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snugglekitty) wrote2005-12-17 09:28 am
snugglekitty) wrote2005-12-17 09:28 am
sudoku
You know how sometimes you do something just because you want to understand it a little bit?
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mrpet and I were in Michigan, his parents were doing a lot of sudoku puzzles. Apparently, they're big in the Midwest.
I asked his mom to print out some easy ones that we could take on the plane with us. I decided that I wanted to do a few until I felt like I understood something about how to do them, or why people like them, or whatever. They didn't really appeal to me, and I wondered what the interest was.
I did five or so. I started with "very easy" and then moved on to "easy." The last one I finished twenty minutes ago. During the second-to-last one, I had a breakthrough in my understanding of how to look at the puzzles, and then it really was easy. I applied my new ruleset to the next one and went through it in about five minutes. It was neat to feel like I suddenly got it, was looking for patterns in a new way.
I think that makes me done. I'm not sure that these puzzles have anything more to teach me. And I would rather spend my time knitting, or reading, or being with the people I love. But I do plan to tell my mother about them. She likes paper puzzles.
While
mrpet and I were in Michigan, his parents were doing a lot of sudoku puzzles. Apparently, they're big in the Midwest. I asked his mom to print out some easy ones that we could take on the plane with us. I decided that I wanted to do a few until I felt like I understood something about how to do them, or why people like them, or whatever. They didn't really appeal to me, and I wondered what the interest was.
I did five or so. I started with "very easy" and then moved on to "easy." The last one I finished twenty minutes ago. During the second-to-last one, I had a breakthrough in my understanding of how to look at the puzzles, and then it really was easy. I applied my new ruleset to the next one and went through it in about five minutes. It was neat to feel like I suddenly got it, was looking for patterns in a new way.
I think that makes me done. I'm not sure that these puzzles have anything more to teach me. And I would rather spend my time knitting, or reading, or being with the people I love. But I do plan to tell my mother about them. She likes paper puzzles.