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Sudoku Journal

Geneva Tolliferreo's picture

Wednesday when we first began Sudoku I was fine with it, because I have limited previous experience with this game.  The challenge for me during the game I was playing came when I realized several of the cells I completed were incorrect.  It would have been helpful for me to have known ahead of time that several of my cell entries were incorrect; especially since I was playing on the entry level.

I did choose to clear that game with the intent to start again, but when I realized it was close to time to wrap up for the day, I then choose not to start again, anticipating rushing through the process would probably be what frustrated me.

The brain drain for me in our group today yielded these 3 words:  fun, learning, challenge.  Our group correctly completely our game in approximately 10 minutes, with Shoshana making cell entries and checking as we went along.  The checking took most of the wondering out of our process.  Each of the several times she checked, we were correct.  We quickly corrected errors we identified, BEFORE we checked.  Yea group!  We all realized Shoshana preferred to complete the cells by blocks.  However, when one of us realized a entry in another, Shoshana willing made the entry with less than a moment of hesitation.