New ways to play Sudoku - Is playing on your coffee maker far behind?

Gadget: New ways to play Sudoku

The sudoku movement continues to grow, and there is a mini-industry springing up to sell the puzzle game in a variety of new forms.

Although sudoku has long been worked on paper, as a game of mathematical logic, it is perfectly suited for digital devices, which can easily be programmed with simple formulas that keep generating puzzles. Also, it is easy to play on a cellphone touch pad and can played anywhere in the world without translation.

Companies say they are seeing strong interest in their mobile sudoku games.

Howard Tomlinson, chief executive of mobile-game maker Astraware Ltd. estimates that there are dozens of different versions of mobile sudoku — roughly 20 or so for Palm and Windows Mobile devices alone. Astraware's sudoku game, with billions of puzzles, is currently the eighth most popular of some 20,000 software downloads that are available for Palm devices.

While Astraware's software is geared toward pricier multipurpose gadgets, Sudokumo.com recently launched a mobile sudoku game that can be downloaded to most cell phones. The company, based in Guildford, U.K., says it has sold 7,500 games worldwide. Sudokumo's mobile sudoku has tutoring tools that help players identify the correct answer or tell them when they've entered the wrong one.

Another article on the Sudoku craze - and now allows another way to play on your cell phone. As I mentioned before, seems there is no limit to how many items will play it...before you know it, you'll be playing sudoku on your coffee maker!!