Erin The Great

Remember in the mid to late nineties when the solitaire computer game ruled the world? I do! I used to spend countless hours playing the game and wasting time instead of doing productive things like home work or even work for that matter. It was a simpler time back then.

Do I think solitaire is over rated? Absolutely not! It made even the type ‘A’ personalities learn to waste time, and anything that influential definitely gets a nod in my book.

Meanwhile… While we’ve been busy wasting time with various card games on our computers/ laptops/ cell phones and now iPods there has been an intruder.

The intruders name is ‘Sudoku’. Although it is an intruder, I never said it was an un-welcome intruder. Instead of wasting time on hundreds of different games, you can waste hours on ONE puzzle. How genius of a single puzzle, drawing you in and making you not only concentrate, but extremely anxious to get ‘that next number’.

One of the best parts of this game is there are different difficulties of the Sudoku puzzle , ranging from easy and moderate through hard and very hard up to fiendish and evil. The only thing better then this is the ‘Samurai Sudoku’ puzzle. It’s glorious but not for the amateur or weak hearted.

Do I think that Sudoku is over rated? As me again in a few years and we’ll see if it had proven itself worthy against the test of time. As for right now I believe this puzzle to be of heroic worship.