King and I were talking about this the other night. We thought it would be fun to have a wheel to spin for the word search and sudoku. Perhaps mix up the wheel a bit, have some credit amounts and maybe some buyable furniture or clothing as prizes. I could even see having a lamp for the word search first place player.
The problem with the sudoku giving away a lamp is that it is very easy to find a sudoku solver online. Just punch in the given numbers and within 2 seconds you have all the numbers to plug into the puzzle. More difficult to do that with the crosswords and word searches.
Good ideas, Wendy. I like the buyable furniture or clothing....or maybe even magic as the 'big prize' for the word search. Don't know if I would put lamps on the word search...since it's much easier than the crosswords.
Sudoku: leave it the way it is, I think...or have a wheel with minor prizes on it. When an adult on another part of the 'net mentioned solvers for crosswords when they were first released, I wondered if there was such a thing for sudoku. Yup. Put the numbers in and solved in a couple seconds (which is why I don't even bother playing it...why try to play honest when you know others are going to cheat and win?). Even though it is a hard and challenging version of Sudoku...and worthy of a big prize...it's too easy to cheat...and people will....which makes it blech. All IMHO, of course.
Before any of that, they need to fix the word search so that it's readable and doesn't make you go blind. LOL. Sheesh...
Flamanar...-makes appointment with eye doctor...again-...