All my addictions are intellectual.
Seth Stevenson is right.
Sudoku.
Simple: 1-9 in every row, column, and 3x3 box.
Maddening: on the trickiest puzzles, you have to guess; there is no other way.
Satisfying: by intuition and deduction, a critical mass of numbers is reached, and they start to fall into place by sheer logic, and the non-pattern emerges.
Today I introduced my younger sister to Sudoku, and she nerdily watched as I solved a "very hard" puzzle from this wonderful site.
I am a Sudoku evangelist, and the world will be worse for it.
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Oh, yeah, those are fun. While I was honing my brain for the LSAT, I picked up several books of puzzles and logic games, and did pages and pages of these things. Way addictive.
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