Jason Barrie Morley

Media reports tell us that the ‘Sudoku‘ craze is sweeping the nation. While I’m not too convinced about the reality of this, it did lead me to have a somewhat heated discussion with my flatmate and (later and slightly less heated) with a family friend. In this discussion, I argued that such puzzles were a complete waste of my time as it was trivial (yes, I did use that worryingly Cambridgidian word) to write a computer program to solve them.

One thing led to another and a number of hours down the line, my program still cannot solve Sudoku puzzles… the shame of it all!