Do You Sudoku?

[mycroftt]

How about it - does anybody else do those Sudoku number puzzles that suddenly seem to be all the rage among puzzlers? I started doing them a couple of weeks ago and I seem to be addicted to them now. I have to work on them wherever they appear and I have bought a book and I solve them online too. What's up with these things anyway?

 

[Ken C.]

They hurt my brain.

 

[Point44]

I did do Sudoku for awhile. After awhile it got less and less challenging and i got bored with it. The thing is you follow the same system all the time and it gets too easy after awhile.

 

[MikeH]

I am addicted. I am about half-way through my third book, and never miss the puzzle in the daily newspaper. They have totally surplanted my former love of crossword puzzles.

Incidently, the most enjoyable ones I have found are in a book by the original developers, who generate the puzzles without use of computers. The most difficult ones I have encountered are in the books by Will Shortz, puzzle editor of the New York Times. Some of these are diabolical.

 

[Gigante]

What Point44 said. After a while it gets monotone. Every puzzle is the same thing, you have a number of ways to approach the problem and you try them for all the numbers in all the squares... over and over again. Boring.

 

[Paul Davidson]

I love Sudoku, and I love crossword puzzles. I go through phases with both, but I like to do a Sudoku puzzle or two after doing a long crossword puzzle because it "exercises different brain muscles."

They are all the same but when you start doing the really hard ones it still takes some mental effort and varied strategies to finish them.

 

[Ilovetoolsteel]

I try, Every sunday I try, then after about 25 minutes with no success, I do the Jumble so I don't feel like such a moron.