Wayne Gould

Wayne Gould (高 乐 德 法官) ( born July 3, 1945 in Hawera, New Zealand ) is a former judge who is responsible for the spread of Sudokus in Europe and America.

Wayne Gould was born on July 3, 1945 as the son of a bank manager. He was 13 years a lawyer in Matamata (New Zealand ) before he moved to Hong Kong in 1982. 1993 Gould was chairman district judge there. But he went immediately after the takeover of Hong Kong by China on 1 July 1997 into retirement.

During a stay in Japan in the same year Gould discovered in a bookstore a Sudoku. Although he did not speak Japanese, he was fascinated and decided the Sudoku in Europe and America to spread. He spent a computer program, called Sudoku Pappocom to develop, which produces a button new Sudokus The next six years. In September 2004, Gould published his first Sudoku in the Conway Daily Sun. The breakthrough came after the publication of his puzzles in The Times on 15 November 2004. Gould was by selling Sudoku books and its software millionaire many times over.

In 2006 he was named in the list World's Most Influential People.

Gould is married and has two children. He is the brother of former British politician Brian Gould.

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• Judge
• Attorney (New Zealand)
• New Zealanders
• Born in 1945
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