The event in Dallas, “An Afternoon of Sudoku with Maki Kaji,” attracted more than 50 people on May 8. Maki helped the audience stretch their mind by sharing the joy of creating a puzzle. After finishing mini Sudoku contests, teenagers asked Maki about how the online platform would changed the growth of logic puzzles. Maki answered that certain types of Nikoli’s original puzzles including Akari work great on the online or cellphone platforms. He, however, emphasized that the paper version of puzzles will stay with us for a long time. He quoted a lady who was taking care of a hospitalized mother: “I take care of my mother all day long in a hospital. After she goes to sleep, I open Nikoli’s puzzle book and play Sudoku. That is the only time I can forget that I am in the hospital.”