When Sudoku has trained you to spot logical contradictions and cryptics have taught you to see through evasions and deceptive phrasing, you are ready for Step Three.—the game of “Spin.” The object of this game is to read a MSM article or column and separate the truth from what the writer is trying to make you believe.
"After a few weeks of Sudoku have purified and organized you thinking, go on to Step Two, the cryptic crosswords that so delight the British, but are most masterfully exemplified by American compilers such as Cox and Rathvon.
American compilers must take second place to the British. The anonymous London Times compilers, and Araucaria at the Guardian, are the ones to beat.
Chess is still King when it comes to logical puzzles but Sudoku is fun and occupies quite a bit of my spare time.
The left is antilogic....
I got hooked on Sudoku 2 months ago. It is in two papers that come to the house. They go from easy to hard. The very hard cannot be solved by logic, but at some point you have to guess the next step. Then they started Samurai Sudocku with 5 interconnected grids. The first one was medium hard and took me 4 1/2 hours, then they made them harder and I was wasting all day Sunday on them. I realized I was really getting addicted to them.
I enjoy the flow feeling on the easy to medium hard ones. I can also see where my brain is processing somewhat differently. However, I now cut a little piece of the hard ones out and burn them. I am trying to renovate a house, enough with addiction.