DOTSOKU!

I hate Sudoku. Everywhere I look I see smarmy intellectual types with foreheads crinkled in thought, chewing on pens as they do Sudoku on the tube, on the bus or at the supermarket. Notice the use of do as to the other verb play which would imply some sort of enjoyment. It’s reached pandemic proportions as it infects thousands of people all over Britain every day.

Why can’t we see it’s a nefarious practical joke by the Japanese? Hey let’s give primary school arithmetic a catchy Japanese name and sell it to the West. Then when they are all too busy doing their Sudoku we will make affordable good quality electronics (evil man laughs maniacally).

Anyway what ever happened to good old connect the dots. I miss those simpler days where all you would have is your pencil and just in case you made a mistake an eraser but the beauty of the game was that even though you sort of knew what the picture was you were never really that sure until you had connected the last dot. Oh look it’s a can of beans!

Connect the dots has been around for donkey’s years for good reason. The ancient Greeks used connect the dot theory to come up with the constellations. (In Ancient Greek) Oh look Archimedes, it’s a Capricorn!

It’s time to get them back for Sudoku. It’s time to revamp connect the dots with a catchy Japanese name and really challenging dot pictures of Mount Fuji. It’s time for Dotsoku!