Time Top 100 – Wayne Gould Shoots My Credibility – Sudoku
Here’s another dude who found his name on the list of Time’s Top 100Â people in the world. And, all I can think of is ‘”"Huh!?” For a game?
No, way!
I admit, I spent twenty years in Japan and I never heard of the game while I was there. Okay, so I admit to not knowing everything. I don’t know a whole lot of things. And now I don’t know why I didn’t know this game would become the hottest thing since crossword puzzles.
It makes me want to go back to Japan and see what else I missed. Seriously.
But, more seriously, what is a game FINDER doing on the list of Time’s Top 100? Is Time kidding?
Gould didn’t even invent the game – nor did the Japanese. Sudoku is made up of two Japanese words – su =numbers and doku = to solve.
Howard Garns of Indianapolis gets credit for inventing the game and then the Japanese publisher www.Nikoli.com gets credit for introducing the game to Japan and popularizing its name.
Gould’s claim to fame is for writing a computer program for generating puzzles of various difficulties. I guess I should have studied computer programming while I hunted for games in Japan, eh?
Still, Gould does NOT belong on the list. No way.
What do you think?
Originally posted 2008-10-05 22:34:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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