Sudoku

This morning, as I pondered what fun and exciting things to procrastinate with (WoW, BloodRayne, dancing around in my underwear while singing 80s songs…), I found myself searching the Internets for free Sudoku puzzles. I’d been wanting to try my hand at one for a while now, since they are everywhere, taunting me, yelling, “You can’t do me!” every time I pass them at the bookstores. I’ve bitchslapped quite a few of them, but never got around to actually solving one.

This morning, I decided it was time. I was armed and ready with the necessary implements of intellectual destruction: a pencil and coffee.

I found a great site with free puzzles and printed out the first one on the page. I then spent a good while muttering to myself. Aloud.

Can’t be 2 … can’t be 3 … can’t be 4 …
…. could be 8 … can’t be 9 …

Until finally.

Finally.

All the squares were filled.

I popped them into the online version, and hit “How am I doing?” and lo and behold, it said, “Congratulations! You solved the Sudoku in 59 minutes, 54 seconds!” I thought, “I ROCK! I am a MASTERMIND!”

Then, all cocky and full of myself, I clicked on, “How good is my time?”

And a graph shattered my ego.

Average time: 7 minutes, 4 seconds

WTF?!

7 minutes??

GAH.

Just for that, I’m gonna try one in level “Evil”, and see what happens.

*mumbles*

Go play at Web Sudoku.