Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 27, 2022

never heard of that latter game… is it almost like Boggle and a crossword puzzle?

I wonder if my dad would’ve liked it.

Since the R is gray in “drain” (the letter doesn’t exist in the target word), she should have never tried “share”.

I don’t even do Sudoku, why would I want to learn another.

Seek and Find for me !

I do the 9 letter one. Fun. Always start with “beautiful” has all but one of the vowels.

I do Word Crossy, Word Connect, and Letter Fridge. You get 4 to 7 letters and need to complete the crossword puzzle. No clues.

A true plugger would have known not to guess “share” after seeing there is no R (in “drain”). She does know not to guess “shape,” since there is no P (in “space”).

Chess, on your tablet. Challenge and frustration for a lifetime. You’ll make up your own words.

I remember when we talked about books we had read.

Thank goodness I don’t know what that is.

one you definitely don’t want to be looking at is ___ aste…

I started casually doing Sudoku puzzles when they first were in our local newspaper. I have never been great at crossword puzzles – but Sudoku has the advantage of only dealing with 9 different possibilities for each space as opposed to (theoretically) 26 for each space in crosswords.

But since the start of the pandemic I do both the crossword and the “Sudoku X” in our regional newspaper. Sudoku X is a version where not only are all the numbers used once in each column and row, but also in each leg of an X shape over the puzzle (if that makes sense). I figure I need to keep my mind doing something.

A couple of decades ago we were at a quilt show that we went to annually. One of the quilts was done as a Sudoku. Instead of numbers each of squares was one of 9 different fabrics. I took that a step further and did a Sudoku embroidery. There was a different stitch of 9 (a different color for each type of stitch) in the boxes – each stitch being the equivalent of a number rotating through. I had originally planned to have the thread colors rotate through on a different Sudoku setup, but decided that was too much to juggle so I assigned a different color to each of the stitches instead so – for example, all of the of satin stitch squares were stitched with blue floss, all of the squares of cross stitches were stitched with red and so on. I also stitched the board and outside the board at the top “Sudoku”, at the bottom “Sampler”. on one side the year and on the other side my initials. Each of the squares had 9 of the stitch which was in that square. (Hope that all made sense.) I entered it at the local tri-county, county fair and won a blue ribbon. Hangs now on the wall at the top of our staircase.

Has to?