Lifestyle: sudoku, part 2

Self-tutoring about games people play: the tutor mentions sudoku.

I learned how to work sudoku puzzles last summer, but put them away in September, until yesterday. I was in for an awakening.

Sudoku is a logic game, but what makes one efficient at it is how they organize the information. I even recalled this idea, yesterday, but not the best ways to stay organized; therefore, the puzzle took me a woefully long time to complete. I got comments from others telling me so:)

As I surveyed the puzzle, looking to build new information from recent progress, I would notice mistaken assumptions I’d made earlier. The mindset hadn’t yet returned, of how to organize the information and synthesize new from it. Knowing where to look for weaknesses needed practice, as well.

Sudoku is one of those great activities that causes one to shift back and forth between narrow focus on one part of the puzzle vs wide focus of the whole thing. When to make such shifts, and what to look for afterwards, are secrets known to those reclusive, skilled sudoku practitioners who find it so obvious what the next step should be.