Kakuro

[grandpascorpion]

Hello,

I didn't see any threads on this. I'm a big fan.
Just curious if anyone is into this type of puzzle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuro

[Prime95]

I'm guilty. Prime95 would be 3 times faster than it currently is if I didn't waste time at http://www.indigopuzzles.com every day.

[mfgoode]

Originally Posted by Prime95

I'm guilty. Prime95 would be 3 times faster than it currently is if I didn't waste time at http://www.indigopuzzles.com every day.

Thanks to you and Grandpascorpion for bringing this up.

Sudoku is daily printed in the news papers here and I could never get the hang of it. Yet I see a lot of school going kids who are fanatics to solve their puzzles.

Now that I have got the websites I will become a member.

Puzzles are not to be sneered at as a waste of time as they lead to some very deep mathematical insights.

Fermat, Blaise Pascal and many other math'cians productively spent a lot of time on such. As a matter of fact the theory of probability was spawned by
such problems.

John Nash in our times got the Nobel for his work on game theory which is very significant for the economic world.

Thanks once again!

Mally :coffee

[grandpascorpion]

Originally Posted by Prime95

I'm guilty. Prime95 would be 3 times faster than it currently is if I didn't waste time at http://www.indigopuzzles.com every day.

Thanks for the link, George

[grandpascorpion]

George,

Have you seen this site?

http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/

Fillimino looks like a very intriguing game.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by grandpascorpion

Fillimino looks like a very intriguing game.

An adaptation of polyominoes (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polyomino.html).

[petrw1]

Originally Posted by grandpascorpion

George,

Have you seen this site?

http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/

Fillimino looks like a very intriguing game.

My son is a serious Math / Computer / Puzzle nut. He has one year left for a Combined Computer Science / Math double major degree.

He introduced me to nikoli; apparently a Japanese site; managed by the people who created Kakuro, Sudoku and many other such logical puzzle games (all thoses featured on this site). According to my son they hand make all their puzzles; ensure they are solvable and ensure there is a unique solution. Try them all.

P.S. Anyone heard of the Schramm Loewner Evolution? My son's summer job is as a research assistant to a Math Professor who got a Research grant to ... I guess I would say do research.

[grandpascorpion]

Sudoku was invented by an American guy but Nikoli are great innovators in the puzzle world.