Sunday Poser #283 – Tackling Challenges or Have it Easy?

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Do you like to tackle challenges or like things to be easy? 

So how do you spend your free time- by challenging yourself doing puzzles etc, or entertaining yourself with movies and shows? What do you think is more effective?

A little bit of both, actually. I like to tackle a challenge but at the same time, I like the challenge to be solvable.

I love puzzles. I started doing puzzles from a very young age. I remember being occupied by hours when I was a child by jigsaw puzzles. My mom would try to find complex jigsaws for me to do but I always finished them too quick than she would’ve liked. After moving to the U.S., my puzzles became Word Search. Before smart phones existed, my mom used to buy me books full of Word Search puzzles at the dollar store and I seem to finish them in a heartbeat.

When I moved to Salt Lake City, I was introduced to Sudoku and was instantaneously hooked. I’m still hooked to this day but in a different form of Sudoku. The puzzle I’m enamored with now is called Kakuro. It’s like Sudoku but with math. I recently started playing this again after getting bored with another puzzle game – Cross Math.

Have I mention how much I love puzzles that involve numbers? Numbers sometimes seem to make more sense to me than words and letters.

Anyway, I tend to occupy myself with puzzles these days when I’m watching TV, just because I feel like nothing is really worth to watch these days, so I find I enjoy the show more when I just listen and watch it happen in my head rather than on the screen. Also, I found having something playing in my ears makes my focus on the puzzle just a little better.

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12 thoughts on “Sunday Poser #283 – Tackling Challenges or Have it Easy?”

  1. I also enjoyed doing jigsaw puzzles when I was young, and then moved on to chess or damath boards, since I had to make my own board as a project back then.

    During my college days, I enjoyed7 Chess, Monopoly, and UNO. After quite some time, I stopped enjoying those past-time games and started playing online games.

    As someone who really witnessed the shift from organic games to digital, everything now became a challenge to me.

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    1. I quite miss the physical board and card games I used to play. These days, though we can play by ourselves, it’s not the same as sitting across someone and able to have a conversation with him/her during the game.

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      1. You can do a free on line test – it’s academic, but good to know. You have obviously made the best of yourself. I was just grateful to have my suspicions confirmed. I’m functional autistic and adhd. Took so long to find the words to describe me. 😊. I regard it as a super power.

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      2. I would regard anyone being a little weird and abnormal a superhero, myself included (not to brag or anything) because it’s not easy living in a world where you’re different than those around you.

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