Media Announcements
Leader Post Newspaper
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Saturday, 14 January 2006
Today the Leader-Post launches the daily JANRIC Classic Sudoku, marketed by Los Angeles-based Creators Syndicate. It will appear each day on the Comics & Puzzles page. JCSis created by Janice Witham of Melbourne, and it appears daily in newspapers all over the world.
Witham is originally from Midale, southwest of Regina . Sudoku puzzles use numbers instead of words, but require no mathematical skills. To successfully complete the puzzle, you need to employ a great deal of patience and logic.
The Winchester Star
Winchester, VA,USA
5 February 2006
The worldwide popularity of Sudoku may be traced to the universal nature of numbers. Janice Witham, the Canadian-born Australian who builds JANRIC Classic Sudoku for Creators Syndicate, said in an emailed interview that even though numbers are involved, it’s not a math puzzle.
“I believe Sudoku appeals to people of many ages because the rules are so simple and the only solving strategies required are logical reasoning and the process of elimination.”
Witham wrote travel stories and later started compiling word finds. She said she’s lost count of the hours it takes to compile the puzzles, but “I know I have used up 354 pencils and 167 erasers so far.”
The Herald Star
Stuebenville, Ohio, USA
16 December 2005
Sudoku puzzles, which are becoming extremely popular throughout the country, now are part of the Herald-Star. JANRIC Classic Sudoku puzzles will be published in each edition in the classified section. Sudoku puzzles became popular in in 1986 and began picking up interest here and in many other countries this year.
Though numbers traditionally have been used for Sudoku puzzles, any set of symbols or even colours can be used instead. Solving the puzzle does not involve any mathematical relationship among the numbers.
The Flint Journal
Detroit, MI, USA
18 December 2005
The week before Christmas, The Journal is offering a present to its readers, especially those who love puzzles. And especially those who love working the wildly popular Sudoku puzzle that newspapers across the nation and world are rushing to add because of reader demand.
Our new Sudoku puzzles is called the JANRIC Classic Sudoku and it is different from similar puzzles now available in the Detroit newspapers or Today. It has graduated degrees of difficulty and gets harder as the week goes along with bronze, silver and gold challenge levels.
