NOTE – I am finishing up a trip to Austria with a bunch of my family right now. I am working on postings for that.
While on this trip I have had some free time, and the hotel we were at had some puzzles to work on and one was a couple of Sudoku. If you don’t know what this it is a 9 by 9 square and each row and column can only have one digit from 1-9 in it, and each 3 by 3 square also can only have one occurrence of 1-9. They have been around for a while, but I have never really tried doing them. But I had some down time due to rain and pause time between activities and so I thought I would give them a try.
Well, it didn’t go well. I spent hours on them, yes hours, and I didn’t get either of them done while at the resort we were at. Every theme I thought I was getting close to solving one I would realize I had made an earlier mistake that I had missed or a box towards the end would need a number in that that conflicted with a box that I had filled in toward the beginning and that would require basically starting over. It was so frustrating, and things like this cause me to focus and get stubborn about wanting to solve. I keep telling myself that I should be able to do this. I am a smart person and I like puzzles.
But boy did these wear on me. I don’t know why I have so much trouble with them. I wonder if it is similar to a Rubik’s cube? I have never been very good at those either. I can solve a Rubik’s cube but I can’t do it very quickly.
So, something that I never want is a book of sudoku puzzles. That would just be cruel.
Like I said I am on my way home from a trip to Europe and this is just a quick ramble about how I am no good a Sudoku puzzles.
I hope you are having a lovely day.