<p>It's my newest addiction. I think I'm kind of late, but MAN. I was nearly up to 3 AM doing a puzzle. I'm such a nerd, but there's got to be others out there! Hear hear!</p>
<p>hear hear! Let's talk some strategy.</p>
<p>At your school do all the preppy kids play it? For some reason at my school basically every preppy kid played sudoku.</p>
<p>Actually, I haven't heard of any of the kids at my school playing it. Sad thing is I'm in JAPAN... and isn't that where Sudoku originated? </p>
<p>I just started a couple of days ago (I was in the book store, and that sudoku book was screaming my name), and so far, I've got nada on strategy. Aw.</p>
<p>From what I've seen they write all the possible numbers for each square really small. Then they just keep narrowing them down.</p>
<p>Yaar, I've got that. But when I'm done doing that, all I have is this mass of tiny numbers and a blank look on my face because I don't know what to do there. Newbie's right!</p>
<p>I love Sudoku!</p>
<p>Yeah it really caught on in my school, but when I tell people about it not from NJ, there like what's that? But oh well, the technique that works pretty well is the dot one, though I usually just go for it and write in pen, oops.</p>
<p>Almost all puzzles can be solved with logic -- meaning you don't have to guess. Some puzzles are rated as "diabolical" -- those are the ones that involve guessing.
Now if you want a challenge, try a Samurai Sudoku. It is five overlapping puzzles. I swear your brain will hurt by the time you finish it.</p>
<p>^My friend does that Samurai Sudoku. It's insane. He'd spend an entire free period on it sometimes.</p>
<p>I still with my one puzzle, thank you.</p>
<p>Everyday I do the daily and New York Times crossword puzzles & jumble at lunch. I've attempted the Sudoku puzzle, but I usually wind up with a headache before I've even made a dent in it. Are there any tricks or easy ways to complete it?</p>
<p>My daughter's Algebra 2 teacher assigned one every week in their Friday sheets - as the year progressed the puzzles got even tougher.</p>
<p>You guys don't want to know how much time I spent during boring lectures working on these...
That said, instead of writing numbers in the tiny boxes I'd recommend instead putting a dot in the upper left-hand corner to stand for a 1, a dot in the middle-left at the edge for 2, a dot at the lower left-hand corner for 3, etc. Numbers are too big for the tiny squares and get messy, but a dot system works well.</p>
<p>some of the harder puzzles (and especially the samurai sudokus) give me massive headaches...</p>
<p>But I can't stop playing</p>
<p>Man. I was up until four am doing one this morning. I get an unexplainable hardcore adrenaline surge from just solving one. Oh gracious!</p>
<p>Hey, that dot technique sounds great, stargirl-- I'll have to try that. Those numbers tend to get in the way... </p>
<p>Also, when you guys begin on a new puzzle, do you start in order (1,2,3,4...)?</p>
<p>Sudoku became quite popular in my university last spring!!We spent all our free times having competitions!It sucks you right in doesn't it!I've been obsessed ever since!The really crazy ones do tend to give me a headache though...</p>
<p>Sudoku is fun until you become addicted and then you realize that you're wasting your life writing numbers in squares. And then it's boring.</p>
<p>I taught my third graders to do it on our laptops at school last year. They got so good they could do the easy ones in 5.5 minutes! They really preferred the computer based ones since they would get frustrated writing the numbers but didn't mind typing them. I am hooked and have been doing it all summer! Of course, I am trying to stave off age-related demetia!...:)</p>
<p>WOW. 5.5 minutes? That's insane. It takes me a couple of days to do the easy ones, but only a couple of hours for the harder ones...? It doesn't make sense to me!! T__T</p>
<p>^days???
haha...sudoku is the best....we always played in physics cuz this girl had a book of them and we'd rip them out and play...kinda explains my grade in physics..</p>