How well do you solve puzzles ?

Puzzles in general? Yes. Specifically, it depends upon the type.

I enjoy word puzzles, such as the NYT Sunday crossword, diagramless or acrostic and the cryptics by Cox, Rathvon, and Maltby in Harper’s, the WSJ and the Atlantic archives.

I love puzzles and I am, in general, pretty good at them.

Like the game of…. We’re going on vacation and we’ll bring a hammer but no nails.

Just love them… unfortunately that can not be said of the people I’m normally with. :-/

I love word puzzles and number puzzles, things like Sudoku, Boggle, that sort of thing. I fail with logic puzzles though, and the sort of cryptic puzzles that are in some computer games.

I like Sudoku and other logic puzzles, Jumble™ and crossword puzzles.

The ones I can never figure out are “does he like me?” puzzles.

I really love puzzles! I’m good at a few of them, mostly logic puzzles. Sudoku, riddles, anagrams, etc. I’m not so good at crosswords because they require trivial knowledge on a vast array of subjects, which I don’t really have. And I’ve yet to figure out the key to deciphering cryptograms. I’ve been working on that lately.

I love crossword puzzles and sudoku. I am not particularly good at crosswords but I still enjoy them. I am really good at sudoku so I might enjoy them even more. Logic puzzles have never been my cup of tea so I tend to avoid those. I do have the particularly useless gift of being awesome at word search puzzles and word scrambles.

It depends. The more visual they are, the better I do. I fare moderately well in anything with words/letters, a bit better in number problems, and generally kick ass at those that I can actually pick up and manipulate.

@downtide & @Mariah

I’m surprised that you each mutually exclude “Sudoku” and “logic”. Sudoku is just another type of logic puzzle. I would think that if you do well at either, then you’ll do well at the other (or should, anyway… maybe my logic is flawed).

@WasCy Oh no, I meant Sudoku as an example of a logic puzzle I am good at.

@Mariah I had never thought of sudoku as a logic puzzle, thanks for helping me realize there is one type of logic puzzle I am good at!

I like the logic puzzles too, especially the riddles.

I’ll add to mix jigsaw puzzles, we love ‘em. It can take us several days to get one done.
It’s surprising to me how much variety there is in the design features of jigsaw puzzles – each of which yields to a different pattern recognition algorithm.

Very well. Now and then I’ll get a buzz on and traipse into one of those shopping mall game stores to play with the 3-D puzzle games and such.

I like puzzles. Suduko, Tetris and anagrams.

I like figuring things out. Puzzles are OK, but I have to be in a special mood. And I must have people around me who love me no matter what, because when I’m concentrating on a puzzle I make odd noises and blurt stuff out and yell at my puzzle pieces! “YOU GO RIGHT THERE AND YOU KNOW IT!!!!!”

I would totally love watching you solve that puzzle, @Dutchess_III.

It helps me concentrate!

@WasCy Sudoku doesn’t really need raw logic. There are set steps you can use, a bit like doing a rubiks cube. The sort I can’t do is the raw logic type, like “detective” puzzles.

Pretty well. I love doing them. I wish I had a coffee table or something to do jigsaw puzzles on (and a way to keep my cats from thinking it’s a good place for a nap…).

@downtide

It may be that you’re selling yourself short on logic by ignoring the fact that the “set steps” that you use to resolve Sudoku puzzles are, in reality, logic gates. The chief added obstacle in the “detective” puzzles that you mention is, I think, in the interpretation of the clues (sometimes), because they aren’t as clear as numbers in a grid. Because I disagree with your assertion: Sudoku is pure logic.

I solve a lot of them in video games, but they’re never really all that hard, unless you’re playing Wild Arms or Myst or something.
Otherwise not a big fan, but I always loved those types of puzzles that are metal rings and links and stuff, that you have a specific thing you need to do with them to solve it. My friend’s aunt has a bunch, and last year on Xmas, I stayed up way late after everyone went to bed to play with them. I also like rubix cubes, but I never did manage to solve one.

Not well at all. A big mallet solves it well enough for me.

I solve puzzles well enough, but I can’t say I would ever do one for fun.

Puzzles. Are. Awesome. Accept it.

I do at least one Sudoku and one crossword puzzle a day, and I always enjoy them.

I enjoy most puzzles. I’ve been quite good at them since I was a toddler. It’s a weird talent of mine.

I like jigsaw puzzles, sliding block puzzles, sudoku, tetris, rubik’s cube, crossword (and other word puzzles), disentanglement puzzles, mazes, puzzle boxes, puzzle blocks and pretty much anything else that is very pattern based.

Thanks for replies ^^

@PluckyDog You sounded like that black guy on Forest Gump when he was talking about shrimp!

@Dutchess_III LOL ok that made me laugh alot. When typing it, I actually thought ..“My, that’s a lot of puzzles.” ..you are funny – still laughing.

Good! Hey…you ever go to NGM.com (Nat Geo Magazine)? Tons of puzzles of all kinds there. They even had a 1000 piece puzzle that you can start on. And you don’t have to worry about missing pieces, or having the cats sleeping on your puzzle. : )

No, I frequent the National Geographic website though. I’ve never been to the magazine version. Thanks for the link ..I must go find puzzles! Oh, wait, it’s the same website ..lol.

puzzles! puzzles!!

Hell if I know. It’s too difficult to figure out.

@WasCy well the bottom line is, I can do Sudoku puzzles but I can’t do any other kind of logic puzzles.