Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos

Author:Alex Bellos [Bellos, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-04-04T14:00:00+00:00

Maki Kaji’s business card has the words Godfather of Sudoku. Wayne Gould describes himself as the Stepfather of Sudoku. I finally met up with Gould over coffee in a West London deli. He was wearing a New Zealand rugby top and had a typically antipodean, easygoing manner. Gould has a gap between his front teeth, which together with his thick glasses, short silvery hair and youthful enthusiasm reminded me of a young university lecturer rather than a former judge. Sudoku has transformed Gould’s life. He has been busier in retirement than he ever was before. He supplies puzzles for free to more than 700 newspapers in 81 countries, earning money from selling his program and books, which he says gives him only about 2 percent of the global Sudoku market. Still, Sudoku has earned him a seven-figure fortune. And he is a celebrity. When I asked him how his wife felt about his unexpected fame, he paused. ‘We separated last year,’ he stuttered. ‘After 32 years of marriage. Maybe it was having all that money. Maybe it gave her a freedom she never knew she had.’ Through the silence the message I heard was a heartbreaking one: he might have launched a global craze, but the adventure had come at too high a personal cost.

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