Sucked in by Sudoku

[hildy89]

I've resisted the sudoku craze. I've tried it on occasion, only to put the puzzle down in frustration. However, since the Express puzzles go from Moderate to Difficult on a day's whim, it could be I was simply starting too high. So I broke down and bought a book of easy puzzles. I've since discovered free puzzles online, but hey, the book is useful on the long commute in. I was breezing through the easy ones and said I needed more of a challenge. So I tried some of moderate ones at the back. More frustration, more flinging of the book down. Then in the middle of waiting for Sci Fi Friday, I solved one. And then another. Now I feel better. Or something.

Comments

[suzy_queue]

I'd never played until I came across the Who version on the BBC site. It's a lot more fun and interesting when playing with Nine doctors. Ten is the reward. *g*

[hildy.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That was a distracting puzzle, looking at all the Doctors. There are any number of variants cropping up now with words and so forth. I even saw one using the different baseball position abbreviations. (Which weirdly reminded me of the old cartoon I saw once way back back with the "Who's on first?" joke with the Doctors. At that point, they were only six or seven doctors, so the punchline was "In a few more seasons, we'll have the whole lineup." And now they do... complete with Tennant as DH if need be. How random and amusing.)

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

I love http://www.gamehouse.com/onlinegames/playgame.jsp?navnum=9

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Sudowhatwhat?

BTW, you want to do something again tomorrow? I'm being abandoned for the same dungeon as last week, and we had fun!

[hildy.livejournal.com]

I'd probably be interested.

Sudoku is a puzzle game that's rivalling or surpassing crossword puzzles for popularity these days. It's a 9X9 grid and each are broken down into 3X3 sections. You have to have to fit 1-9 on each section without any conflicts in the other sections. It's a lot of logic and "That can't go there, so it must go here" deductions.