** Keep Your Mind Sharp With Sudoku **A fun hobby that exercises your brain and gives you a sense of accomplishment - that's the perfect description of the numbers puzzle craze from Japan called sudoku. This great brain game is fun to play, and anyone can do it. Playing can even help delay dementia by teaching your brain to think in a whole new way."Sudoku is a very friendly kind of puzzle," says Thomas Snyder, PhD, a U.S. and world sudoku champion. "You don't have to come to it with any sort of knowledge beforehand - it's not like a crossword where you have to know trivia."And though it's easy to be intimidated by all of those boxes of numbers, sudoku has nothing to do with math. The numbers represent a pattern that could be anything - colors, shapes, letters, or other images."It's not actually about math. It's all about nine elements that represent different things that you fit into particular spots," says Snyder, who also creates sudoku puzzles by hand.If you enjoy logic puzzles and other brain exercises, give sudoku a try. Don't be afraid: numbers, yes, math, no
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