Puzzles are another passion of mine. As long as cheating is allowed.
For many years this has been my mindsuck: (Sudoku)
I like it because I can see all of any one number in the puzzle by clicking on the one I’m curious about. Like this: (chosen Sudoku number)
And though I’ve chosen to stay with the moderate level, I’m sure that my actual level is beginner. I know this because I find these hard:
Outside of filling each empty box with penciled in possible numbers I rarely see the answer until the page is full of eraser smudges. And even then… see the clothespin? Yeah, holding the solution page ready for peeking. Yet, I’m obsessed and feel that someday I might get it. That idea in itself is the real puzzle!
And puzzle me this, my other non-electronic fun is:
Yes, that is a clothespin to the answers. The thing about crosswords is you need to be a mind reader. Did the puzzle maker mean the vegetable or the actor? Is it spelled the way we’re taught in school or in another language or some abbreviation of some company name?
Still, I can spend hours in puzzlement about the brains of puzzle makers versus my ADD/dyslexic 71 year-old brain.
They say these are supposed to keep our minds nimble.
In the background I have Beauty and the Beast on. This is it’s last day on Netflix. I’m only on season one and there are four. Why I chose to wait until the last minute for everything is another puzzle. By the way, I would normally plug in a trailer here but electricity and internet are intermittent.
On a day like today:
Nothing is better than:
And a puzzle.
Per Linda:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “puzzle.” Use it any way you’d like!
I love crossword puzzles, but not too good with numbers though . Enjoy your cuppa but that drink looks more like a pint of stout than a cuppa to me 💜
Sudoku can be played with colors or 9 different shapes. It isn’t math. It’s just a puzzle of lining things up and not repeating in a square or line.
It was my morning coffee. With the Intermittent Fasting I can have water, coffee or tea. Stout not allow(t). Hehe.
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I love to do a crossword puzzle, but unlike my dad I am no good at them. I do like completing a Sudoku but like you I hardly ever go beyond easy.
I’m glad I’m not alone! 😊
I wish I could do the sudoku puzzles, but I just don’t get it. Crosswords, words with friends, word search, unscramble are more my cup of tea…or coffee, lol!
I bought a word search with the Sudoku and Crossword books. I’m kind of bored with the word search and wish I’d gotten an unscramble or even, geez, I can’t recall what the puzzles are called where you decode a phrase? You just reminded me how much fun those were, like secret codes of our youth. By the way, I still like tea better than coffee but I drink both during my fast times. Earl Grey is calling!
I tend to drink hot tea more in the winter. But still drink coffee with breakfast. I like sugar free cocoa too.
Send me the link for your sudoku, is it online? Maybe I can hit the learn tab and figure one out!
Yummy hot drinks! The Sudoku is an Android app. I have seen so many that just left me lost. I don’t know if there is an Apple one.
I just looked up Enjoy Sudoku and found there is an online version.
http://www.enjoysudoku.com/webplay/
Also, I actually paid for my app as the free version made me see I was hooked. 😊