Sudoku is Absurdly Addictive

      

One part of the answer has definitely to be sheer simplicity of the enigma. The rules of Sudoku are so easy to absorb that anyone can start playing almost at once.Yet full mastery of the game call for significant quantity of playing and patience. A Sudoku puzzle can also be made so hard that even a genius could have a hard time finishing it.

Contrary to what many might imagine when they originally see a Sudoku brainteaser, this brain-teasing exercise doesn't require markedly high understanding of math. It is more a matter of judgment and the digits could, in fact, be replaced with any other symbol.

When I lost a darts game-

Most people have fond memories from their childhood, a time where we often manage to enjoy the simple things in life on a whole other level.

I have a memory of when I was a kid and we spent the summer months at our cottage in the country. One day my sibling and I found an old darts game - not like the elaborate ones they use in official dart competitions, but more of a sturdy "outdoors" (or whatever the correct term is) type of dartboard with numeral characters from one on the outside to ten in the bulls eye, and rather weighty and robust darts.

Neither of us where very good at lobbing darts, so it was a good plan we hung the dart target on the outside wall of an old shed. After a while however, I was able to to get quite a good score - 42 with five darts.

Luck had much to do with it of course, but now something very interesting happened. My sister would not quit before she had gotten at least the same score as me!

I think she chopped away at that dart board for a pair of hours straight, and had she been a character in a comic she would probably surely have been portrayed with a thunder mist over her head, so to say. It began to get dark before she finally had beaten my record and could allow herself to quit.

It is very amazing to see such determination.

Although having very little to do with Sudoku puzzles per se, I think the same kind of driving force is also "blamable" for the addictiveness of the Sudoku enigma.

Most would love a competitive encounter, provided that there is actually a to some extent reasonable chance to arise "triumphant" in the end. When tackling a fittingly demanding Sudoku riddle a player can sometimes go into almost a meditative like state where he or she basically can't put down the pen before they have crushed the Sudoku trial. Much in the same way as it developed in that dart game many years ago.

One might perhaps argue that my sister has always been a very ambitious type with anything she has ever done, but I still think the point made is valid.

This is all good, as Sudoku is a very economical hobby that definitely bestows a good work out for the brain.However, in the event something catch fire in the kitchen or if someone is drowning - by all means put that Sudoku mystery aside for just a few hours.

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