#kakuro

[saschagemruler]

I need friends who look at this:

and don't immediately stare at me like I'm insane please I need Kakuro friends, I'm very bad at the game but!!!! Please!!!!!! Numbers!!!!!

[mmm-asbestos]

Sudoku girls get on that kakuro grind‼️with me🫂

[whatimdoing-here]

This morning I got caught in the space between being asleep and getting out of bed. When I'm awake enough to not be falling asleep, but I close my eyes and the real world doesn't exist yet. It's amazing how the scenarios I play out in my head at that time can seem so easy. Leftover dream emotions feed any scenario. They play out however I want and if they don't I rewind and try again. Over and over until I look at the clock and force myself out of bed.

An hour later anything that went through my head then seems unattainable and stupid. Why torture myself?

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

anyone have any puzzle recs

or alternatively whats ur favourite puzzle type if you have one

for me when it comes to apps I love nonograms the most but I also like minesweeper. Then when it comes to paper (or apps still) I like logic grid puzzles, kenken, sudoku, word/number fill ins, & kakuro off the top of my head.

sometimes I encounter a new puzzle and I’m like !!!! I love this how did I never know about this before !!! so I am reaching out to expand my puzzle list and also just want to hear what anyone reading this likes

[the-acid-pear]

Utterly heartbreaking discovery i had today. :(

[lavosse]

u guys should all hang out and play kakuro with me it rocks if u wanna feel good at math and solve little puzzles with your brain :)

[therealfroggymagician]

made a your turn to die OC(s)!!! 

[eternally-tired-cryptid]

I COULD play harder and harder levels of my silly number games. Or I could play a bunch of easy levels

[in-omni-scientia]

Do you blue skills have specific activities to bond with each other? Other than arguing.

Of course we do, what sort of a question IS this? You've practically only seen our arguments -- we have plenty of other ways to get along, and *do*. Let's see here...

Personally, I can enjoy a nice, fun game of Scrabble with others here. The only issue is, Conceptualization tends to try to make up their own words to use. Then, when I try to tell them that the words have to be *in the dictionary*, Rhetoric comes in and starts using my own prattling on the roots of different parts of whatever word Conceptualization made up to try and say they'd be *justified*. It always turns into a big argument and honestly I'm just not prepared for that sort of thing. I'd rather play with Empathy; he's always a good games partner to me. Also, I think Drama ate most of the pieces, so we can't play anymore because of that, too. I am very annoyed about that.

Mh. Okay, maybe that one wasn't a great example to start off with. How about this one? Conceptualization and Drama actually had a little thing going briefly where they would organise plays together! Occasionally got me and Visual Calculus involved as well for some extra hands; I could talk at length about ideas for set pieces, Visual Calculus organising the lights... it was fun. Anyways, that didn't last though since they separated due to. Ah. "Creative differences". I understand it was a rather explosive argument, from what I gathered talking to them. When I consulted Conceptualization on the matter, he responded, and I quote: "That intransigent vexing little self-wank-fest of a fucking ball of gloop can't even *hold* a pen let alone understand the nuanced symbolism inherent to all media, they don't even fucking understand basic media literacy God help us all, their ability to write romance is surface-level at best and[...]". You can only imagine how long that continued on for. Anyways, when I asked Drama, all they did was think for a moment before allowing a wry smile to ripple over a great many of their faces, and saying: "Their writing was sub-par and their costuming was ill-fitting". So.

...Aaaalright, not *that* one either. Here, something much simpler, then. I can enjoy a good crossword every now and then, and Logic a Kakuro puzzle (though he much prefers Heyawake and Killer Sudoku), so he suggested collaborating on a neat step up from these, the cross-figure. Well, we *attempted* to collaborate -- I found myself only useful on general knowledge questions, which did not appear often as they are considered beginner, and Logic found beginner puzzles far too easy. So then we tried cryptic crosswords, which I did not find myself very useful in either, since while I may possess plenty of knowledge I don't have the logical capabilities to know when a clue could be referring to that. Then we hopped around cipher and fill-in crosswords, which turned out even *worse*. It culminated in a minor dispute between us where I claimed Logic was only prioritizing his *own* fun, which he argued to be untrue. Not really a fault on his part, in hindsight, and only heated on *my* end as a result of my own feeling of inefficacy... ultimately we agreed to be contented with doing our own puzzles, for now. (Well, aside from Heyawake. I'm *smashing* Heyawake.) Now it's mostly just Visual Calculus arguing with Logic to let *him* do the Kakuro in the fortnightly logic puzzle magazine for once.

Huh. Well, this one's *bound* to be a good example. At one point, Conceptualization was making little locked-room-style mysteries for Logic and Visual Calculus to solve. Full-size rooms they could walk around in -- it was quite impressive to watch them work. Didn't ever take them too long to solve them, but still. It was nice seeing something Conceptualization had asked me about crop up there. *Then* they started writing little honkaku-style mysteries for them, too, to see how fast they could figure out the solution to the crime before the end of the story. By my recommendation, obviously; I thought they would appreciate the rational, chess-like approach to mystery, compared to thriller novels which may not adhere to Van Dine's Commandments as strictly. Conceptualization appreciated it, too; "none of that hard-boiled crap, it's all shit" they said. I think they liked the digressions into criticism of the detective genre as a whole and fourth-wall breaking; Logic liked *all* the pieces being perfectly available and within grasp for a shrewd reader, Visual Calculus liked the heavy use of diagrams and such. Whenever Conceptualization didn't turn one of these diagrams into a three-dimensional playset, Visual Calculus was doing that. Anyways, the dear art snob never could quite seem to get the upper hand in their writing -- the pair were *unstoppable* in their natural disposal towards ratiocination. That is, until it started to get... rather strange. More and more the story would divagate into long-winded social commentary that served no purpose for the narrative (*not* a hallmark of honkaku, mind you), would make the solution increasingly convoluted (Rube Goldberg-type machines aren't out of place in honkaku, but they were getting quite far beyond the reasonable suspension of disbelief for a story within the detective genre), introduce irrational narrative elements such as supernatural phenomena (*also* not a hallmark of honkaku, though can and does crop up in shin honkaku -- I regret convincing the pair to continue giving Conceptualization a chance. The opportunity to grant them knowledge was not worth it, in the end. Come to think of it, that's happened *more* than once, hasn't it? Thinking back to the Moray Eel Incident... mmh). And, well, in hindsight it was an inevitability... but it all came to a boiling point when one such mystery, giving Logic and Visual Calculus quite a lot of grief, concluded *not* with a proper solution, but with a plain metaphor for-- love or capitalism or something ridiculous like that, I don't try to actively remember. The ensuing argument somehow had Logic and Visual Calculus turning against one another, too, despite the fact they were both on the *same side*. Probably had something to do with Drama being their throwing stones, as per usual. And Rhetoric, arguing whatever side they thought would inflame everyone else the most. Also, I was there too. Also, I was turning against Logic and Visual Calculus despite being on *their* side as well. Also, it was Drama and Rhetoric's fault as well. Damn those two. Embarrassing for me... anyways, we're not allowed to write our own mysteries anymore because Harry nearly had a stroke and died.

...

Ah. Maybe *quite a lot* of our pastimes do involve arguing after all.

Perhaps I should stick to who I have already established myself as being able to get along with...

[victorrs]

🎲 for the ask game? ♥

🎲 - game

there are so many categories to "game" i think i'll just go through everything i can think of lol

if we're talking about otome games, then it would have to be mystic messenger, the game that started it all for me. i sometimes go back to it but the 3 am chats are not very helpful when it comes to sorting out my already horrible sleep schedule lol

if i were to choose my favourite from the ikemen series though, i'd say ikemen sengoku! i think nostalgia plays a part in it too since i started playing it when ikesen en was first released

if we're talking about non-otome related mobile games, then candy crush soda and my kakuro app are my comfort games

and if we're talking about board games, card games etc, i love them all and cannot choose. but also i've been having fun with this board game called pallanguli which is a sort of strategy game where you have to collect more shells than the other person

this is what the board looks like:

[mmm-asbestos]

Failing this kakuro puzzle repeatedly.

[rance-ed]

DC Muses:

The Scarecrew:

Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow: @rance-ed @reviviscencegruiform

Lindsay: @whim-whams-and-jim-jams

Molly Randall: @pedigreebypedagogue

Scaregoon: @lemonscentedneurotoxin

Earth-3:

Dove: @mustard-seed

Jester: @ivegotbellsthatjinglejangle

Independent:

Mad Mod: @carnabyclockwork

Harley Quinn: @jonathancranesnudes

Toyman: @childishintent

2004 Oswald Cobblepot: @callofthecobblepot

1992 Oswald Cobblepot: @geriatricpregnancy

Gotham-style Oswald Cobblepot: @f0ulf0wl

Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man: @ladykriller

Gotham-style Victor Zsasz: @tally-whacker

DC Blogs not in play yet because storyline:

Forgotten @iamremembered

Linda Friitawa @ameriscare

Hub Blog for the Homestuck stuff: @wellthatsabangerurl

Homestuck: Neftat Kakuro @animacomedian

And I'll probably make more so expect this list to be added to.

[avorragule]

Get To Know Me Tag

thank you for tagging me @hyeoni-comb!

Do you make your bed?

No i just roll back the duvet to let the moisture out

What’s your favorite number?

24, 32 multiples of eight

What is your job?

I am an apprentice tax advisors assistant

If you could go back to school, would you?

I have to attend a vocational school. I learn well in a school setting and thankfully our class got split so that the other over thirty year olds and I make up a higher percentage of the smaller class because a room full of people who just left secondary education was exhausting.

Can you parallel park?

No not really I failed the driving test the first time because I couldnt. Thankfully I didnt have to the second time.

A job you had that would surprise people?

None

Do you think aliens are real?

yes, but also I also believe no intelligent life is close enough to us for it to matter if they are real or not

Can you drive a manual car?

Yes

What’s your guilty pleasure?

I do try not to have one

Tattoos?

no

Favorite color?

a dark turquoise somewhere close to the Windows 98 desktop

Favorite type of music?

no idea

Do you like puzzles?

I do occasionaly enjoy a kakuro

Any phobias?

heights

Favorite childhood sport?

none

Do you talk to yourself?

yes

What movies do you adore?

Kind Hearts and Coronets The Proposal 27 Dresses My Beautiful Man: Eternal

Coffee or tea?

coffee

First thing you wanted to be growing up?

the only thing that anyone remembers is retiree

tagging @respectthepetty @brifrischu @dropthedemiurge @aliceisathome (no pressure to participate!)