<p>I am trying my best, but it is just not clicking in my brain. How do you play this “fun” game? :(</p>
<p>sudoku. Husband and I do it every day–except Sunday–as mealtime entertainment. :)</p>
<p>sorry, just realized you asked how to PLAY it, not spell it. Oops. It is a matter of getting one of each number, 1-9, in each square and each row. a matter of logic… So each horizontal row must have one of each number; each vertical row must have one of each, and each separate square likewise. </p>
<p>Warning. It may be addictive.</p>
<p>I’ve never played either. But there’s got to be more to it than just putting one of each number in each square, or you could just randomly write them in and be done with it. So…do they have to add up to something in each row? Or multiply? Or what?</p>
<p>3bm103, I think that’s my problem. I start focusing in on the block, and forget about the row, and then if I put in a number, is it really the right number? I have the game on my cell phone, and it will let me correct my error, (will in fact let me know I made an error), but what if I am trying to play the game in a book? There’s no error message then. :(</p>
<p>Get a book that has different levels, start with the easy and once you get tired of those and they become too ‘easy’ then move onto the medium, etc. That was the easiest way for me to learn. I play all the time when we are watching TV.</p>
<p>3bm, nope the don’t have to add up to anything. You can’t repeat the numbers in a row, column or box. I’ve never gotten into, but S1 had a serious sudoku jones for a while. There are sudoku websites with various levels. Try one of those.</p>
<p>I LOVE Sudoku. I am an addict. I play Super Sudoku online every day, keep a book in the car for waiting (doctor’s appts, etc), and a book on the lamp table that I do when watching TV.</p>
<p>The goal is to get the numbers 1 through 9 in every row, every column, and every box (3x3). No number can be repeated; each number must be used.</p>
<p>This website lets you choose the level of difficulty. It also lets you check “how am I doing” and fix errors.
[Web</a> Sudoku - Billions of Free Sudoku Puzzles to Play Online](<a href=“http://www.websudoku.com/]Web”>http://www.websudoku.com/)</p>
<p>This website has a “gentle” Sudoku on Mondays and gets harder through the week.
[Sudoku</a> Online : Sudoku of the Day](<a href=“http://www.sudoku.org.uk/Daily.asp]Sudoku”>sudoku online.)</p>
<p>Some tips:</p>
<p>Do not guess. </p>
<p>First, fill in the obvious. If there are already 8 numbers in a particular row, column, or box, then there is only one digit that can possibly go in the remaining square. If there are two empty boxes, then there are only two numbers that can go in each. And so on.</p>
<p>Second, you can look at the three rows or columns that make up a set of 3 adjoining boxes. For example, say you are looking at the 3 boxes across the top of the game. Those three boxes are made up of 3 rows. If the box on the left has a “1” in the top row, and the box in the middle has a “1” on the bottom row, then the box on the right will have to have a “1” in the middle row - because each row MUST have a “1”, and each box MUST have a “1” and this is the only place to satisfy both.</p>
<p>Use a sharp pencil, and pencil in, in tiny print, every possible number for any square. If the number appears anywhere else in the row, column, or 3x3 box that the square is in, that number is eliminated from that square.</p>
<p>As you get used to it, you will discover which strategies work best.
It really is pretty easy - just hard to explain in words!</p>
<p>Ah, Binx, I knew there were many reasons I like you . . . Here’s another one!! Logic, logic, logic!!</p>
<p>I love Sudoku, too. You will find that you will learn quickly as you play. At this point, I have a hard time finding puzzles that are difficult enough to be interesting.</p>
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<p>If you can do the very hard ones there, I bow down to your superior logic and want to know your secret strategies! I’m onlyl up to “medium”</p>
<p>NYMomof2 - this is my daily fix:
[Welcome</a> to Killer Sudoku Online](<a href=“http://www.killersudokuonline.com/index.html]Welcome”>Welcome to Killer Sudoku Online)
Along with the regular rules, they add a couple more. Scroll down for some fun variations.</p>
<p>Here’s another site that my H loves. Me, I’d rather read.
[BrainBashers</a> : Daily Sudoku](<a href=“http://www.brainbashers.com/sudoku.asp]BrainBashers”>BrainBashers - Daily Sudoku)</p>
<p>He says that the super hard are harder than the evil on Web Sudoku.</p>
<p>dragonmom, I did the very hard one you linked to. Took me a few tries, though. That site doesn’t seem to have a way to “pencil in” numbers, so I had to use paper. Is there something I’m not seeing?</p>
<p>VeryHappy - thanks! 
I do love logic puzzles of all types. I really like the word problems down the left side of this page. Fortunately, they only add two per month or I’d never get anything done.
[Puzzles.COM</a> - Logic Problems](<a href=“Photo Puzzles and Custom Puzzle | Ravensburger”>Photo Puzzles and Custom Puzzle | Ravensburger)</p>
<p>Thanks, guys, this is all I need. An easy way to find more puzzles!</p>
<p>I will try those sites when I get a chance. I’m afraid I’ll like them a little too much.</p>
<p>dragonmom, I am not really good. It’s just that most of the books you can buy don’t have really hard puzzles.</p>
<p>I, too, tend toward addiction.
As for penciling in, I prefer the dot method. Put a dot in the upper left corner for 1, the upper right corner for 3, top row in the center is 2, center of the left edge is 4, center of right edge is 6, 5 is dead center, 7, 8, 9 are dots along the bottom edge.</p>
<p>binx, I took a look at the Killer Sudoku site - you must be kidding! Those are impossible…</p>
<p>
Perhaps only that you are much better at it than I am! Next time, I’ll use a pencil and see if that helps. I was going on the theory that just remembering would be a good brain stretch as I get older. (Except D1 could whip me at “Memory” when she was 4… and I wasn’t “getting older” then.)
INteresting to think about - the tie between visual/pattern recognition/geographic location intelligence. I have one kid with NO sense of geographic location but who is great at music and read extremely early. ANother who could tell you at 4 if you missed a turn on the way to the mall. What’s the relation between a mental map of your physical surroundings and a mental map of a grid on paper… OK, off topic. Back to Sudoku.</p>
<p>I’m up to “demanding” but now I can’t finish the dang puzzles! S says it’s “cheating” to write the possible numbers in the corners. I told him to get his own book and leave me alone!</p>
<p>Count me in as another addict. S#3 would go online after dinner and print out 2 copies of the same sudoku puzzle. He and I would then race to the finish. It’s one of the things I miss most now that he has started his freshman year. We both also love jigsaw puzzles and I was thinking of sending him one that he can start in the common room on his floor so other kids can join in.</p>
<p>I found a book of Sudoku this summer in Europe that I love. It’s 4 or 5 regular Sudoku configured with overlapping edges in various cross-shaped forms. Love 'em. Has anyone seen those on-line? I bought 2 copies of the book and photocopied one so I can redo them over and over.</p>