Arlington Man Hopes to Stump Puzzle World with 'Octo'
Octo has become a staple of library's annual puzzle festival.
If KenKen hadn’t become a mainstay in the puzzle section of newspapers and magazines in recent years, Arlingtonian Doug Gardner’s Octo may have very well been the Next Big Thing. It still may be. And Gardner, a computer security specialist for the U.S. Defense Department, is enjoying the challenge of trying to launch America’s next puzzle sensation. “KenKen came out at about the same time that I first started approaching people with Octo,” Gardner said. “One of the companies even told me that they weren’t looking for another puzzle because they were rolling out the whole KenKen puzzle.” Gardner invented Octo in July 2007 when he was seeking to combine the mathematical logic of kakuro with the positional logic of sudoku. An Octo puzzle …
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