SUDOKU HIGHS AND LOWS — by Steve Nadis
For awhile I thought I was losing my edge. I was making too many mistakes in sudoku puzzles. Occasionally I can fix them but usually I give up. So I wasn’t finishing a lot of the daily puzzles, even relatively easy ones, due to carelessness or sloppiness or a combination of the two (if they are in fact different). But last night, everything changed. I took on the Globe Magazine puzzle which, on the face of it, looked quite difficult–only 22 of 91 boxes were filled and I’ve never completed a puzzle with fewer filled boxes though there are other measures of difficulty as well. I started it late and didn’t have time to finish. Normally I don’t carry a puzzle over from one day to the next owing to my chronic Sudoku backup problem but this time I did. And tonight during Nightline, while Barack Obama toured Iran and was asked to concede that he was wrong about the surge, I had a surge of my own and knocked off the Globe Magazine puzzle. After this triumph, I’ve stopped worrying about my IQ. Or rather I’m now worrying that it might be too high.
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