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卡库罗(1966)——从 Cross Sums 到加算 Cross,六十年不曾移动的加法格子
卡库罗,英语圈称为 Cross Sums,1966年诞生于美国戴尔公司的一款拼图杂志企划。1980年代,Nikoli 将其引入日本,命名为“加算 Cross”,2005年又经由《卫报》以近乎逆向输出的方式传遍世界。本文将追溯这个既非填字游戏也非数独、专攻加法的格子,为何在六十年间不断更换媒介却始终未曾改变规则,行文将同时参照当年的纸面报道与如今的 Steam 商店页面。
Nikoli (1980) — The Reader-Grown Puzzle Magazine, and the Road Sudoku Took Around the World
Puzzle Communication Nikoli, launched in 1980, was Japan's first magazine devoted to puzzles. Its name came from a racehorse; the prototype of Sudoku came from America. This essay traces forty years in which Nikoli's mode of production—reader submissions and handmade problems—gave birth to Slitherlink (1989) and Nurikabe (1991), and sent Sudoku around the world via Hong Kong judge Wayne Gould's generator program, rereading the source of a question at the heart of modern puzzle design: who should make a good problem?

