I have been playing Sudoko for close to 20 years now. In the blink of an eye, 20 years has elapsed and I still enjoy the stimulating challenge of a diabolical Sudoku, sometimes every day.
First developed in Japan I believe in the mid 80s to help the bored salarymen and women who take the train rides from their hometown into Tokyo or another major city, this game helps develop and maintain cognitive abilities such as :
a) logic
b) deduction
c) good guesswork
d) Charlotte's thread
e) elimination
f) perseverance
In many ways, like today's game which I have just finished, Sudoku reminds me of life. Yours and Mine.
1. In many ways it can and does get complicated
2. You make mistakes and you mess up the game
3. You make mistakes, check back where you went wrong and continue
4. It gets too hard to finish and you abandon it
5. You fly through it
6. You muddle through it with a lot of perseverance, grit and bloody stuborness.
7. It gets messy (like above).
At the end you either 'win' and finish all the 81 squares with all the numbers represented in each box and every single row and column.
Or you lose, when you a) run out of time b) make some error and there are duplicate numbers along the same row or column.
Do play it ; I play this, mental maths, wordle (NY Times) and Spelling Bee. I am now learning
a) Mahjong.
Life's learnings never ever stops.
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