Why sudoku is popular with newspapers

It's easily as addictive as a crossword puzzle, but in a pinch you can generate your own unique puzzles with a computer, hence lower labor costs in keeping your readers freshly supplied.

The puzzles don't go out of date.

You can generate puzzles with Sudoku Generator and Solver for Mac OS X, which is a packaged tcl/tk application.

Fierce UK competition for newspapers printing Sudokus yields syndicated work of high quality, e.g. The Daily SuDoku.

It appeals to the algorithm seeking nature of your inner geek, who now has another system to try to beat, now that Rubik's Cubes are out of style.

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Writing the program that solves Sudoku is more fun than doing them, and once you have done it, you need never bother with it again!

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