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1945
Sudoku
Wayne Gould is probably another of our featured PG-40-ers who provokes the question from a lot of people “Who?” However if you say “Sudoku” the reaction will be completely different and Wayne Gould is the man who single handedly first popularized Sudoku in just about every country outside Japan; the country where it first became popular. Wayne’s amazing story is one of turning the tables on Japan, a country whose post-Second World War economic success was built on taking other’s inventions and making them better, quicker and cheaper, his tale has a lot of value for any “old-timer” looking for inspiration.
Wayne Gould was born in a small town in the distant country of New Zealand in 1945. After qualifying as a lawyer he moved to Hong Kong to practice, staying there until 1997 and retiring as a higher court Judge when Hong Kong was returned to China by Britain. Like many civil servants at the time of the handover of Hong Kong he took “early” retirement at the ripe old age of 52, after a good life in one of the last outposts of the British Empire.
In the same year, Gould is reported to have visited Japan where he discovered some strange number puzzles while browsing in a book store. He was drawn to the puzzles because, surrounded by a sea of books written in Japanese, they stood out as independent of any language. The very thing that drew Wayne to Sudoku was probably to prove the single most important contribution to its astounding popularity around the world.
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