Friday, April 14, 2006

Train you brain in minutes a day!

After decades of exercising your thumbs, Nintendo moves to your mind. Brain Age presents quick mental activities that help keep your DS brain in shape. Activities include quickly solving simple math problems, drawing pictures on the Touch Screen, solving sudoku, the number puzzle game and many more.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Day 1: Intermediate level puzzles

Sudoku
Level : Intermediate

Kakuro

Level : Intermediate

meet Kakuro - sudoku's big brother

karuro aka Cross-Sums, is yet another number game from japan, very difficult but highly addictive. It looks like a typical crossword puzzle with numbers in place of alphabets.


just like a crossword puzzle kakuro have white empty squares which needs to be filled and black squares with number which are called "clues".

Lets take a smaller sub-section on our original puzzle

  • take bottom horizontal row. Here the "clue" is number 9, notice that number 9 is written on top half of the black box which means the clue is for horizontal white boxes.
  • similarly number 3 on top row is in lower half of the black square which tells us that the clue is for vertical squares.
  • clue number 9 tells us to find a combination which adds up to 9(hence the name "cross-sum"). possible combinations are - 1+8, 2+7, 3+6 and 4+5.
  • for clue no 3(for vertical white boxes) we have only combination - 1+2.
  • rest of the arrangement is similar to sudoku

    There is only one rule: You can't put two or more duplicate numbers for a single clue(similar to sudoku).

    well that's it! take out your pencils and jump right into it!

Sudoku puzzles

This japanese number game, sudoku has taken the world by storm.
Everyone is solving it, on their newspapers, computers, mobiles and even on hill tops!!

What? you don't believe me?
check this out!!


This is my blog and I am going to post one sudoku and one kakuro for everyone's consumption.
Feel free to post ur comments!!