I've become a big-time
Sudoku addict lately. I knew I was hooked when I started doing 6 or 7 of them per day, and I
really knew I was hooked when I started seeing little numbers in the tiles on my bathroom floor.
Anyone else here into Sudoku?
I occassionally enjoy them, but they're not really my preferred type of logic puzzle.
I prefer the ones that give some facts and by logical deduction ask you to say some details about some people.
Yup, but not obsessively. Sudoku got displaced by the three online forums I post to.
I used to do them but haven't done any for a while as I found them too easy!
I used to do them but haven't done any for a while as I found them too easy!
Too easy? Those things can get pretty damn maddening. Are you sure you've really been challenging yourself?
...Too easy? Those things can get pretty damn maddening. Are you sure you've really been
challenging yourself?
Just over 15 minutes!
...Too easy? Those things can get pretty damn maddening. Are you sure you've really been
challenging yourself?
Just over 15 minutes!
Wow! I could never do it that fast (not yet anyway). But just know that they can and do get a lot harder than the ones on that site. There are even other, harder versions of the puzzle- for instance, the Sudoku in my sunday paper has a 16x16 grid, and you fill it with 0-9 and A-F: it's considerably harder and I actually have never completed one of those. :? And some puzzle books published in Japan even include 25x25 Sudokus. :shock:
I highly doubt there is a single human being out there for whom the very hardest Sudokus are "too easy."
P.S.: I tend to get jealous of people who are better than me at certain things. Especially things I really like, such as the piano and Sudoku :wink: So if I seem defensive, I apologize.
I can do them, but I find them a bit simplistic. I really prefer the crosswords where you have a symmetrical white grid (no numbers) and the questions, then have to not only fill in the answers, but the black spaces as well. You usually have a "starter" answer in one part of the crossword and from that you need to infer where all the other numbered answers and blanks go. I don't know what it's called, and I only occassionally find them, but I really enjoy them. My mind feels stretched afterwards. :smile:
Alison
I enjoy crosswords as well, but I'm much more of a number person than a word person. Of course, I realize that Sudoku isn't really about numbers (you could use any set of 9 symbols), but you get the idea.
Haven't solved it after 75 minutes...
...Wow! I could never do it that fast (not yet anyway). But just know that they can and do get a lot harder than the ones on that site. There are even other, harder versions of the puzzle- for instance, the Sudoku in my sunday paper has a 16x16 grid, and you fill it with 0-9 and A-F: it's considerably harder and I actually have never completed one of those. :? And some puzzle books published in Japan even include 25x25 Sudokus. :shock:
I highly doubt there is a single human being out there for whom the very hardest Sudokus are "too easy."
I was only talking about the 9x9 version. I have enormous difficulty in doing any of the ones with letters in because I can't think using letters. I've seen a 16x16 grid and I can never be bothered to start because if you don't see the solution near the start you can be there for hours. Can you imagine ever doing a 25x25 one! That'll take a lifetime to finish!
I really like Sudoku. I find the easier ones a little too easy, and the very hard ones too hard, but I enjoy the medium level ones. I'm not completely "hooked" on them, but I do the one in the newspaper every day at work.
I've never liked crosswords. Although I think my vocabulary is decent, I have a hard time with the clues.
I like the "fill-in" puzzles though. They give you an empty crossword grid and a list of words, and you have to fit them in the grid.
I also really like "logic problems" where you have to work something out based on the clues.