Don't really know where to put this, but they appear in newspapers, so media it is.

Is anyone else totally addicted to these things? If you have no idea what I'm on about, look here

On the bus is the only time I get for these!!

Highly addictive too!

-m0r

i love them. sometimes i can't do the easy one but for some reason the intermediate and advanced ones are easier for me (not bragging)

have you tried the samurai ones in the times? they are solid.

i am really rubbish at them. i don't understand why.

I'm slightly worried about my passion for them...

Oh, so that's what it is. I thought they were some kind of new invention, but I've been doing them for years and consistently sucking at them.

I'm completley hooked on tsunami and enigma puzzles. I'll see if I can find anything about them.

Edit That was surprisingly easy to find clicky

I've done a couple but they hold about as much appeal to me as crosswords. As in loads while I'm doing one and then none for weeks afterwards.

I haven't tried any, they seem too Vordermenesque for my liking.

I've just got into doing Suduko. Was doing a couple earlier...failed abysmally at both! I came close on Saturday night to actually completing one. I filled in all the boxes but then noticed one row had an extra 6 and another had no No.8 so that put out every other row and box. Dammit!

Wife Of Rolex

Christ i've never even heard of these!

I did used to be addicted to Cross-reference puzzles and Q-brutes, though.

Say what?

It's not maths, it's logic. The only mathematical ability required is to be able to count to 9.

Oooh, I'm trying one and I'm beginning to see the attraction of these.

edit: shit, I copied the daily sudoku from that website onto paper and got nowhere for about half an hour, only to realise I'd missed out five of the numbers.

I've only done two so far (in this saturday's paper) but did find them highly addictive, satisfying when complete and ... dare i say it ... fun! will be looking to do more and more now! Although, i do feel that once you've done a certain number the appeal may wear off a bit as its the same approach each time and they may become a bit samey. But that is probably some way off yet!

Saturday afternoons: copy of the Guardian, have a go at the sudoku while listening to Adam and Joe on Xfm (now Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant) = time-wasting bliss.

I've only done a few (half of which I managed to complete, the other half which went tits-up), but they're really satisfying - though I always have to make huge copies of the grid as there really isn't any room in the papers to make all the necessary notations.

How long does it take everyone to do one of the medium or intermediate ones? It usually takes me about an hour and a half - two hours (on and off incl. lapses of concentration etc.). I don't know if that's expected or (as I fear) pathetic.

My girlfriend works for a publisher who's jumping on the Sudoku bandwagon, so she brought a load home to make sure they're completable - their intermediate ones take me about 10-15 minutes to complete, advanced about half an hour, but they're slightly easier than the Guardian one of similar level - their medium one takes me about 20 minutes.

Whoa! I'm shit! Hmmm...that won't stop me from practising though! Better concentrate some more - though I'm sure the more you do, the more you get the nack and can instantly recognise where something should go based on experience...

Yeah, if you do a few one after the other you get into a bit of a rhythm and things start to jump out at you.


Not literally, that would be distracting.

I'm a Sudoku widow.

Stupid boxy numbery tosh.

I am wasting my life with these things. I scared myself with how upset I was when DailySudoku went down today.

Once you know the rules they're pretty easy.

Sounds like a venomous japanese spider

tigerlily's referring to the Times su-doku book I took on holiday last week. Split into easy (about 10 minutes), mild (also about 10 minutes, go figure), difficult (about half an hour) and "fiendish" (either half an hour... or never. I'm convinced that the one's I haven't completed are undoable. I even checked the answers for one of them and I'm right up to what I've got but I'm damned if I can determine a unique solution for what to fill in next)

I bought the first Times book yesterday - only done the four easy ones so far, averaging about five minutes each.

You guys are so cool.



No really. You are. Very. Maybe you could start a little club, with matching t-shirts and everything. Oh . . .

Oh, Col, apparently I have to let you know about my latest t-shirt purchases so that we don't clash later in the year. :hmmm:

all the old guy teachers at my school are obsessed with them and sit around in the staff room at break time having timed competitions apparently

sad really

Should I just thrown out everything in my wardrobe that isn't yellow, to be on the safe side?

Cool, I should just be able to figure it out now. Cheers!

Saw these mentioned in the press somewhere a couple of weeks ago, and didn't really get the gist of it. Now I've actually read through the instructions on that link you posted it makes so much more sense.


Quite. I can sense an addiction forming already...

I am addicted to these puzzles (about 15 mins for mild, 1/2 hour for dificult), but went to work today (in a bookshop) and bloody carol bloody vorderman has released a book on how to do them. I'm losing interest fast, Is there anything she won't spoil?