Hey Bill thanks fitting as I am rather into Suguru at the moment and
crosswords with my partner Janet and other odds puzzles we pensioners!!
I find rather satisfying not unsatisfying for solving a challenging puzzle
chock in? is new to me or is it clock in?
Too hard,
you swim to no shore
yes that feeling!
On 07/11/2018 01:15, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Connundrums 2
>
>
> Why do we seek
>
> to be confounded?
>
>
> Why is untangling
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> unsatisfying?
>
>
> Puzzles fizzle
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> when solved
>
>
> The attraction
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> that captured you so
>
>
> collapses
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> before your eyes
>
>
> frees you
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> from mind grip
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>
> Nine letters tumble
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> about in Target
>
>
> snaking
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> through your brain
>
>
> sometimes taking
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> a good hour
>
>
> over
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> breakfast
>
>
> before the letters
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> chock in
>
>
> That word
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> now looking so natural
>
>
> How could you not
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> have seen it straightaway?
>
>
> Sudoku’s numbers,
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> bereft of arithmetic function
>
>
> sit only as ciphers
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> waiting for you
>
>
> to dart in with pencil
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> among the bold
>
>
> the simple aim:
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> complete the grid
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>
> close off those rows
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> fill those sub-squares
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> Make finite
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> progress
>
>
> Thing is you want
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> to be held up
>
>
> and at the same time
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> to crack it
>
>
> as you submit
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> to the puzzle’s thrall
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>
> Too easy,
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> no challenge
>
>
> Too hard,
>
> you swim to no shore
>
>
> So what do you
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> really want?
>
>
> What
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> a connundrum
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>
> bw
>
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