Monthly Archives: April 2008

Unique Blocks

UNIQUE BLOCKS are essential tools for solving Kakuro and Killer Sudoku/Addoku puzzles. For example a total of 4 in 2 squares is a UNIQUE BLOCK. It can’t be 2 + 2 because each line of numbers can contain only one of each numeral. So the two squares can have only 1 or 3, though [more…]

Hello – April 2008

The word exotic comes from the Greek exotikos, literally ‘from the outside’. So if we had visited Ancient Greece, they may have described us as exotic, because they used it to mean ‘foreign’.

Exotic plants and birds come from another land, but exotic also means ‘attractively strange’, or maybe that should be ‘strangely attractive’. (I’m [more…]