The Sudoku mystery has hit wests mass media and newspaper with such a substantial impact, that it has to be the puzzle game promotion of the century. But what is it that drawing digits into tiny squares so very addictive?

One part of the mix has definitely to be pure simplicity of the riddle. The guidelines of Sudoku are so easy to take in that anyone can start puzzle solving almost without delay.Yet complete mastery of the game entail significant amounts of practise and patience. A Sudoku brainteaser can also be made so hard that even a virtuoso could have a hard time completing it.

Contrary to what many will think when they first see a Sudoku enigma, this brain-teasing exercise doesn't require particularly high understanding of math. It is more a matter of common sense and the numbers could, in fact, be replaced with any other symbol.

The connection with dart throwing

Since Sudoku is a game of reasoning and dart throwing is a game of precision and hand-eye coordination, you'd maybe think they have absolutely nothing in common. However, I have a story that could argue differently.

I recall when I was a kid and we spent the holidays at our cottage in the archipelago. One day my sister and I found an old darts game - not like the posh ones they use in indoors dart competitions, but more of a robust "outdoors" (or whatever the right term is) type of dartboard with numeral characters from one on the outside to ten in the bulls eye, and quite compact and rugged darts.

Neither of us where very good at aiming darts, so it was a good point we hung the dart board on the outside wall of an old shed. After a while of practising, I happened to get quite a good score - 42 with five darts.

Luck had much to do with it of course, but now something very interesting happened. My sibling would not quit before she had gotten at least the same score as me!

I think she hacked away at that dart target for a pair of hours without interruption, and had she been a person in a comic she would probably for sure have been portrayed with a dark cloud over her head, so to say. It was beginning to get dark before she finally had beaten my record and could allow herself to quit.

It is truly astonishing to witness such determination.

Although having not so much to do with Sudoku puzzles per se, I think the same kind of driving energy is also one factor "blamable" for the addictiveness of the Sudoku enigma.

Most might love a trial, on condition that that there is in reality a to some extent reasonable possibility to crop up "victorious" in the end. When tackling a fittingly tricky Sudoku brainteaser a participant can sometimes enter almost a trance like state where he or she simply can't put down the pen before they have flattened the Sudoku demanding task. Much in the same way as it developed in that dart game many donkey's years ago.

One might perhaps argue that my sister has always been a very ambitious type with anything she has ever done, but I still think the point made is valid.

This is all good, as Sudoku is a very inexpensive hobby that definitely presents a good work out for the brain.However, would something catch fire in the vincinity or if somebody is drowning - by all means put that Sudoku mystery aside for just a few seconds.

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