I hereby declare sudoku an epidemic; en route to some game demos Tuesday, we noticed the taxi driver was playing the game while weaving through midtown traffic. Scary, sure. But it may get worse. The New York Times reports today* on sudoku csar, Maki Kaji - the man responsible for triggering the phenom. His magazine, Nikoli lets readers submit and refine game concepts and he's got some 250 more brain blasters ready to publish. Like auto manufacturing, consumer electronics and videogames, suduko originated outside Japan. They've just managed to improve upon the concept brilliantly, subjecting the whole planet to the sublime pleasures of frustration with numbers.
*as in last week