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Sudoku teaches lessons on life
By Franklyn Gallup of WoodFloorist.com
Sudoku is a puzzle I enjoy. I first started doing this puzzle thinking it was a guessing puzzle. Trial and error until the correct answer magically appears. Its when I started approaching it as a logic puzzle that I really started enjoying it. My one son, Adam, introduced me to the concept of doing the puzzles in pen and ink. This means that you don't put a number in a square until you are absolutely positive it is the one and only number that can go there. I have come to realize that Sudoku teaches some valuable life lessons over time and I felt the desire to share some of these lessons this morning. The first thing I noticed is that there is basically only one rule. Everything else is dependent on this rule. Insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: Each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once.
This one rule is similar to a rule in life. It is often referred to as the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
These two rules are often said different ways but the meaning is always the same. I try to live my life by the second rule. Other things I have noticed while playing the game are things that have parallels in life. 1. Overlapping Spheres of Influence. Each box has overlapping spheres of influence. Let's suppose that each column represents your family. Each small box is unique in that column just as each family member is unique. Let's suppose each row represents your coworkers at your job. Again each small box is unique like a person is unique with talents at work. Then let's suppose each 3 x 3 box represents your community. Again each small box is unique in that sphere. These three spheres of influence overlap just as they do in life. 2. Global connection Each of the 81 small boxes is related either directly or indirectly to all the other small boxes. This is similar in life to the Six degrees of separation Click here if you are not familiar with this. The six degrees of separation can be stated as: Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. 3. Everyone is important Each and every number in each and every box regardless of how big or small it is, is essential to the solution of the puzzle. Essentially, every number is of equal importance. This concept is expressed beautifully in The Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 4. Choice It seems to me that the Sudoku puzzle also parallels the life quality of choice. You can chose to do the puzzle in ink as I do or you can choose to do it in pencil so that you solve the puzzle by trial and error. You can do the puzzle online in my web page below where you type in the numbers. You can chose to do the puzzle as a guessing game and hope for the best kind of like gambling or you can choose not to do the puzzle at all. Basically you can do it your way! 5. Make your own puzzle Some people like to let someone else be creative. There is nothing wrong with that. I like to be a little creative and make my own puzzles. I have added a couple pictures below as examples. 6. Variable and non variable factors In life there are some things that you have no control over. You have no control over the spinning of the earth in relation to the sun. You have no control over gravity or the laws of inertia (an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless a force changes that condition). These are non variable elements we work out life around with what we can control. This concept of variables and non variables is expressed eloquently in the Serenity Prayer. God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. In the Sudoku Puzzle the non variables are the numbers and placement of those numbers in the puzzle before you start. The variables are the blank spaces.
I am sure I have forgotten a few more lessons I have learned but those are the basic ones. You can add others in your comments.
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Blank Sudoku frame. Print this out and try your luck at making a puzzle.
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Well, okay I get the 6 degrees of separation but now I'm 98 degrees in the shade.
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A nice cold beer will fix that problem.
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