Same reason people play solitaire I suppose. It would be quicker to roll a dice and say 'If it's even, I win'. Saves hours, letting you get back to the work you're actually meant to be doing.
Edit: Of course, Sudoku has it's uses. I fondly remember the day our manager picked up my paper in the breakroom (whilst having his lunch in the staffroom - way to ruin our break, fuckwad) and declared he could do the puzzle within twenty minutes (or something like that). Now this was the guardian one, not the easiest level but certainly not the hardest.
Some fifty minutes later, he's still struggling; as are we but for different reasons (trying not to break out in laughter). He eventually gives up, apparently hoping we won't notice his distinctly uncompleted puzzle.
So thankyou sudoku, for publically illustrating his limitations, giving us another chuckle at the bosses expense; and reminding him why there's a custom that bosses stay out the rank-and-file breakroom.
Perhaps if it had been based on gambling odds he'd have done better; he could have simply imagined himself misappropriating money from the 'staff fund' or 'lost and found'(again) to finance his chronic gambling problem. But that's a tale for another time.
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Edit: Of course, Sudoku has it's uses. I fondly remember the day our manager picked up my paper in the breakroom (whilst having his lunch in the staffroom - way to ruin our break, fuckwad) and declared he could do the puzzle within twenty minutes (or something like that). Now this was the guardian one, not the easiest level but certainly not the hardest.
Some fifty minutes later, he's still struggling; as are we but for different reasons (trying not to break out in laughter). He eventually gives up, apparently hoping we won't notice his distinctly uncompleted puzzle.
So thankyou sudoku, for publically illustrating his limitations, giving us another chuckle at the bosses expense; and reminding him why there's a custom that bosses stay out the rank-and-file breakroom.
Perhaps if it had been based on gambling odds he'd have done better; he could have simply imagined himself misappropriating money from the 'staff fund' or 'lost and found'(again) to finance his chronic gambling problem. But that's a tale for another time.