The game's up: jurors playing Sudoku abort trial

AFTER 105 witnesses and three months of evidence, a drug trial costing $1 million was aborted yesterday when it emerged that jurors had been playing Sudoku since the trial's second week.

In the District Court in Sydney, Judge Peter Zahra discharged the jury after hearing evidence from two accused men, one of their solicitors and the jury forewoman, who admitted that she and four other jurors had been diverting themselves in the jury box by playing the popular numbers game.

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This demonstration of the global appeal of Sudoku just provides more evidence that adding Sudoku to The Perfect Plea could be a marketing bonanza.

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[This message was edited by David Newell on 06-10-08 at .]

"Plea now or we'll give this to the jury!"?

That was probably a good result for the prosecution in that case.

Now if they had been playing Hangman.........