This website: griddlers.net is trouble.
I love puzzles, word searches, logic problems, etc. In fact Bear just bought me a huge 500 puzzle book from the grocery store and I finished it in a week. I can’t put the things down.
Years ago I worked for a consulting company where my job was to basically act as backup to a woman who had a stroke and couldn’t type anymore. There was almost never anything to do. So she shared her computer game collection with me. This was all pre-internet, so it consisted of a couple shareware puzzle games from everett kaser (kaser.com)
So when I was at my last stupid office job looking for something to kill time I looked them up again out of nostalgia and found a whole treasure trove of puzzles to keep me from watching the clock. My favorite was called Decartes Enigma. I’ve also heard these called Paint by Number or Griddlers. Oh. My. Gosh. I love these stupid things.
I think it’s because I love the artwork of pixelization. Knitting, crosstitching, even my experiments with perler beads, a lot of the artwork I do involves rendering an image in a series of little squares. So this combines that love, with a logic puzzle. A match made in heaven.
I’ve gone through the Decartes Enigma puzzles about a dozen times, so I googled to see if I could find more for free, and to what should my wondering eyes appear but the most glorious use of internet technology known to man! Over 20,000 griddlers to solve, with more submitted every day! And I can make my own! And they come in color! And they’ve got triddlers which add a new dimension!
So far I’ve been a member for maybe 4 days and I’ve already spent 8 hours on the site. I find myself pacing around the house trying to get comfortable, sitting down at the computer for a change of scene, and all of a sudden it’s 3 hours later and I’m in agony from sitting up for so long. And yet I don’t care.
I know. I’m an unstoppable geek.
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