Folks, all you need to solve Soduku Puzzles quickly is an audience.
Take the section of the daily paper to the soccer game, airport queue line, family gathering, or anywhere someone might notice that you are working on a Sudoku grid.
Fill numbers into the grid at random, in ink, stopping occasionally to scratch your head or take a sip of something.
Finish filling in the grid quickly, lean back, and exhale. Then tear out the grid from the paper, fold it, and put it in your pocket. If anyone was looking over your shoulder, or otherwise checking you out, exclaim that you just broke your own record, and ask them to check it.
Then pull out the puzzle grid from YESTERDAY’S PAPER from the same pocket. (Be sure you’ve already filled in the published solution from TODAY’S PAPER in the same ink color to pull this off.)
Believe me, it’s more fun than the frustration of actually doing one, and you’ll regain the respect and admiration of friends, relatives and colleagues that you lost at last year’s Christmas Party.
(Photo of Sudoku TP from here.)
