{"id":945,"date":"2007-01-08T22:01:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=945"},"modified":"2007-01-08T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:01:27","slug":"on-sudoku-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"On Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"

I own a Nintendo DS, the limited edition red DS system they released with Mario Kart DS<\/i>. I love my DS. I love the color, that solid, vibrant red. It looks classy, not girlie or gay as Marc Klein called it at last year’s Shore Leave<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It’s funny. I may have scoffed at the idea of the DS before its release (and I did), and I may have wondered why anyone<\/i> would want what’s basically a souped up GameBoy with a touchscreen, but now I think it’s a nifty piece of engineering. Moreover, for all the time I’ve spent around video games I spend shockingly little time playing<\/i> video games, except for my DS. I won’t say I have a great<\/i> DS library, because I don’t. But what I do<\/i> have, I like.<\/p>\n

Like Sudoku.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure when I noticed Sudoku puzzles in the newspaper. I’m not sure when I noticed books of sudoku puzzles in the bookstores. I do remember that I always thought sudoku was weird<\/i>. What’s the appeal? Fill in the boxes with numbers? Huh? What?<\/p>\n

Over the summer Nintendo released a sudoku game for the DS. It was inexpensive–just twenty dollars–so I had to investigate.<\/p>\n

As I’d never even thought about attempting a sudoku puzzle in the newspaper I had no idea how to play. Fortunately the game came to my rescue, and it took me through a brief tutorial. Figure out what the number is, write it on the screen. Simple. The basics down, I went to town. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And I discovered that I was very good at sudoku. Decently fast, and very accurate. I can’t solve a Rubik’s Cube, but sudoku puzzles are nothing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It’s what I play, like every day. Sudoku on my Nintendo DS. Sometimes one puzzle. Sometimes three or four. Keeps the brain sharp, so they tell me. No mad cow disease here.<\/p>\n

I know there are other games I could play on my DS. But I’m happy with sudoku. I wonder if sudoku is happy with me…. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I own a Nintendo DS, the limited edition red DS system they released with Mario Kart DS. I love my DS. I love the color, that solid, vibrant red. It looks classy, not girlie or gay as Marc Klein called it at last year’s Shore Leave. It’s funny. I may have scoffed at the ideaContinue reading “On Sudoku”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[651,4091],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-sudoku","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}