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Crossword Puzzles or Sudoku?
Prefer crosswords, have never done sudoku 13%  13%  [ 4 ]
Prefer crosswords over sudoku 27%  27%  [ 8 ]
Prefer sudoku, have never done crosswords 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Prefer sudoku over crosswords 33%  33%  [ 10 ]
Like both equally 13%  13%  [ 4 ]
Abstain 13%  13%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 30

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13 Jul 2012, 11:46 am

Word puzzles or logic puzzles?

I was just wondering about people's preferences. The operative word is preference, if you like both but one more than the other, both equally, or have only ever done one of the two there are options for that.


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13 Jul 2012, 12:13 pm

Definitely a sudoku fanatic. For the record, both require a little logic :P



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13 Jul 2012, 4:35 pm

Crosswords. Me and numbers are not friends.


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13 Jul 2012, 4:43 pm

Crosswords. I used to do sudoku. I was obsessed, but then I found a way to solve almost all of them, and got bored.



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13 Jul 2012, 4:49 pm

I don't do any of those two.


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13 Jul 2012, 9:00 pm

I like both of them.



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13 Jul 2012, 9:04 pm

Solving and creating cryptic clues is one of my favourite pastimes.

Sudoku is boring. It would be easy to write an algorithm which would solve any solvable Sudoku puzzle in a finite number of steps.

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13 Jul 2012, 9:58 pm

I prefer crosswords more, although I have been trying Suduko more recently and I am enjoying that as well. I really like crosswords well and have become pretty good at them so now certain crossword clues come pretty naturally. Certain crosswords can really be a challenge though and even a crossword dictionary does not always help. I do love to learn more vocabulary and would like to be a word smith. I also like foreign languages really well.


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21 Nov 2016, 4:48 pm

I have just realised that I am utterly abysmal at crosswords. Is this some form of intellectual retardation? I surmise that most children would be better at crosswords than me.


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21 Nov 2016, 5:11 pm

I've never done sudoku. Crosswords are hard.


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21 Nov 2016, 6:01 pm

I prefer crosswords to sudoku, and I prefer word search and word fit to crosswords.
Strangely i love the game Utopia, despite setting up the skyscrapers sudoku style.


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21 Nov 2016, 7:11 pm

Word searches.


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21 Nov 2016, 8:12 pm

Crossword puzzles. I have a huge book of them.


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21 Nov 2016, 8:55 pm

Definitely crosswords. I have never been able to do sudoku.


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22 Nov 2016, 1:46 am

Like the Washington Post Sunday supplement crossword puzzle. Love the use of puns in clues. Much more colorful than sudoku.



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23 Nov 2016, 12:05 pm

I enjoy doing the crossword, I wont lie.

The trouble with me is I can get quite obsessive and if I start doing a sudoku then nothing else will get done until the puzzle is finished.

However with a crossword I find it easy to put down and then go back to.

Word searches are ok but they're a bit boring.


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