Guess I'm A Sudoku Fan Now...

 Looks like I've found a new way to waste time...

Playing sudoku.

I know I'm late to the party. The game's been around for ages. I even tried it once or twice, but it never caught my fancy. I think it's because I played using paper and a pencil. Maybe it's because I thought I needed to use math skills to be good at the game. Whatever it was, I sort of ignored the game.

That is, until I came across a free sudoku game for my phone. I downloaded it, and it's been my game of choice ever since.

I'm picky when it comes to cellphone games. They have to pass certain standards. The biggest, they must not get increasingly more difficult the more you play. I realize this eliminates 95% (or more...) of all games. Because of this rule, I only have a couple of games on my phone that I access and play.

What I most like about the game is that it's possible I do not have to do any guessing. I can take my time and look at the numbers. Check out how many 1s, 2s, etc. Then, by process of elimination, I begin filling in the spaces until I either can't proceed without guessing or I've solved the puzzle.

I've got a solitaire game, a mahjong game, a coloring game, and now, a sudoku game.

That should keep me busy for a while...

I Didn't Realize It At The Time...But I Jinxed It

 My generation is the first video game generation. Pong came into existence (thanks to a U of U student...) in the seventies. I was between five-years old and ten-years old in the seventies. My poison was Asteroids...loved that game. Still love that game. I spent way too much money on that game, and others. A quarter a play...almost seems ridiculous now, but it wasn't...because I paid it.

Younger generations than mine seem to be more involved in video games. The twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings, even forty-somethings play more games than me. These are just my observations so I may be wrong here. Still, as it applies to me, I don't play a lot of games.

Fast forward several decades and now I have an iPhone. The technology in that phone makes the original Pong game look like a marble compared to a car. There are so many apps out there, so many games, it's sometimes overwhelming. Out of all those possibilities, I've basically found two that I play...a solitaire game, and a breakout-type game.

When I got my new iPhone last year, I transferred the information from my old iPhone to the new one. When I went to play Jet Ball, it didn't download. Turns out, that particular game is no longer in the App Store.

Bummer.

But, I still had the game on my old phone, so not so bad.

Then, I got a message that a new iPhone operating update was available. I updated both phones, went to play Jet Ball on the old phone, and I got the above message. And because the game is no longer in the app store, the game is no longer available to me.

Last week my wife, daughter, and I were discussing iPhone games. My wife and daughter play a couple of games I don't play and they chatted about them. My daughter was complaining about one of their games, and I said, "I only play two games...that's all I need."

Now, thanks to the update, I only have one.

I shouldn't have said that...pretty sure I jinxed it.