Anyone here who plays sudoku?

get, Mr. Sudoku, a Japanese, invented the game. Sudoku can really be addicting. I used to buy two or three newspapers just to play sudoku. But in the bookstores, there are sudoku booklets that cost only Php 15. Stay with the printed ones, for your eyes' sake.

I could bust the motherboard for playing Sudoku. Then I will bury it and print a Sudoku on the Tombstone. I will solve newspaper ones with pencils and keep them so that after a year I can erase them and solve them again. Perhaps I will keep one under my pillow. I may also save money to build a fund in the name of Sudoku and there will be tournaments each year. The winners will get stuffs from my fund. If I ever marry I will teach my wife and children how to play the game, so that generation after generation we play it, and then perhaps someday, people will call us one big Sudoku family. I can do almost anything for Sudoku.

But if it helps, there is already one Asian Sudoku competition in Singapore I think. Perhaps you can vent your sudoku anxiety there and turn the woes into bucks. Good way to have money for future wife and family.

srganesh, the newspaper puzzles are quite exciting. Sometimes, there are two puzzles partly juxtaposed and you have to solve both. I solve the puzzles when I am waiting for my daughters at McDonald's. Many parents wait there for their children too and they try to solve the crossword. Grab the printed sudokus. There are no clues.

Thanks for the idea to try on newspaper puzzles. But we use to buy only our regional language paper which is not in English and I have seen such sudoku puzzles in only those papers. Anyhow, I will try it when I have a chance. Even the mobile games will be a challenge, if we don't go for the help.

Yup! Sudoku is a stress reliever.

Sandra, I will look for Samurai sudoku. 5 interlocking grids? Super challenger that is!

Good friends, huh!

True bloggeroo, I have not solved one in a long time too because of the very reasons you stated.

Hi type, I solve the ones in the Inquirer and the puzzles has stars to show the level of difficulty. 1 star means easy, 5 stars is difficult. Most people I see at McDonald's (where the Inquirer is free), can solve up to level 3. I am sort of "mayabang" (proud) when I get my puzzle done soon enough and I watch them struggle with quizzical brows. I can do level 5 easily. My daughters say I am bad. But I just wanted to have a good laugh! The Sunday Magazine sudoku is a challenger and I have not ever solved any of it yet. So my daughters say "See, you think you are the best sudoku player in the world. You are not ma, you are not!" Point well taken.

puccagirl, the printed one is far better than the online and mobile sudoku. You can always pause and leave it when you have to eat or do something. Then you can always grab the sudoku and your pen when you are ready to do the puzzle again.