puzzle event: The UK Sudoku Championship! You can also share your pictures with us on Instagram, friend us on Facebook, check us out on Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr, and explore the always-expanding library of PuzzleNation apps and games on our website! Thanks for visiting PuzzleNation Blog today! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on everything PuzzleNation! ![]() Apparently, it has been, since Ripley’s has yet to mention them a second time. That’s nice.Īnd here’s hoping their Sudoku solving has been smooth sailing ever since. I’m just saying.Īs it turns out, the inmates had made a few key mistakes, mostly in the middle section, and since they apparently solve in ink, it made things much harder.īut, in a lovely response, the staff at The Exeter Express and Echo promised to make Monday papers available to the inmates as well, so they can double-check their answers next time. I don’t mean to impugn the Sudoku skills of the Exeter Jail population. I suspect, given time, you would complete it as well. But I did complete this puzzle, difficult as it was. In all honesty, I’m not the strongest or the fastest Sudoku solver. Here, I’ll post it here, in case you want to try your hand at it yourself: So, naturally, I had to see whether this Sudoku puzzle was as unsolvable as the inmates claimed.įinding a copy of the puzzle wasn’t hard. Yes, The Exeter Express and Echo is printed twice a week, and since the answers to Thursday’s puzzles appear on Monday, and the inmates don’t have access to Monday’s issues, they were unable to check their own work. Here is the message the prisoners sent to the editor of The Exeter Express and Echo:ĭear Sir/Madam, I am sadly writing this letter in A LOT of disappointment.Īs you will see, I’ve enclosed last week’s Sudoko page and we (along with 84 other prisoners) believe you printed a ‘hard’ Sudoku which is IMPOSSIBLE to complete.Īs being prisoners we are only aloud access to Thursday’s issue, so we couldn’t verify the truth. Everything from world records and peculiar habits to once-in-a-lifetime events and mind-bending coincidences are found between the covers of these collections.Įighty-six prisoners at Exeter Jail in Devon, England, signed a formal letter of complaint claiming that a Sudoku puzzle in the local newspaper - the Exeter Express and Echo - on May 21, 2015, was impossible to solve. I was reading one of the most recent editions of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, those delightful compendiums of all things amazing, weird, and unlikely. Answers are provided in the back of the book.Even when I’m not thinking about puzzles or intending to learn about puzzles, puzzles find me. USA Today Sudoku contains 200 puzzles categorized into five skill levels. Similar to a crossword puzzle, Sudoku is a series of nine 3 x 3 grids using each digit from 1 to 9 only once. The game is based solely on numbers, but requires no math skills whatsoever. Once you’ve completed one USA Today Sudoku puzzle, you won’t be able to stop playing them.Ī typical Sudoku puzzle can be completed in 10 to 30 minutes, depending on a player’s ability and the puzzle’s level of difficulty. No adding or subtracting, no twists, no surprises: To solve Sudokus a puzzler just needs logic. According to a recent Newsweek article, Sudoku is the biggest puzzle craze to hit America since the Rubik’s Cube in the 1980s. As evidenced by the increasing hordes of fans, it is not only challenging, but addictive as well. Millions of Americans aged eight through 88 are hooked on Sudoku. And there’s usually a rush at the very end, filling in the last squares, which gives you a great feeling. It’s a perfect amount of time to spend on a puzzle, anywhere from five minutes to half an hour. ‘You can learn in 10 seconds, and yet the logic needed to solve is challenging. ![]()
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