I'm Addicted
Years ago, Heidi Zehnder, my beloved roommate of 3 years and dear friend, bought me a book of puzzle games. In this book were a few pages with a game consisting of a large square box filled with 81 smaller boxes and numbers placed sporatically about. After reading the instructions I said "um...no" and turned to see what the next page had to offer. Surely it was something better than anything to do with numbers. This puzzle book has been significant in my life ever since I got it. It still has many pages of untouched, mind stretching puzzles ready to ammuse me any time I have spare moment (Ha, Ha! Spare moment...that's the funniest thing I've said all year). However it wasn't until about mid pregnancy that I decided to open it up after hibernating under my nightstand for about six months. Ironicly it was the large square box with 81 tiny boxes inside it that I was in search of...thankful that those couple years before I found the game repulsive so that I would have them to satisfy my craving to defeat yet another Sudoku puzzle.
The addiction started when I worked at The Ketch, a little seafood joint on Southland Dr. here in Lexington. I don't ever eat there but the food is really good and prepared by a woman who's looks let you know she is good at what she does! Since most of Lexington hardly ever eats there either I found myself bored to tears when I worked day shift. That is until one night when my big sis Amber (also a former Ketch waitress) and I endulged in the daily newspaper games. We completed the Jumble and Scrabble and were working on the crossword puzzle when we had to surrender the games until the "night crowd" died down a bit. I began using this resource as a form of entertainment during my day shifts but the fun always ended to soon so one day I gave in. I flipped the page to the sudoku square and took a second stab at it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It was about that time that everyone else discovered the joys of Sudoku and it started popping up every I went. I am now a hopeless addict. I crave the tiny boxes.
Thanks to my pal google.com I found websudoku.com and a whole new world of has opened up right before my eyes. So fast I can hardly keep up. You can play a range of games form easy to evil right online and there is always a "today's variation" which was the doorway to all things sudoku. There are " 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 different completed 9x9 Sudokus" according to the site. Sudoku puzzles go from 4x4 to 100x100 squares (9x9 is the most common). There is Sudoku X where the numbers 1-9 can only cocur once in the X made in the center of the large box by all the small boxes. There is Alphabet Sudoku that is a 1 2x12 puzzle and you have to place A-L in all the tiny boxes. And how could I forget Jigsaw Sudoku where the numbers go into oddly shaped boxes rather than nice 3x3 squares. There is so much I am reading about on this Wikipedia.com site that I am about to explode with sudoku excitement overload. I have mastered any easy puzzle that wants to show it's face and I am currently working on mastering the medium level puzzles. I'm feeling overwhelmed with all that lies before me in my sudoku future and I am also jonesin' for a fix from all this elaborate talk about it. MUST DO A SUDOKU PUZZLE NOW!!! Until next time...
The addiction started when I worked at The Ketch, a little seafood joint on Southland Dr. here in Lexington. I don't ever eat there but the food is really good and prepared by a woman who's looks let you know she is good at what she does! Since most of Lexington hardly ever eats there either I found myself bored to tears when I worked day shift. That is until one night when my big sis Amber (also a former Ketch waitress) and I endulged in the daily newspaper games. We completed the Jumble and Scrabble and were working on the crossword puzzle when we had to surrender the games until the "night crowd" died down a bit. I began using this resource as a form of entertainment during my day shifts but the fun always ended to soon so one day I gave in. I flipped the page to the sudoku square and took a second stab at it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It was about that time that everyone else discovered the joys of Sudoku and it started popping up every I went. I am now a hopeless addict. I crave the tiny boxes.
Thanks to my pal google.com I found websudoku.com and a whole new world of has opened up right before my eyes. So fast I can hardly keep up. You can play a range of games form easy to evil right online and there is always a "today's variation" which was the doorway to all things sudoku. There are " 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 different completed 9x9 Sudokus" according to the site. Sudoku puzzles go from 4x4 to 100x100 squares (9x9 is the most common). There is Sudoku X where the numbers 1-9 can only cocur once in the X made in the center of the large box by all the small boxes. There is Alphabet Sudoku that is a 1 2x12 puzzle and you have to place A-L in all the tiny boxes. And how could I forget Jigsaw Sudoku where the numbers go into oddly shaped boxes rather than nice 3x3 squares. There is so much I am reading about on this Wikipedia.com site that I am about to explode with sudoku excitement overload. I have mastered any easy puzzle that wants to show it's face and I am currently working on mastering the medium level puzzles. I'm feeling overwhelmed with all that lies before me in my sudoku future and I am also jonesin' for a fix from all this elaborate talk about it. MUST DO A SUDOKU PUZZLE NOW!!! Until next time...
posted by Leiah @ 8:07 PM
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