Need official proof that the crazes for both SNAKES ON A PLANE and Sudoku puzzles have gotten completely out of hand? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you SNAKES ON A SUDOKU.
It’s tagged as the “official puzzle book” for the Samuel L. Jackson film. What differentiates this Sudoku book from the kajillions already flooding shelves? Simple: Taking the title far too literally, each puzzle has an illustration of a snake sitting right atop it, and the boxes curl around (like a snake!) rather than sit in 3×3 grids.
And that’s it, which smacks of utter laziness to me. If you’re going to do a tie-in puzzle book, at least put forth some effort. The LEMONY SNICKET one captured all the dark, droll humor of the film and series, so why can’t this one have a word search for various spellings of “muthafucka”? Or maybe a maze in which you have to guide Kenan Thompson to snatch up all the bags of airline peanuts?
One can’t really review something like this (“Remember that one puzzle that starts out ’4 blank blank?’ Ooh, dat shit tricky!“) – only throw it out there and see if anyone jumps to catch. Part of me thinks it’d be fun to put this on a shelf and pull it down in a few decades just to prove it existed, but that would only be encouraging them. –Rod Lott
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- Dare ye taketh the TEMPLAR challenge?
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(”Remember that one puzzle that starts out ‘4 blank blank?’ Ooh, dat shit tricky!“)
You do realize that I’m reading this at work and it’s really awkward for both me and my cubicle-mates when I just start chuckling at my computer screen…