Aspies For Freedom

Anyone into doing/making crossword puzzles?

Check out this guy's site on crossword puzzles:

http://barelybad.com/crossword.htm

I suggest reading the part about the rules that people who write New York Times' crosswords have to follow.  Pretty damn difficult.

I find sudoku really relaxing...great for airports and airlines.

It's a good way to use my brain if I'm feeling otherwise confused and uncreative.  Better than staring at the wall at least.

Sudoku and crosswords ARE a very fun way to kill time...and really relaxing...

Crosswords are good and challenging. Sudoku is all right, but it gets a bit samey and boring after a while. Kind of like naughts and crosses / tic tac toe. (It's all right to pass time if I'm REALLY bored.)

I love doing the National Enquirer crosswords (I don't read the magazine though). The ones that require knowledge of music and movies appeal to me the most.

I like to do the Killer Sudoku puzzles.  I find they're more challenging than the original suduko and no two look the same.

[Killer Sudoku is the one where you don't start with any numbers on the grid.  Instead there are dotted boxes all over the grid with a number in each stating what the sum of the numbers in that box is.]

I had this thing at a SF convention about doing sudoku except instead of 1 to 9 it used the Fibonacci Sequence. The NTs thought I was odd while those with aspie traits understood immediately.

Kakuro?

Killer Sudoku is a mix between the original Sudoku and Kakuro.  You can find Killer Sodoku puzzles in The Times newspaper.

I love Sudoku, although it's been a while since I've last engaged in it. It makes me feel like my brain is working overtime.

I love sudoku too. I usually can only stand doing the hardest puzzles though, otherwise I get bored. But I also get frustrated with myself for not slowing down enough to figure out more patterns (instead I am just driven by an 'urge to solve'). I guess it's sort of a form of stimming.