Sudoku

[JolietJake]

God help me .... I think I'm addicted.....

A gut I know at work brings in the paper and it has the daily puzzle. For a while he would just xerox for me and I'd sit and solve it at my desk. After a while he stop subscribing to that paper. Sorry, he says .... "Now I guess, you'll have to pay for your own." Lousy pusher! Now I'm hooked!

Is anybody else a junkie for this insidious number-puzzle.

Here's a link for Sudoku-junkies like me:

http://websudoku.com/

[MacQuarrie]

*raises hand*

[JolietJake]

The sick thing is that it's gotten to be a contest over the lunch-hour at work. To see who can solve it correctly the quickest.

[SteelTownr]

*hand raised as well*

I have often thought about starting a thread about it, but my shame was too great.

Mark B.

[JolietJake]

*hand raised as well*

I have often thought about starting a thread about it, but my shame was too great.

Mark B.

I understand .... But I say to thee .... face thy addiction! What is the internet if not one gigantic, all-inclusive 12-step recovery group laced with German sex-fetishes? I saw brother/ sister we're here to help you come to grips with this fight for your free-time!

[SteelTownr]

I understand .... But I say to thee .... face thy addiction! What is the internet if not one gigantic, all-inclusive 12-step recovery group laced with German sex-fetishes? I saw brother/ sister we're here to help you come to grips with this fight for your free-time!

Maybe if we got the band back together?

Mark B.

[Matt Algren]

Here's another link to sudoku. There's a new one every other day (odd days). Check out the rest of the site too. Pretty good stuff.

http://mistupid.com/sudoku/index.htm

[ghostrider666]

**raises hand as well** I'm not addicted. I can quit any time. Really.

[Matt Algren]

**raises hand as well** I'm not addicted. I can quit any time. Really.
Same here. I just don't want to.

[Lubichev]

My 9 year old loves this game. It is amazing to watch her do this puzzle.

[Brian Cronin]

It reminds me too much of the LSAT.

But I do end up doing it when I happen across it. :)

-Brian

[LtMarvel]

I find this fad rather odd. Dell has been publishing "Number Place" puzzles for decades. They put 9 of them on a single page. To me, the 9x9 grids are like the fifth most interesting puzzle in their Math Puzzles and Logic Problems magazine, behind Figure Logic, Math Mazes, Cross Sums, and the big, juicy 16x16 Number Place (which takes me hours to solve!).

[Pinball]

GAMES magazine has also been running "Number Place" for years, some of them would have oddball irregular-shaped section divisions instead of 3x3's

[Super Macho Man]

Can't get into them. I'm just too impatient to do something like that.

[Paradox]

Yeah, count me in the "befuddled, because I've been doing those for at least a decade (or maybe two) in puzzle books".

I guess all you have to do to get Americans to go for something is put it in their faces and give it a Japanese name. ;)

BTW, the Dell books rock. All others are pretenders.

[DrewTheXenocide]

Yeah, but I only do the easy to mid-ranged ones, as not to harm my self esteem too much, when I can't solve the harder ones.

[Pól Rua]

Please ignore

[Iangould]

I'm not addicted. I can stop any time I want to. I just don't don't want.

As I was explaining to one of my housemates at 2.30 AM last night.

[Brian Cronin]

What do you think is more fun? Sudoku or Crossword puzzles?

-Brian

[Paradox]

Depends on my mood. Sometimes I want to do number puzzles, sometimes word puzzles, sometimes logic problems. I like Cross Sums (now being called Kakuro or something like that) better than Number Place/Sudoku, though.

[LtMarvel]

Crosswords can be obtuse. Especially on Saturday. I like the number puzzles!

[Paradox]

Many crosswords are more solvable if you know what they WANT, rather than the REAL answer.

[Sanagi]

What do you think is more fun? Sudoku or Crossword puzzles?

-Brian
An ideal crossword puzzle with trivia topics that interest me and fair, well-written clues would be better than sudoku, but such crosswords are rare. For instance, Scientific American does one every year. So I go with sudoku %99 of the time.

[Dreadstar]

Crossword puzzles. The Sunday Times is a favorite.

[Paradox]

To me, a good crossword puzzle (like the Sunday Times) is one I can't finish. I buy Dell books and never even touch any of them below "Expert". "Hard" and lower are way too easy for anyone with any kind of decent vocabulary.

[aut0matic]

personally i don't care for sudoku (or puzzles in general), but to all those who do i suggest getting a nintendo DS, if you don't have one already. brain age has a sudoku game included in it which works really well, and there are other standalone sudoku games released for the system (though i can't vouch for those, never played).

you probably already know about it, but just in case :)

[Paul McEnery]

To me, a good crossword puzzle (like the Sunday Times) is one I can't finish. I buy Dell books and never even touch any of them below "Expert". "Hard" and lower are way too easy for anyone with any kind of decent vocabulary.

I highly recommend The Guardian's Crossword puzzles. www.guardian.co.uk/crossword, if memory serves. Sorry, they cost a bit of money, but you get the whole archive. For them what doesn't understand the British style in these things, they provide a handy guide, and often footnote the solutions (which makes me feel like a bonehead when I get the forced AHA! moment, but better than banging my head against the screen, isn't it).

And I especially recommend the setter who goes by the name of Araucaria (all the puzzles are signed by the setter); and the occasional prize crosswords he sets as alphabetical -- the clues are listed by the first letter of the solution, and the grid is unnumbered, and you have to figure out for yourself where the bastard answers are supposed to go, and there's usually a couple of traps there to arse you about, too.

This I like. It makes the whole thing much more of a sado-masochistic competition between solver and setter.

[Paradox]

Never cared for the British ones. Too indoctrinated in my own culture, I guess.

[K'Nort]

What I most like are logic problems. Like where it turns out that Brad Smith bought the blue car in September.

I enjoy both crosswords and Sudoku. I miss the NYT crossword. Not in the local paper. The Portland paper had two crosswords a day. The one here is too lame and pop-focused to bother with.

[Matt Algren]

Rubik's Cube.

I'm thiiiiis close.

[niall mc cann]

What I most like are logic problems. Like where it turns out that Brad Smith bought the blue car in September.

Yeah, I love those too.

Really like Sudoku, though. I have kind of been known to lose big chunks of days to my girlfriend's DS.

[Paradox]

I have puzzle ADD. I can't do too many in a row of one type, or I get bored. :)

OK, first a Logic Puzzle, then a Cross-Sums (OK, two), then an Expert Crossword...hmmm...maybe a Hard Diagramless... :p