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Sudoku
Good evening,
My name is John70t, and I'm a sudoku addict.
It started out as a quirk when a friend said "just try it once". I really didn't like numbers and math and counting or any of those things.
It just seemed silly doing those little puzzles.
I tried it just a little bit. "Ok, I'll just do a few easy puzzles and that's it".
Then it started.
I did the easy puzzles, and even cheated a few times.
Hmmm, all it is is just filling in some squares using set rules.
That is easy.
I'll try some medium puzzles.
The medium puzzles required a new set of rules to learn and remember.
This goes to this, that goes to that. These rules for here, those for there. Forget that box and work on the blank ones on the other side of the puzzle. Run into a roadblock, then the whole puzzle gets solved with one obscure space. Frustration builds up, then there is the release. Pop, pop, pop, pop, the whole thing is complete and finished even before I know what is happening.
Now it all makes sense.
Sudden, dormant skill-sets began erupting in my brain, like volcanoes from a flat ocean landscape filling the entire sky.
It was like completing a painting. Perspective, forms, filling in details. I was Monet.
It was like architecture. Structure, interplay, highlights. I was Frank Lloyd Wright.
It was like reverse programming when solving mistakes. I was a plugged-in Neo "I know C++".
I tried to hide this addiction from friends and family, but it had become obvious.
Even sitting and waiting at stoplights I thought about just doing a number or two.
Just one number.
One little number.
Help. What is the cure?
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