sudoku on steroids
February 9, 2009, 4:54 pm
nyt has a new puzzle. i’m more of a crossword girl myself and sudoku has always been really boring to me, but the new “ken ken” puzzle is fun. yay for arithmetic.
KenKen shares some properties with sudoku. Each is a pure logic challenge in which numbers are filled in the squares of a grid. Unlike sudoku, though, in which the numbers act solely as symbols (letters or pictures would work as well), KenKen requires arithmetic.
The rules are simple: Fill the grid with digits so as not to repeat a digit within any row or column, and so the digits within each heavily outlined box (called a cage) go together using the arithmetic operation shown to make the target number indicated.
