Addicted to Sudoku
I enjoyed solving a sudoku puzzle once in a while if found one in a magazine or a newspaper at home, in flights or while waiting for my appointments in salons or at the doctor's. i presumed Sudoku was for intelligent, brainy people or that someone preoccupied with solving a sudoku puzzle was a smart person :). nothin like that haan
though it was fun initially and fueled my ego everytime i solved a medium-hard puzzle, it did more damage when i couldn't solve one or realised i did a mistake after spending more than half hour on a puzzle. it was frustrating, least appealing.
then i simply quit solving sudoku puzzles, feeling dumb at my inability to complete or solve a puzzle. I rather read the rest of the newspaper/magazines or a novel or played tens of games of solitaire on my notebook or simply browsed tons of material on the internet.
on my recent trip to rjy, where there was limited access to internet and restricted lone time and space and pre-set expectations from me to entertain people, Sudoku came to my rescue. this time i felt Sudoku was a pure positive influnce in my life :D. i whipped out a pen, grabbed the sudoku puzzle and sat with it till i completed. i was amazed at my ability to concentrate, not be distracted and enjoy solving the puzzles and actually finish them correct! i guess i felt it was better to enjoy myself solving the sudokus rather than entertain people i hardly knew.:P
anyway, a kill-time option become my favourite past-time and i am now addicted to sudoku. I solve a couple or more a day. i even have websites with puzzles bookmarked and run for the newspaper in the morning to grab the page with puzzle and i am loving it. i stay up late or solve one when i wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. the hard puzzles, especially, are good sleep inducers at nights ;). i finish those the next morning :)
fun. enjoying Sudoku for now ;) and i may have just discovered/invented a trick or two of my own to speed up the solving technique.
here i go joining the bandwagon of the many sudoku lovers/addicts around the world.
though it was fun initially and fueled my ego everytime i solved a medium-hard puzzle, it did more damage when i couldn't solve one or realised i did a mistake after spending more than half hour on a puzzle. it was frustrating, least appealing.
then i simply quit solving sudoku puzzles, feeling dumb at my inability to complete or solve a puzzle. I rather read the rest of the newspaper/magazines or a novel or played tens of games of solitaire on my notebook or simply browsed tons of material on the internet.
on my recent trip to rjy, where there was limited access to internet and restricted lone time and space and pre-set expectations from me to entertain people, Sudoku came to my rescue. this time i felt Sudoku was a pure positive influnce in my life :D. i whipped out a pen, grabbed the sudoku puzzle and sat with it till i completed. i was amazed at my ability to concentrate, not be distracted and enjoy solving the puzzles and actually finish them correct! i guess i felt it was better to enjoy myself solving the sudokus rather than entertain people i hardly knew.:P
anyway, a kill-time option become my favourite past-time and i am now addicted to sudoku. I solve a couple or more a day. i even have websites with puzzles bookmarked and run for the newspaper in the morning to grab the page with puzzle and i am loving it. i stay up late or solve one when i wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. the hard puzzles, especially, are good sleep inducers at nights ;). i finish those the next morning :)
fun. enjoying Sudoku for now ;) and i may have just discovered/invented a trick or two of my own to speed up the solving technique.
here i go joining the bandwagon of the many sudoku lovers/addicts around the world.
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