As many of you know, I've been spending a lot of my puzzle-writing time recently working on a puzzle book with Sterling called "Battleship Sudoku." Today, as I was googling that exact title, I found a new hit after my blog entries from Dark Chrome Software for "Battleship Sudoku" with this description:

"Battleship Sudoku is a fun, stimulating puzzle game that combines the logical deduction required of traditional sukdoku [sic] with the rewarding challenge of battleships. Battleship Sudoku from Dark Chrome Software brings you an almost unlimited range of Battleship Sudoku puzzles to solve, all generated for you in real time on your computer. You can save puzzles for later, print individual puzzles or even produce your own printed puzzle books, complete with solutions."

Almost the perfect piece of software for me to put out there if people liked my puzzle type, but someone beat me to it. Heck, they might already be producing their own printed puzzle books, complete with solutions. I nervously clicked through to the page to check out the software ...
only to learn that what the authors meant by "combining the logical deduction required of traditional sukdoku [sic]" with battleships is to simply append the name sudoku. While they have a bunch of different colored backgrounds, all the puzzles are battleship puzzles with no numbers in the grid to be seen.

So, first Paint-By-Sudoku (which I did correctly afterwards as an actual sudoku), now Battleship Sudoku (which I did correctly beforehand as an actual sudoku), ... what next? Connect the Sudoku with a bunch of numbered dots? Find The Sudoku puzzles with two pictures and some differences? Just as some parents named their kids ESPN, I'm imagining the first wave of Sudoku-named children anytime now as this fad runs its course.