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by ksoniat

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My sister got me started - they were in her daily paper (Seattle) before I even heard of them.

I have recently discovered "jigsaw" sudoku which adds a whole level of complexity.

I was at an "Invention Convention" waiting for my daughter's project to be judged, and the judges walked by where I was sitting with some sudoku to tide me over the possible 2 hour wait. Most commented on it being a good idea to pass the time and how they enjoyed them . I wondered if it was because it was a group of technical / professional types.

So I though I'd poll my new favorite group of technical professionals.

Do you Sudoku?
Or if you knew you'd have a two hour wait in a Dr. office where you were a captive audience while test results were being processed what would be your preferred way to pass the time?

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by fregeus

Every morning on my way to work, on my way back and when I have to wait for something. It a purely logical puzzle, which is why I like it so much.

TCB

by rfink

www.sudoku.org.uk

It has a daily competition in regular, jigsaw and killer sudokus.

The grade of the puzzles vary by the day of the week. If you like sudoku you owe it to yourself to try this website.

Best of all, it's free!

by ksoniat

Thanks for the link RFink.

I complete moderate to tough on regular ones. On the jigsaw I still am at "Gentle".

by tony hopkinson

Get's the brain ticking over.
Most newspapers, you get nowadys the puzzle page is the only one worth reading...

by ksoniat

I hope you are taking public transport while you are completing the puzzle.

I've heard about texting and driving, not Sukodu and driving. :)

When I spent a few summers in Seattle during college I would always have a book for the bus ride into the city to work. The trip went really fast.

by tony hopkinson

My commute which fortunately is down to two days a week now, is extensive. Get up at six, at work for 9:30, leave at 18:30 (avoid rush hour), home for 21:20.

Train, tram and the odd mistake due to rain spots blurring my working out. :p

by gsg

I love it. A few years ago, I had surgery and stayed a couple of days at my parent's house. My Dad had never seen Sudoku, so I showed him how it was done, and recommended that he do his first puzzle in pencil and to do one of the easier ones in the book. Well, Mr Smarty Pants did his in ink, and did one of the harder ones. Three hours later, he quietly hands the book back to me, puzzle unfinished, and says, "Never mention Sudoku to me ever again."

by ksoniat

Even has a computer version (even lets you put little "possibles" in the squares). He's the one to introduce me to "jigsaw"

You either love it or hate it.

by ksoniat

My hubby used to have an hour commute each way to work. Now he is in Alabama during the week and comes home weekends (5 hours). He jokes he has the same commute, just all crammed into the weekend.

Nowadays one must do what one must do.

by tony hopkinson

As soon as I moved away from the local steelworks, I was commuting. Sounds a bind, but the first time I did it, I got a 10k payrise, which gave me some loose change after paying for the ticket....
I did 18 months in Amsterdam on silly money with a needed skills tax incentive (20% !) as well. Well worth the trip.

by the scummy one

put a 0 at each corner touching the 1. Then put a 1 at the opposite corner :D

I am still stuck on where 01, 001, 0001 and 00001 go.

by wizard-09

Me consult the book of wisdom on this one, before my brain goes into over load and crashes out again for the 2nd time today :)

by locolobo

Part of our daily routine is for someone to make 2sided copies of various puzzles from the paper. I usually start with the Sudoku. Also available is Scrabble, Jumble and Crossword. It's a daily break for 5 or 6 of us here.

I rarely finish the Scrabble. There is just something wrong with my brain in that department. The Sudoku is usually straightforward. Why is it so hard to rearrange words in my head?

I haven't seen the jigsaw sudoku. I'll look it up. You're right about it being a great way to kill time waiting in various offices. I keep copies of some of the difficult sudokus that I screwed up and take them to the Drs office/etc to rework.

by charliespencer

If I'm stuck in the airport, I'll do the one in USA Today. I'm carrying the crossword home to my wife and she doesn't do Sudoku. I've got a pretty good success rate, probably around 75%, but I don't feel compelled to do one regularly or even finish one if I start it.

by nicknielsen

[i]if you knew you'd have a two hour wait in a Dr. office where you were a captive audience while test results were being processed what would be your preferred way to pass the time?[/i]

Okay, done.

If I knew going in that I would be spending that much time there, I'd probably take a book. When I get tired of reading, I've got the Breakout knock-off on the formerly-a-Blackberry-now-just-a-lowly-PDA or a Tetris knock-off on my cell phone.

And of course, I can always step outside for a smoke...

Edit: and there's always a crossword somewhere. I just haven't been able to get interested in Sudoku.

by charliespencer

I don't have to know in advance; there's always an 'Uncle John's Bathroom Reader' in the car for just such an emergency. And definitely crosswords over Sudoku. Or bring headphones and go for a walk. Nothing says I have to wait in the office.

by ksoniat

Yep, it's an ucky diabetes test where you drank this gross junk after fasting and they watch to make sure you don't eat or drink anything else during that two hours.

Don't you do what you are told?

Do you run with scissors? ]:)

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