Filling in numbers
Every morning, after rousing myself with sound effects King Kong would run from in terror, I sit down to breakfast with the local Murdoch tabloid, and the fresh wit, wisdom and insight into world affairs offered by its Su Doku puzzle. And get distinctly cranky if interrupted before I've either got the thing done or given up in frustration.
Observing this, my doting parental units got me a Su Doku board game (seriously) for Christmas. I had a sneaking suspicion it was a quick and cheap commercialisation of the trend and an unintentional gag gift, and so it remained in the shrinkwrap until this afternoon. Flipping through the rulebook for multi-player games confirmed my suspicions - not to mention actually playing through a puzzle with athe_fionavar and finding that the game's Scrabblesque tiles come in a startling variety of thicknesses and with one number seven too many. Thus I've spent perfectly good fic-writing time today coming up with new rules that might actually challenge someone who's actually finished a puzzle without peeking before (mostly by ripping off Scrabble, but hey, steal from the best...).
So, now, plans: 1) Try and get in the daily quota of writing I promised myself I'd try and get done and still go to bed early enough to be awake for my appointment at uni tomorrow and 2) Try and find volunteers to test the game out on with...
Observing this, my doting parental units got me a Su Doku board game (seriously) for Christmas. I had a sneaking suspicion it was a quick and cheap commercialisation of the trend and an unintentional gag gift, and so it remained in the shrinkwrap until this afternoon. Flipping through the rulebook for multi-player games confirmed my suspicions - not to mention actually playing through a puzzle with athe_fionavar and finding that the game's Scrabblesque tiles come in a startling variety of thicknesses and with one number seven too many. Thus I've spent perfectly good fic-writing time today coming up with new rules that might actually challenge someone who's actually finished a puzzle without peeking before (mostly by ripping off Scrabble, but hey, steal from the best...).
So, now, plans: 1) Try and get in the daily quota of writing I promised myself I'd try and get done and still go to bed early enough to be awake for my appointment at uni tomorrow and 2) Try and find volunteers to test the game out on with...