How many of you are doing these puzzles?


Addicted or afflicted?

love 'em

Imago777 said:

me too!

REDFEATHERS said:

I don't think we're really going to save this thread with our ferver, but I'd like to just give one more shout out!

Imago777 said:

I could post some links...

http://www.websudoku.com/

REDFEATHERS said:

..anyway I was just interested in who did these.. edit.

REDFEATHERS said:

I tried about 2 or 3 (Becuase I love crossword puzzles, but found them taxing), and the next you know, I'm hooked.

These are my favorite puzzles right now. Very addictive.

shellyevon said:

After I finished my first one, I was so proud I was going to have it framed.

littlemissG said:

I got a book of 401 of these for Christmas.

Or at least, that's what sounded like was inside when I shook the parcel.

love them

I adore these. I'm a math instructor at college and my colleagues and I are doing a mathematical analysis of the game, such as the range of filled squares that guarantee the existence of a solution, the total number of completed Sudoku squares, and the point at which a guaranteed solution must be unique.

Someone gave me a Samurai Sudoku today which is basically 5 Sudoku squares interwoven.

Thing is, there's no real skill involved, only time. The easy ones you can do just by going from square to square to see if you can get it quickly and build from there. The hard ones you can write down real small in the corner of each square the possible numbers for that square and deduce them all from there. Good fun though. I can't wait to open my present to find the book of 401 Sudoku puzzles.

I like these a lot. The problem is, once you make a mistake, everything else is based on that mistake, and it's very hard to correct. But I like that it's not based on knowledge, but thinking.

I got into them a few months ago but got too addicted so I'm taking a break at the moment.

friend of mine told me about them, and i looked at it, but didn't have a chance to play. how do you play?

This thread is like a Sudoko puzzle without the grid or numbers.

Well, I'm addicted now. lol

Thanks for sharing.

Fauxie said:

The skill is in how much time it takes to complete it!

Moonbeam said:

I know. That was a little stupid to say 'no real skill involved'. What I mean is that there's no doubt you can complete any of them, eventually, if you're methodical. With the easy ones I just go to and fro as I please finding ones I can fill in, but with very hard ones I write in the corner of each square the possible numbers each square could be and then just systematically work it out.

So how long do they think is a good target time to complete one in? My new book starts from easy up to very hard and I've done 3 or 4 of the easy ones in around 5 minutes or so each. The ones at the back of the book look harder than any I've seen before though.

REDFEATHERS said:

WOW...ok added it to my favorites ..Ill have to check it out tomorrow
when Im more awake...lol
thanx for the link!

i don't think i'm smart enough...i'll admit it...i don't really understand them.


i'll stick with the crosswords.

that was fun 1st time around .... next ?

love em...so addictive

SIGH

You all swayed to the dark side. It's a HYPE. You all bought into it, you Harry potter fans.



Now on sale at my store; the Sudoku computer, a little handheld thing with 50>000 sudoku's...
Only 14,95

HamsterHuey said:

Hey I'm a math teacher. I don't need hype to get me into math!