I got a really diabolical book of Ken Ken puzzles the other day. Ken Ken is Sudoku with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division integrated into the puzzle. In previous books the puzzle meister provided which operation to use to select numbers for the boxes. For instance, two adjacent boxes need to achieve fourteen through addition. 9 + 5 or 8 + 6 fills the bill. If however, no operation is specified 7 x 2 also fits. And of course a lot of the operations are more complex and the number of number combinations can be pretty big. Those puzzles kicked my fanny for a couple of days, but eventually my mind trained itself to slow down and make sure it considered all the possible operations to solve a part of the puzzle.
It took a couple of days, but I got there.
Here's a question. Why can't a brain figure out self-editing like that?
All of which says, once again, a worthy critique group is more valuable than pearls.
It took a couple of days, but I got there.
Here's a question. Why can't a brain figure out self-editing like that?
All of which says, once again, a worthy critique group is more valuable than pearls.