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Crosswords have met their match in Sudoku

From Bangkok to Jerusalem, London to Sydney people from all over the World are clamouring to get at Sudoku puzzles.The amount of interest in this intriguing puzzle is just staggering.

So why is Sudoku so popular? It`s a great time-passer, and, unlike crosswords, you don`t need any language skills, or arithmetic skills, just the ability to think logically and a degree of patience.

On the train or on the bus, on a plane or at a stoplight, you can take a try at the puzzles whose addicting style of play and ease of instruction is taking the world by storm. Newspapers in the U.S., U.K., much of Europe, Israel and Asia are now carrying the Sudoku puzzles, and word is that many more are planning to do so due to word-of-mouth demand.

It seems that this is one craze that isn`t going to die out any time soon.