Sudoku Puzzle Leaves Students "F***ing" Baffled with Unsolvable Grid

The Editor, Will Irvine and his team at the Salient have stuffed up again, this time displaying an inability to master elementary mathematics by printing an unsolvable Sudoku puzzle in their issue.

This stuff-up represents everything I've been saying about our universities' media decline. Presumably, the Editor and his team of future unemployment benefit recipients were too busy learning about Māori wonderfulness, climate activism, the 78 different gender pronouns, and the latest faddish protest to check whether their puzzle had a solution.

If these are our nation's future journalists, incapable of validating a simple 9x9 grid, God help us all. They can't write coherent sentences, can't spell, and now can't even copy and paste a pre-made puzzle without buggering it up.

But what truly mystifies me is why, in 2025, student unions are still wasting OUR money to produce print publications when we’re all glued to our bloody phones.