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Submitted by: Charles Hawkins
The Sudoku puzzle has hit wests magazines and papers with such a immense impact, that it has to be the mystery game launch of the century. But what is it that yield drawing numeral characters into small boxes so very addictive?
One part of the equation has definitely to be obvious simplicity of the enigma. The instructions of Sudoku are so easy to absorb that everyone can start solving almost immediately.Yet complete mastery of the game demand significant extent of puzzle solving and patience. A Sudoku brainteaser can also be made so intricate that even a genius would have a hard time finishing it.
Contrary to what many people suppose when they first see a Sudoku riddle, this brain-teasing exercise doesn’t require exceptionally high understanding of math. It is more a matter of reasoning and the numbers could, in fact, be swapped with any other symbol.
What sudoku has in common with throwing darts:
It is interesting how some memories seem to have happened just yesterday, while others fade away with time.
I can tell a story when I was a kid and we spent the holidays at our cottage in the archipelago. One day my sibling and I found an old darts game – not like the showy ones they use in real dart competitions, but more of a sturdy “outdoors” (or whatnot the term is) type of dartboard with digits from one on the outside to ten in the bulls eye, and somewhat hefty and robust darts.
Neither of us where very good at lobbing darts, so it was a good plan we hung the dart target on the outside wall of an old shed. After a while of practising, I was able to to get quite a good score – 42 with five darts.
Luck had much to do with it of course, but now something very interesting happened. My sister would probably not quit before she had gotten at least the same score as me!
I think she hacked away at that dart board for a pair of hours without interruption, and had she been a individual in a comic she could certainly have been portrayed with a thunder bank of clouds over her head, so to say. It began to get dark before she finally had beaten my record and could allow herself to quit.
It is actually mind-blowing to see such determination.
Although having almost none to do with Sudoku puzzles per se, I think the same kind of driving power is also partially “blamable” for the addictiveness of the Sudoku puzzle.
Most will love a trial, on condition that that there is really a somewhat credible opportunity to arise “conquering” in the end. When tackling a appropriately complex Sudoku enigma a participant can sometimes flow into almost a meditative like state where he or she frankly can’t put down the pen before they have flattened the Sudoku contest. Much in the same way as it played out in that dart game many years ago.
It may of course be due to this fond memory of mine, but I see a clear connection between the simple addiction caused by our dart game and that which a Sudoku puzzle can bring about.
This is all good, as Sudoku is a very low-cost hobby that definitely presents a good work out for the brain.However, should something catch fire nearby or if someone is drowning – by all means put that Sudoku brainteaser aside for just a few minutes.
About the Author: Charles Hawkins did actually not think Sudoku was anything for him. Once he tried it though, he was hooked and he now spreads the word and offers Sudoku hints on his web site
sudokuhints.info
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