Japanese knots

I turned my nose up at first but an hour with nothing to do found me Sudoku. That led to Kakuro and that led to KenKen!

I'm hooked on Kakuro at present.  Sudoku I find rather tedious.  That's probably because I have not found a good way of solving them other than writing the full gamut of numbers in every square before rubbing them out one by one.

I get into a frenzy when the eraser won't rub out properly and I land up with a grubby little mess of squares. That in turn removes any vestige of memory I had for where I was 'logically' in the puzzle. Mini-rage hits and I put a VERY LARGE CROSS right through the page.

Thus, the whole thing becomes an emotional rather than a logical procedure and of doubtful merit to my sanity.

Family members who also indulge in the game- with considerably less frenzy attached -  give me all sorts of useful tips and aids but,  no,  I still have to coat the page with scribbles and notes and trails of numbers - and occasional rude words too! These, though hastily erased, still remain faintly visible here and there in the Sudoku book.

Kakuro holds my attention with the little additions one needs to make and the number combinations that hold the clue to success. I'm a three or four a day addict now!

KenKen is uncharted territory for me at present.  Still - watch this space!