Word: sudoku
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...really want to go to school with a bunch of sluts?” as Amy chooses whether to go to a school for pregnant girls. The awkward references to once-popular culture are even better: Ben advises his friends that “Dex isn’t sudoku,” and Graces’ dad angrily advises his daughter’s ex-boyfriend Jack, “Why don’t you buy a vowel and go home?” (I have yet to figure out what this means.) The writers and actors...
...Orleans Times-Picayune asked people to write in their advice for future evacuations. Their responses read like poetry, and you won't find most of them on any Red Cross checklist: my own pillow, Sudoku, shoes other than flip-flops, solar-powered garden lights, cat litter (for the humans), the kids' immunization records, the good bottles of wine we were saving for special occasions, and Xanax...
...While periods of combat were both intense and harrowing, the soldier's downtime could be incredibly mundane. In one photomontage, accompanied by narration, soldiers describe how they passed their time. Besides listening to their iPods and playing video games and Sudoku, they scheduled four-day bow and arrow competitions using tin cans and wooden posts as targets, with the winner receiving a bag of potato chips. Tired of eating their 4,000-calorie ration boxes that contained dried foodstuffs and chocolate, the soldiers express joy when friendly locals provide Afghan bread, onion and chilies...
...philosophy is that crosswords should embrace everything in life. When I started there were people who did not know much about the modern world so they found my puzzles harder and they wrote to complain. These people either died, or have given up on me. 11.FM: Sudoku seems to be on the wane. What are your predictions for the next big puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku...
...time it takes you to write on your own Facebook wall, Harvard chemistry graduate student Thomas M. Snyder can complete the average Sudoku puzzle—and he has an entry in the Guinness World Records to prove it. Snyder also had about this amount of time to dwell on his victory in the final round of the World Sudoku Championship, held two weeks ago in Prague. With just over a minute left on the clock, Snyder sat back while his contenders struggled away, and mused, “Wow, I’ve just won the championship...