<p>Why or why not?
just wondering...</p>
<p>It correlates to intelligence.</p>
<p>It may help with memory/mental tests that measure mental abilities closely related to solving sudoku puzzles. But that does not mean that the "improvement" in such SPECIFIC mental abilities is going to help you in the real world - or help you ward off memory loss. It may help with only very specific types of memory. The fact of the matter is - training in most mental pursuits will only improve your functioning in areas closely related to those mental pursuits - they will not improve your reasoning abilities in areas that aren't so closely related to such mental pursuits.</p>
<p>If you have nothing else to do, it's probably better than nothing. It's probably better than what MANY Americans do - namely, watch hours and hours of television and produce very little novel behavior in the face of stimuli redundancy ad nauseam. But if you already have a fully engaged mental life, it's probably best for you to continue on that mental life, rather than to waste your time on such sudoku puzzles.</p>
<p>Only if you can spell it properly.</p>
<p>^ Oh. Buuuurrrrnnn.</p>
<p>If you play it long enough, you might learn how to spell it.</p>
<p>I was going to post that if no one else had.</p>
<p>I always like how the math teachers let you do those for extra credit, even though it has nothing to do with math. You could just as easily replace 1-9 with !@#$%^&*( and it would still work.</p>
<p>^ Silly. It has everything to do with math. So long as the students look at actual numbers, they're learning math. Duuh.</p>
<p>The "1337" in your post count is really helping my in my AP Stats class.</p>
<p>^how so? o.0</p>
<p>How can you not find a usage for 1337? Shame.</p>