Sodoku isn't math?

Sodoku has become incredibly popular in La Belle Province of Quebec and has managed to infiltrate my household. I've avoided it, thinking it requires number skill, which I definitely do not have. However, according to American Scientist Online, it doesn't require math so much as it require logic and pattern recognition.

Okay I can buy that. But the medium of its message is still numbers. And I avoid numbers.

[found via Arts & Letters Daily]