SuDoku Puzzles Addiction

Many Players Becoming SuDoku Puzzles Addicts

By SkyeDanzer, published Mar 07, 2007
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SuDoku puzzles were first published in 1979 by Dells Magazine in its Numbers Place section of its magazines. It has been in the past decade, SuDoku puzzles have gained popularity. Now SuDoku puzzles can be found for all levels of players. There are competitions and even online events associated with SuDoku puzzles.

Basic Background of SuDoku Puzzles

SuDoku puzzles are Latin number squares. The puzzle looks similar to a crossword puzzle or word search puzzle. The traditional SuDoku puzzles are made up of nine rows and nine columns. Within this grid there are nine mini grids that are outlined in bold for puzzle players. Inside the grids there are starting numbers between 1 and 9. The object of the puzzle is to fill in the 3x3 mini grid columns and rows with the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating a number. One row and one column cannot have any repeating numbers.

SuDoku puzzles range in difficulty from the starting numbers that are given for the puzzles in the mini-grids. Some SuDoku puzzles have multiple answers that will work. Others that are more difficult will have only one correct answer for each blank puzzle cell. The possible combinations of puzzles along with puzzle difficulty levels in virtually endless. SuDoku puzzles can be solved in a few minutes, few hours or a few days depending on the difficulty levels and tools used to solve the puzzles.

Supply for SuDoku Puzzles Addiction

SuDoku puzzles are virtually everywhere that one turns. For someone to become an addict of anything there has to be a supply of the addictive product. For a few cents daily, people can purchase a newspaper to get a dose of SuDoku puzzles. There are many sites on the internet that will daily email subscribers free SuDoku puzzles. Other avenues for SuDoku puzzles include hand held SuDoku puzzles games; desk calendars; travel size books; family game versions of SuDoku puzzles and erasable or re-usable versions of SuDoku puzzles. Having access to the product, SuDoku puzzles, for the addiction is extremely easy.

Denial of Addiction

SuDoku Puzzles Addiction

SuDoku puzzles can be very addicting.

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Takeaways
  • SuDoku puzzles are often used as an escape from relationship problems, social anxiety and depression
  • SuDoku puzzles should never be started by people that have addictive personality tendencies
  • Realize and accept that any behavior to an extreme is not good.
Did You Know?
For someone to become an addict of anything there has to be a supply of the addictive product.
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Nice article. For some reason, Sudoku never really hooked me. That may be a good thing, though. LOL.

Posted on 05/01/2007 at 7:05:00 AM

 
Cute article!

Posted on 04/09/2007 at 12:04:00 AM

 
Great Article

Posted on 04/07/2007 at 7:04:00 PM

 
Interesting. I hadn't thought of a little brain exercise as a tool for an addiction, but I suppose anything can be. Thanks for the article.

Posted on 03/20/2007 at 12:03:00 PM

 
that should be "hardly"

Posted on 03/19/2007 at 7:03:00 PM

 
Love to do them, but hard ever complete them. Great article.

Posted on 03/19/2007 at 7:03:00 PM

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