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First off, a little background: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/su_doku Su Doku] (Japanese for "Single number") is a kind of puzzle, in which the player must place numbers (usually 1-9) in a (9 by 9) matrix playfield in such a way that no number appears twice on a horizontal and vertical row, and in a region of nine numbers in said matrix. Depending on the number of pre-filled numbers, the difficulty increases as the possibilities widen. The image text refers to the “Red Belt”-collection, which is a series of extreme difficult puzzles.
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First off, a little background: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/su_doku Su Doku] (Japanese for "Single number") is a kind of puzzle, in which the player must place numbers (usually 1-9) in a (9 by 9) matrix playfield in such a way that no number appears twice on a horizontal and vertical row, and in a region of nine numbers in said matrix. Depending on the number of pre-filled numbers, the difficulty increases as the possibilities widen. The image text refers to the “Red Belt”-collection, which is a series of extremely difficult puzzles.
  
Now to the joke: when you play binary Su Doku, you only end up with two numbers (0 and 1), thus creating a maximum playfield of 2x2. Even the “Red Belt” series therefore will be easy to solve, as you can see in the comic.  
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Now to the joke: when you play binary Su Doku, you only end up with two numbers (0 and 1), thus creating a maximum playfield of 2 by 2. Even the “Red Belt” series therefore will be easy to solve, as you can see in the comic.  
  
 
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su doku.jpg

Image Text

This one is from the Red Belt collection, of 'medium' difficulty

Description

First off, a little background: Su Doku (Japanese for "Single number") is a kind of puzzle, in which the player must place numbers (usually 1-9) in a (9 by 9) matrix playfield in such a way that no number appears twice on a horizontal and vertical row, and in a region of nine numbers in said matrix. Depending on the number of pre-filled numbers, the difficulty increases as the possibilities widen. The image text refers to the “Red Belt”-collection, which is a series of extremely difficult puzzles.

Now to the joke: when you play binary Su Doku, you only end up with two numbers (0 and 1), thus creating a maximum playfield of 2 by 2. Even the “Red Belt” series therefore will be easy to solve, as you can see in the comic.