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Funny, years ago, someone tried to get me to try sudoku. I think they described it in a way that wasn't clear. I swear I thought they told me multiplication or addition or something. I'm a numbers/math guy, but it sounded like a pain in the arse, so I gave it a pass. I wasn't interested enough to ask for clarification or anything.

Recently, my wife tried it, and she hates math/numbers, but was enjoying it. She quickly described it to me, not even really trying to explain it, and I thought "that's not what I remember from before." I checked out the instructions online and found an online play that was pretty good. I played several games, then I went to "expert." It was quite a bit harder than "easy" but still not that hard. It just requires logic. I've played on my computer, on my phone and on paper. When it's expert level, I prefer paper and pencil.

I need to get a book of puzzles so I don't do all of the puzzles in my wife's book.

I've looked up some tactics for helping to solve. There are some interesting things out there, but most of the time you don't need anything tricky or advanced, you just need to be methodical.