I give these puzzles to my students and they just write random numbers in the boxes and then give up. :-) At least it keeps them quiet. Woo!

God do I hate that crap. Anything involving mathematics is torture to me. I guess that's why I am a programmer... Someone please kill me, NOW. The thing is that the puzzles are not difficult, just why would you expend energy on them when you could be doing crossword puzzles?

...why is this under the tech tab?

/hates sudoku

Is this the sound of no one caring??

It's lonely.

Just to be clear, sudoku is not math. Its a logic problem. Number = symbols and thus have no numerical value.

And I still cannot figure HOW teh Fark to do the stupid thing!!

sudoku puzzle from Hell

BigDumbGuy

God do I hate that crap. Anything involving mathematics is torture to me. I guess that's why I am a programmer... Someone please kill me, NOW. The thing is that the puzzles are not difficult, just why would you expend energy on them when you could be doing crossword puzzles?

1. Sudoku is not math, it is logic, you could easily replace the numbers with letters or random symbols.

2. Many sudoku puzzles are very difficult, but the ones published in car and truck monthly are probably rated easy, and should be solvable in about 6-7 minutes for the average person.

3. Just because you prefer to work on crosswords, which are more fact and memory based, does not mean that everyone perfers that type of intellectual stimulation.

4. Applied logic and pattern recognition are what are traditionally used for IQ assessment, so there is certainly no harm in working to improve these skills.

She's the first and last winner, because of that guy would invented the algorithm that solves EVERY Sudoku puzzle.

krazydiamond: 3. Just because you prefer to work on crosswords, which are more fact and memory based, does not mean that everyone perfers that type of intellectual stimulation.


Hahahahaha! The crossword is right under the Sudoku!

I do them both, along with the Jumble!

/I'm some kind of newspaper puzzle GENIUS! GENIUS, I say! GENIUS!!

Thanks all. Ok, I will give another go at soduku. And I am very good at logic-- maxed it out on my LSAT score. Hell, I even took it as a class as an undergraduate-- something about having to take a "math" class, logic filling the requirement.

But yes, point 3 of krazydiamond's post does apply. To each his own. But damn, those NYT crosswords get tough towards the end of the week...

Is that damn sudoku hype not over yet?

mmagdalene: I'll bet she rules at Scrabble, too.

I rule on Scrabble as well. My familly is fiercelly competative at Scrabble. Seriouslly, fights have broken out over the game.

Russian Capture ehh Kar98??

Coding a Sudoku solver is a snap, but can you actually CREATE the sudoku puzzle itself?