LAST week I invited your views on Gillian Ford’s plea to make some of the Killer Su Dokus in the Books section on Saturdays slightly less Deadly, and you enthusiastically took up the invitation. “Please don’t make the Saturday Killer easier. I would have thought that by now most solvers find even the moderate level too easy.” Colin Walls’s objection is not that they are hard, but that they are ugly. “When they first came out we got handcrafted, elegant puzzles with graded progression of the solving process. Now we get puzzles where, mostly, after a few easy numbers you struggle to get the first very hard number, and then the rest is just routine.” Arthur Ray is “hooked on the

Source: The Times March 18, 2025 23:09 UTC