The first Times Su Doku book sparked a worldwide publishing phenomenon – sales have topped 4 million copies worldwide since March 2005.
A fifth collection of 100 previously unpublished puzzles from the man who started it all, Wayne Gould. Four levels of difficulty – easy, mild, difficult and fiendish – to challenge, stimulate and divert all Su Doku addicts. The Times Su Doku remains the original, the best and the market leader.
Gould was a lawyer for 13 years in Matamata, New Zealand, before coming to Hong Kong in 1982. A former Chief District Judge, he retired from the judiciary in 1997 and, that same year, during a visit to Japan, he was in a bookstore where, not knowing how to read or speak Japanese, he was drawn to the puzzle which he first thought was a crossword. He was intrigued and later on he decided to take it with him to the United States and Britain. After his initial retirement, in efforts to pass time and sharpen his computer skills, Gould developed the computer program that generates Sudoku puzzles. Wayne Gould says retirement can now wait as Sudoku keeps him busier than ever.
Wayne was named by Time magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 people who shaped the world in 2005. He now spends time travelling between his different bases in Lantau and New Hampshire in the United States, where his wife Gaye is a professor of linguistics, and other parts of the world to which his new hobby has taken him. He has two children, daughter Sally, 31, and son, Scott, 29.
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