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I found a new puzzle. It’s called Sudoku and its actually Japanese (written 数独). Its rule is very simple, and looks easy, but it’s not. Well, depends on the puzzle, but challenging ones will take long time to solve. I love it. The Christian Science Monitor has it once a week and The Boston Globe, I just noticed, publish a puzzle everyday in the “Sidekick” section. I was thinking why I like this so much:

• There is only one way to solve it and there is no question about it
• You don’t stumble on the things you don’t know… How many times I’ve tried a Crossword Puzzle, couldn’t solve it, looked at the answer and said “Heck, I don’t know that word!” Well that won’t happen in Sudoku.
• It’s visual. You look for all the 4’s on the grid and highlight that column/row in your mind, and you’ll see the blank box where the number should go!
• Even though it does use numbers, it does NOT require any math skill. Yet when you solve the puzzle, you feel like a Math Genius! I hated math and I was never was good at it, but I feel like with this I am finally beating the numbers!

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