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Sudoku or Crossword? Both? Neither?

Some other brain puzzle?

BufftonBeotch 8 Aug 8
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I prefer crosswords.

Do you prefer a theme or not?

I prefer not having a theme.

I also like logic puzzles.

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Scrabble

Love it! I can't get anyone to play with me anymore, though. lol

@tallgreentech Yeah. But not as satisfying as those smooth tile in hand.
And actual dumb. I was challenged on ennui once.

Scrabble with assumed large vocabulary people would be interesting

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I love crosswords, jigsaw puzzles and trivia!

I'd probably keep an active jigsaw puzzle going in my home...but I have a cat that's an asshole.

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I am a freak for word searches. I'll even steal the kids menu from my daughter to do them!

Love it. With the cheap crappy crayon?

@BufftonBeotch I've become a crayon conasseiur.

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Sudoku!

It is quicker. At least for me.

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Soduku!

I like both. But a Sudoko is a quick stress reliever for me.

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Sudoku!!! I keeps my brain challenged and I'm pretty good at it so it's an easy satisfaction, especially when I'm stressed or dwelling on something I can't fix.

Yes!

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Life is the only puzzle I spare thinking time for, puzzling for puzzlings sake I find real boring.

That's fine.

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Crosswords for me! I also try to catch the Sunday puzzle on NPR on Sunday mornings.

Ohub Level 7 Aug 9, 2018

I love the NPR quiz shows when I can catch them, And "This American Life" is a favorite. The archive is online now.

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I'll have to check that out.

@BufftonBeotch it’s cool

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I have and always will play chess. But my aggressiveness has mellowed and that is necessary for winning. My rating reflects as much. But just cause I am an old lion doesn't mean if you put your hand in my mouth I won't bite it off!

I have a friend that teaches chess to kids and takes them to tournaments.

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Crosswords and solitaire. Great for whiling the way on some long ferry crossings.

Solitaire is much more transportable on a computer screen. Many more varieties as well.
How about Mahjong?

@BufftonBeotch Don't know that one.

@JackPedigo It is a fairly ancient Chinese game using tiles that have to be removed in pairs. The pairs you remove have to have at least one long edge free.
No, I don't carry around actual tiles. There are numerous varieties online.

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I used to be a fiend for math puzzles. I don't have the focus for it anymore.

What would be an example of this?

@BufftonBeotch My favorites were long division problems with lots of missing digits throughout, requiring a lot of reverse math, context clues, and logic. Found a bunch of them in an old Games magazine in the 80s.

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I would do soduku when I had to be somewhere killing time. That doesn't happen very often. Word jumbles the same way. Not so much anymore, too busy.

I don't do them nearly as much as I used to either.

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For whatever reason, that stuff never caught my attention......

And that's....OK.

@BufftonBeotch Yeah, I guess...... Now, if I may...Which one do you like and why are you asking?

@IamNobody Sodoku can be done fairly quickly, so for a quick diversion that would be what I would choose.
But it is not something that is going to increase my math skills. Except for recognizing certain patterns for solving Sudoku.
Crosswords, though more time consuming. do have the benefit of increasing ones vocabulary.

@BufftonBeotch ahhh...ok, thanks !!

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Sudoku !

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Crossword puzzles and contract bridge are my brain games of choice.

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I like jigsaw puzzles, but between sudoku and crossword...Sudoku.

Have you done any of those puzzles where there is a mystery to solve in the picture?

@BufftonBeotch No, I don't believe I have. In fact, I'm not quite sure what you are talking about.

@joeymf86 There is a a murder/theft/ whatever short paragraph included in the book.
When the puzzle is solved here are images that will solve the mystery if you spot them.

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Cryptic crosswords. Love the wordplay.

Oh yeah. Those are brutal.

They can be, but they're the most rewarding to me. So many of the clues are simply beautiful. And the "variety" cryptics, where extra gimmicks abound, are often works of art.

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Crosswords and word searches

There are places online where you can make your own word search puzzles for a group activity or party. You can probably adjust the level of difficulty, I'd imagine. Save the backwards diagonals for the experts.

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Any/all of them.

Have you played with those Logic Problems?

@BufftonBeotch Every day.

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Crossword.

lol. You know what you like.

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Crosswords... bu then I never tried sudoku....

Give it a shot. There are many online.

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I like both. I also play WWF and other games on FB.

Both sides of the brain.

@BufftonBeotch Really? Makes sense...I am an accountant but I also do a lot of art...both sides of the brain there as well

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I love crossword puzzles. Never got into Suduko. I like puzzle type games on my phone like Two Dots.

OK. What is Two Dots?

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Definitely crosswords for me, I like lateral thinking games too.

Will Shortz?

@BufftonBeotch

Hi..no that's the New York Times guy.

Crosshairs the Irish Times guy..he is dead now..but knowing he was dying he constructed a huge store of them..so that his legacy would continue..he was a cruel but wonderful genius..??

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