Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Are there any Sudoku fans out there?? I love puzzles by Will Shortz, who I am proud to say is from my home state of Indiana where we both attended Indiana University...he is THE BEST...
I started doing them as brain gym to keep my aging brain from...well aging...plus they can be pretty challenging...
Just for fun I asked if we would ever run out of puzzles and this is the reply.
"Realistically, no! There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solvable Sudoku grids that yield a unique result (that's 6 sextillion, 670 quintillion, 903 quadrillion, 752 trillion, 21 billion, 72 million, 936 thousand, 960 in case you were wondering)."
Pretty interesting...I really recommend all home schoolers to get their children involved with working Sudokus...Shortz has wonderful books for beginners/children and he is a master at this...so if you're looking for something new and exciting/challenging...give Sudoku a try...they are very addictive...
Sudoku is great. My daughter bought me one for my birthday as I had ran out.
I love Will's crossword puzzles. Increased my vocabulary and learned a lot, doing them over the years.
I do Sudoku puzzles on occasion.