In the year 1979, a new evil received its impetus. The world was ready. An Austrian architect designed a chart which was to be filled with numbers from one to nine. The Japanese became enchanted with the game in the mid eighties. In the land of the rising sun the disease prospered and within its nutritious soil, it built up the strength to conquer the world. In November 2004, the time was ripe for the infestation of Europe. A British newspaper, The Times, begun to publish sudoku charts on a daily basis, and soon other newspapers followed its lead. In Finland the first newspaper to cave in was Helsingin Sanomat, in September 2005.

Sudoku.

The vertical and horizontal charts, as well as each of the smaller charts of the cursed logic game, are to be filled with the same number only once. Sounds familiar? Or can you not grasp it? Never mind, just keep reading, for soon you will learn how to rid of them. Within the same year, in Finland there have already been held two championship competitions of sudoku. The most popular gaming related web pages are overflowing with contamination. People are tittering about intoxicated by numbers, unable to see around them. Abroad the situation is much worse. In Great Britain it has already taken over television, and Finland is gullibly following in its slipstream. Where do we cross the line? Will this mania ever stop? The answer is yes. The matter is in the hands of Youth Against Sudoku (YAS). We are on a mission. Come and carry your weight, and follow our guidance. Join our elegant group and stop sudoku! Youth Against Sudoku is a movement. You will recognize an awakened citizen and an agent of the idea from a red garment. Join us, and carry the colour with pride! Work hard for a good cause.

Or perhaps you find sudoku necessary? Are the puzzles really worth publishing, and moreover, why should you try to solve them? Few notice what damage they cause. They turn our world black and white, unimaginatively logical, and statically squared. Simplicity is unexciting, and excess logic kills variety. Is there nothing left but nine times nine? We are concerned, concerned about 81 traitorous squares, concerned about mankind. People waste their time and brain capacity by pondering over numbers, useless numbers, addictive numbers.

Some of the elderly no longer step outside, some of the young no longer exercise, and for some workers a day in the office is just numbers on a piece of paper. Charts after charts, statistics after statistics. One record-breaking scribble after the other. Sudokism, sudokation and sudism everywhere. Let's put an end to the wasting of time, to the wasting of paper and the unnecessary straining of our brain! Gather up all the sudoku filth that you can get your hands on, and send it to us. We will then send it back to where it came from. Return the hazardous tripe into the official YAS- movement collecting boxes that can be found scattered around the city, and we will send it all back to Japan at once! Out of sight, out of mind. We shall not rest until the sudoku- container has left our soil.

Let us see red together and end the sudokation of the world. Protesting is easy. You need not fill up any forms, think logically, nor draw up any numbers on voting slips. You can take a stand in a cool way. All you have to do is to wear the colour of the red front, look fetching, and make an impression. Don't be a yes-man or a yes-woman. Voice your anger instead. Now that is elegant, YAS-elegant! First there was ni kagiru by Suji Wa Dokushi, which was later on abbreviated as sudoku. Let us make sure together that it will soon no longer exist. Wiped off, erased, deleted, dealt with, problem solved! A smart remonstration voiced not in order to instigate animosity towards Howard Garnes, the inventor of sudoku, but for the sake of a healthy and functional society.

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Update: The battle has ended. The total amount of 2237 sudoku-puzzles was delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Youth Against Sudoku wants to thank you for your support. We promise to get back in business, if we hear something from Japan.