Thursday, August 11, 2005

Su-doku


I am totally hooked on this puzzle. I started doing it when the London Mirror newspaper started printing them and including them on their online site. Now the Washington Post prints one every day, too, and I found software for my laptop that generates new puzzles endlessly. The goal is to fill in the blanks to that you have the numbers 1-9 listed once each in every row across, row up and down, and in every smaller 9-block square. Interestingly, I read an article that said that mathematical ability plays only a small role in your ability to be good at this puzzle, it has more to do with seeing patterns, problem solving, and using the process of elimination.

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