Hanjie Day
Posted 07 Oct, 2009
Hanjie puzzles are highly addictive – you think you can solve one and then leave the rest, but that next blank grid lures you into 'just one more'. Before you know it, the day's work is left undone, the housework untouched, the family unfed, exam revisions unstudied, and the garden returned to nature's weedy jungle.
For some, discipline is needed, and a daily rota worked out and strictly adhered to:
08:00 Breakfast
08:30 One 15x15
09:00 Work/study/shopping according to life's demands
12:30 Lunch
12:35 A couple of 20x20 or even a start on a 30x30
13:30 Work etc
17:00 Home, family time, dinner (above all, patience)
19:30 Settle down, sharpen pencils and have at it (Students – one hour study per 15 minutes solving)
22:30 Nightcap (optional)
23:00 Force magazine shut, lay down pencil and so to bed
02:30 Dream of chasing little black squares up the motorway that then turn into triangles, circles and pictures that bite and anything else the brain comes up with, while the guy at head office is taking time off.
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