My wife has become enthralled with sudoku. In case you're not acquainted with sodoku, it's a puzzle game in which a 9x9 grouping of squares (like a crossword puzzle, without the blacked out boxes) is littered with a few numbers as "clues." The object of the game is to fill in all the remaining squares with numbers, so that each row and column has each number between one and nine used only once. I have not tried it; it seems to me to be something that could consume the mind...one could stay awake for days and days, trying to solve the puzzle.
This sort of puzzle game has particular appeal to certain personalities, I think. People who are exceptionally high on certain aptitudes seem to like the game. My wife has exceptional abilities to focus her problem-solving skills on the task at hand, keeping all other stimuli at bay. I, on the other hand, am afraid of such puzzles...if I am not instantly good at them, I get annoyed with them and their creators...and I begin to question my intelligence.
If I ever try my hand at sudoku, I will write about my experiences...and my mood during the process.
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