Sudoku.

[Beware the Beast Man]

Has anyone ever tried these before? If you don't know what Sudoku is, read on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku

Damn is this frustrating. Sometimes I'll get to the very end of a puzzle and realize I completely screwed up. :argh:

[matcom]

1. been hooked for months

best.puzzle.evah.

[LynneSin]

2. I've been doing them for decades

I enjoy getting the Dell Pencil Puzzle book and they always had them in there. I was quite adept at them!

[ComerPerro]

3. One of my favorites. But I still prefer cryptograms

and logic problems. This is kinda a combination of the two.

When I first saw it a few months ago, I thought it was a magic squares game, where all the lines and rows had to add up to a certain total, and all the squares had to match.

Of course, now that I think about it, every row and every column adds up to 45, as well as the total of each square. So I guess it does work that way, eh?
:evilgrin:

[Chan790]

4. I do them online

at http://www.websudoku.com.

I find it easier to do them there because I don't have pencil marks cluttering the boxes and you can see how long it took vs. other people and they have 2,600,000,000 puzzles.

Anybody else got a good sudoku website?

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Excellent. Thanks!

:thumbsup:

[BikeWriter]

17. Hmm, I'm not sure I like these. Crosswords...

are my favorite. My fastest time on the New York Times Crosswords was eight minutes and forty-five seconds.

[ComerPerro]

5. Play it here

http://www.gamehouse.com/onlinegames/playgame.jsp?navnum=1&AID=5274&game=sudoku&code=sudoku!

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. thanks!

[ComerPerro]

9. The thing I like about this site is the option to "test"

[eyesroll]

7. I used to do logic puzzles. Then I took the LSAT.

I don't want to do logic puzzles anymore.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Ironically, when I took the GRE,

the only portion I did not study for was the analytical reasoning. Guess where I scored the highest? :)

[eyesroll]

14. I didn't study for the logical reasoning or reading comp

(beyond taking a few practice sections)...but the games were going to kill me if I didn't figure them out. The problem wasn't doing them -- it was doing them quickly enough. Even on test day, that was the only section that required the entire 35 minutes. Everything else, I finished with several minutes to spare. (I'm usually quick that way.)

I scored nearly identically on every section.

[Shell Beau]

11. They have been printing these in one

of my weekly magazines I get. Usually magazines have a crossword puzzle, but one particular one I get has these in it. I have never tried it before b/c the instructions they give aren't all that clear. I'll try it this week!! :)

[ComerPerro]

15. The instructions probably didn't seem very clear, because there are so few

I know that was my problem when I first saw it. I tend to assume things are more complex than they really are.

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

16. That is probably it. I tend to make it more complicated

than it really is. :shrug:


:hi:

[El Fuego]

12. I like to do the ones labeled "easy" in the newspaper

I did the one yesterday which had just one star. The puzzles with lots of stars just take too much time! I don't even attempt them anymore because it's so frustrating.

[malta blue]

13. my hubby is hooked

goes through about 10 puzzles a day

[alarcojon]

18. They're cool

Some of the harder ones are really tough. You can start out with easy ones, though.

[TheMightyFavog]

19. Sudokus are inferior.

All bow to the Mighty Crossword!!

If Sudokus are soo good, why don't they have one in the New York Times?

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. See, I guess I'm old-school, too, because I prefer crosswords.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. My sister is obsessed with it

[lumberingbear]

21. Bought a couple Sudoku books at bookstore yesterday.

Going to start on them today. Worked a couple puzzels online a while back. It was fun. (Can't remember the website)

[KitchenWitch]

22. Love Sudoku!

[Strong Atheist]

24. They have displaced the

bridge column in the washington post... it has been moved, probably as a prelude to axing it :mad:

~ from a bridge fanatic...

[Jamastiene]

25. USA Today has a daily one. You can get hints to get you

started on the harder ones. I am so addicted to those.


It's here:
http://puzzles.usatoday.com/sudoku/index.html

[cmd]

26. Love them, especially the 16 square ones

I spend far too much time working logic, sudoku, and work games. It's my mental exercise to combat any chance of Alzheimer's. It seems to be working. A recent MRI showed that I didn't even have normal aging in my brain.