They may be similar-sounding Japanese words, but there’s a big
difference between sudoku and seppuku. The former means “single number
in an allotted place”, and has become the name for the world’s
fastest-growing number-place-allotting game sensation. The other
roughly translates as “belly slicing,” and is the name for a gory
ritual wherein a disgraced samurai guts himself and is then decapitated
to atone for a serious failing – like, say, dropping a crucial pop fly
during the championship game of the All-Samurai Softball Invitational.
Another
difference: Woot has no plans to sell seppuku equipment (not in the
next few weeks, anyway), but today we carve out our slice of the
multi-kazillion dollar sudoku industry. This
Sudoku Handheld Electronic Game with Touch Screen brings the maddening numerical
amusement into the electronic age thanks to cutting-edge 1990’s
technology. Thousands of puzzles at three difficulty levels are waiting
for you inside the cold cyberguts of this handheld dungeonmaster, each
one more fun than the next. Forget bulky, unsightly pen and paper –
these games play out entirely on the LCD
screen. And despite the prevalence of numbers, the game doesn’t involve
any math, so Pentagon accountants can enjoy sudoku just like normal
people do.
“Now wait just a minute,” you exclaim. “Every
newspaper in America carries sudoku puzzles now, and there are more
sudoku books than there are Left Behind and Chicken Soup
books combined. What does this handheld game offer that those other
sudoku sources don’t?” The answer: a way to dispose of all those extra
batteries you’ve got laying around, two AAA’s at a time (none included). Now click “I Want One” – and get sudokucizing!
