sudoku / granada

I just got a random invitation to audition for "pilot episode of new quiz
show"

<quote>
You don't have to be the world's top sudoku expert - just a fan of
sudoku, over the age of 18, and able to do an easy or medium level
difficulty sudoku puzzle.

There will also be a general knowledge element to the show.
</quote>

Jeez, even if there were a live sex element to the show I'd be unlikely to
watch never mind take part.

I don't understand the popularity of sudoku, once you work out a suitable
algorithm (which takes about 15 minutes) the rest is just a boring search
for impossible number placements.

I can see the popularity for papers and magazines, it's almost trivial to
generate the problems using a computer (and each single game becomes many
more because you can rotate and reflect the cells many ways to generate
similar but visually different puzzles) and they don't have to pay crossword
compilers.

--
Geoff Lane

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