(Untitled)

[dherblay]

I'll probably be alone in considering this the most important article of the day.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003]

I shall be sticking to crosswords. Sudoku seems to me to belong with other Taylorist pursuits like American football; entirely lacking in charm.

[dherblay]

I find that there needs to be some requirement of inductive reasoning to keep me interested in a sudoku; most straight sudoku puzzles, and just about all newspaper sudokus, are solved through deduction alone, so I've moved on to obscure variants such as "Greater-Than-Killer Sudoku" and the like. Of course, once I get the trick of a variant knocked, it becomes as dull as the original.

[atpolittlebit]

I've been having more fun with the kakuro puzzles.

[randomways]

To be fair, some of the harder "straight" sudoku puzzles have a point where they become more chess-like -- you have to think two or three or four moves ahead because there's no place that you can definitely put a given number.

[dherblay]

When you're into puzzles like the atrocious ones here that require techniques with names like X-Wing or Swordfish, it's probably best to just pull back.

[randomways]

I...I feel curiously drawn to any puzzle entitled "Pernicious." Perhaps that says way too much about my upbringing.