The Wisdom Of The East™ brings you the challenge to end all challenges: can you solve SODYUTU?
The aim is to enter numbers in the blank boxes in such a way that each row and column adds up to a completely different number each time!
The rules are few, but very important:
- You may use any integer (including 7), but you may not use the same one twice in any row or column unless really desperate
- You may use "*" as a wild-card, but only on the long diagonals
- Vulgar fractions are not permitted, even if made genteel first
- Trombey's Gambit can be used, but not south of the river
- Diamonds are trumps
You may use a pencil and paper, a calculator, a Spectrum ZX +2A or a 14-pound lump hammer according to taste. Thermonuclear weaponry is not permitted, even if you're a spoilt New England frat-boy dry-drunk who thinks he's doing God's Will™.
Good luck!
"Sodyutu is highly addictive: I can't go a day without it! Oh, wait, no; that's heroin I'm thinking of."
(Pete Dohaline)
"In the name of the security of the British Public™, Sodyutu will be become compulsory for all citizens 16 and older, on pain of fine or imprisonment for refusal to register"
(The Rt. Hon. Charles Clinke MP, Home Secretary (Acting))
"Noughts-and-crosses for self-styled intellectuals"
(Costas & Armand Aleg, cultural commentators)
"Oh NO!! I can't BELIEVE it!!!!"
(Jonathan Piercing, uncultured commentator)
