
It’s played on a 9 x 9 grid subdivided into smaller 3 x 3 grids. If you haven’t played sudoku before, the basics are pretty simple. However, after several days of playing the game, I’ve found that stripped of its tedious aspects, sudoku is engaging to the point of being addicting and a whole lot of fun.

As a result, as much as I’ve enjoyed Gage’s other games, I approached Good Sudoku with a healthy dose of skepticism. I’ve played sudoku before and knew the rules, but it’s not a game that has ever grabbed me and stuck. Other times, it means removing the tedious and boring parts of games to breathe new life into them, which is precisely what he and Jack Schlesinger have accomplished with Good Sudoku. Sometimes that means turning the rules upside down and inside out like Flipflop Solitaire or Really Bad Chess.

Zach Gage has a knack for giving classic games an interesting twist.
