This site exists because, wanting to try the Python programming language, I chose the game Sudoku as a learning project, and then thought others might want to use the game and needed a way of making the program available. Then I thought it would be interesting to learn how to create web sites. Later I wrote some additional games. With the release of the third version of the web site, I decided to make available the software I'd written to help create these web pages. This development path led to the stupid site name, with which I am now stuck.

First I worked on a Sudoku program and wanted a name for it. The working name, perhaps rather unimaginatively, was YASudoku or Yet Another Sudoku, but when I got to the stage of thinking others might want to use the program and that it therefore needed a name, I found that YASudoku was already in use. While checking on other possible names I discovered that quite an industry had grown around Sudoku and that any recognisable variant on sudoku was probably already in use. Dreaming up names can be amusing if you don't have to worry about others having the same droll ideas, but if you do, it soon palls. So I ran out of patience.

The logic runs as follows. The name SourGumdrop is not recognisably related to Sudoku and hence had a chance of being unique. It also happens that "AKA SourGumdrop" is an anagram of "A Sudoku Program" and I was amused by the "AKA" component; especially when I didn't include it in the name... Pathetic really.

So if you think "SourGumdrop" is not only stupid but too long, be aware that the full title is:

"A Sudoku Program, Also Known As SourGumdrop".

Later, when I wrote the Kakuro program, I lazily added a K to the name to get SourGumdropK. For the Sokoban program, Sourkoban, I at least managed something vaguely related to the game's name; and I finally broke free with the Minesweeper program Minestein. Yay! However, for now, I am still stuck with the site name of sourgumdrop.org.uk.