As I said, we were an hour and a half late arriving at Lamy Wednesday afternoon. Usually when we get to the end of the trip I’m looking forward to getting there and going home. Not this time. There was a gentle drizzle outside, which was peaceful and somehow timeless, and we had a toy to play with inside.
The toy was an iPad Sudoku app. On the way to Chicago Andy had been working on a hard Sudoku, and uncharacteristically got stuck. He suggested when we could go online we should put it into a solver that we knew about. So we tried on my iPad when we had a WiFi connection at Kaitlin’s, but it was fussy and not much help.
So I Googled “sudoku solvers” and found a list of possible apps. Some of them just gave the final answer, which was useless, but Sudoku Joy was great. It gave hints, even for a complicated puzzle like Andy’s. So on the way home we used it for hints whenever he got stuck, and I explored the app itself. It is extremely well-designed and my hat goes off to the developer. It’s designed not only for people like Andy, but it has graduated lessons for people who have never played Sudoku before.
Andy doesn’t like using iPads and said he wanted a computer version when he got home so he didn’t need to bother me, and the developer even had one of those. We downloaded it Wednesday evening. It warms my heart that some people are still offering high quality products at a reasonable price ($2.99 for the computer version). No greediness here. Yay, Jason Linhart!
October 9, 2015
I like to do sudokus while I’m listening to music. I’ve been doing sudokus for years but I still get stuck on the harder ones. An app like that would be quite handy. And like Andy, I don’t like using an iPad. It never does what I want it to do and I always end up using the PC instead. Perhaps it just doesn’t like me.
Andy likes it because it teaches him new things, not just helps him solve the puzzle.
Thanks for the tip. I don’t do much of sudoku because I don’t get enough time after I solve my daily quota of crossword puzzles but when I do, and get stuck sometimes, this should come in handy.
Yes.
That is indeed nice that the price is so reasonable.
Sounds like you both enjoyed your “toy”!
🙂
Now me, I never do puzzles, ever.
If I’m stuck somewhere I’d rather doodle.
😀 😀 😀
and for some reason, I don’t care for board games either.
Maybe because I’m not too competitive?
But it’s cool that there is so much to do on-line!
You are clearly an artist, and I’m not!
I have a couple of things I like to do daily, one is the ‘quiz’ on the main newspaper online – it keeps my brain cells working, I love it when I don’t really know the correct multi-letter AND get my guess right. I also play a few other things, sometimes with others, sometimes with just me and the computer…
I think of puzzles as mini vacations. They’re absorbing and take us away from our everyday life for a bit.