Having too much time on my hands in the bus is both a good
and bad thing. My bus is frequent enough
that I don't spend a lot of time waiting for it, but I certainly spend a lot of
time on it. I read, do the crossword,
maybe a sudoku, a codeword when I have them, play video games and lately, I
have been doing logic puzzles.
I thought I was the only one who did them because I had
never seen anyone do them. Sudoku seems
to be the favourite, followed by people reading, and then followed by whatever
iPhone game is popular at the moment. I
have never seen anyone doing a logic puzzle.
And no one has ever asked me what I was doing, or stared at me to figure
out what I was doing....... until Friday.
On Friday I met someone who was interested and who wanted to
know where I got the book. This is no
big deal, but it means that I am, in my mind, no longer the only one doing
these things. I am part of some
group. Since the book was published and
sold in a big bookstore chain, I should probably have realized this before
now....but this seems more personal, more real.
Logic puzzles are not the best thing for the bus. There is less to write than a crossword
puzzle (I use circles and "x"s), but more to
pay attention to. I had been managing it
pretty well, but I realized that for the difficult puzzles, it is difficult to
concentrate. Add to this fact that I am
often sleepy during the morning commute and on the verge of dozing off on the
evening commute and you can see the problem.
I will persevere though.
Logic puzzles are fun, and challenging.
I became a fan of logic problems when I was in high school. We spent a week in mathematics class doing
them. I did acceptably well on the test,
but now I would be able to ace it. (okay, that's ego talking--let's just say I
hope I would do better now.)
Over the years I have bought some puzzle magazines because
they contained a few logic puzzles. The
only problem was that I didn't do the rest of the magazine and it sat around
for years until I finally threw it out--no I am not a hoarder, but I am not a
constant purger either. My current book
is 160 pages of logic puzzles. I got it
in the discount section of the bookstore (I guess they aren't popular) and have
done about 25 of them.
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