This has popped up a number of places, most notably Joystiq. A recent Fox Trot comic strip featured a Sudoku puzzle where the numbers were replaced by equations. It’s pretty funny. On Joystiq, they’ve solved all of the equations and turned it into a normal Sudoku. If you want to be hard core about solving it, you might want to check out the strip first.
Tags: foxtrot,puzzles,sudokuSudoku by Microsoft
I came across this amusing post on the blog Creating Passionate Users that imagines what would happen if sudoku were (re)designed by Microsoft. I grabbed the image below from the site.
The post also has a brief discussion of how the puzzle’s simplicity makes it appealing.
Tags: comics,foxtrot,puzzles,sudoku
