Brain Drain
I do the daily crosswords,
first on the computer,
and then in the newspaper
when later it arrives.
My wife does the Sudoku,
but I hate numbers
though I adore
the restless energy of chess.
Online games of point and click
deaden my brain and kill my eyes.
I lengthen my winning streak of patience
every day. Twice I have climbed
to fifteen hundred wins, then wiped
them out to start again.
Boring? Not at all. Anything to keep
the old grey matter ticking over;
anything to keep me
lively and alive.
rogermoorepoet 
I do sudoku too. And mah jong on the computer. Keep that grey matter ticking, I like that!
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I find with the chess that it is either immediately obvious or I just can’t work it out. This has nothing to do with the ease or difficulty of the problems. Some days I wonder …. Clare does the Sudoku.
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My chess skills are rudimentary. However if I play with someone else who is a novice, I enjoy it very much!
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Mine seem to vary from day to day.
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Sounds reasonable, though I prefer TV quiz shows like University Challenge. That way I can eat pizza while exercising my brain.
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Good one. We don’t get University Challenge over here. I see a Canadian got to the final this year though.
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