Discussions

How I Discovered the Joy of a 9x9 Grid

It started out as a simple experiment. I was bored, waiting for a friend at a café, scrolling through my phone without much purpose. Then, I saw a Sudoku app icon I hadn’t opened in months. On a whim, I tapped it.

The puzzle was simple—labeled “Easy”—but as soon as I started filling in the first few numbers, I felt something unexpected. The clutter in my mind faded. Each blank square demanded my attention, and gradually, patterns started to emerge. In that moment, Sudoku became more than a game—it became a way to focus, to calm, and to enjoy the tiny satisfaction of solving something with logic and patience.