Wiltshires prints puzzle mag

Wiltshires in Bristol is to produce <i>Total Su Doku,</i> the latest magazine to cash in on the Japanese number puzzle craze.

The plant, which is part of Trader Media Group, itself a subsidiary of Guardian Media Group, will produce an initial 38,000 print run of the 68pp magazine.

The magazine will be launched next Thursday (25 August) by Bath-based Future Publishing.

Publisher Justine Wall said that the puzzle was "the biggest craze since Rubik's cube way back in the 1980s" and that the monthly launch would "do its bit to satisfy the needs of puzzle junkies".

Total Su Doku launches into an already-saturated market, aiming to rival H Bauer's Su Doku Selection, which launched with a print run of 100,000, and a raft of books linked to newspapers that publish the puzzle.