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If you had asked me a few years ago whether I’d ever sit down and happily spend an hour filling in little boxes with numbers, I would have laughed. Numbers were my nemesis in school, and puzzles… well, I thought they were for other people. But then I discovered Sudoku, and suddenly, my lazy evenings at home transformed into a thrilling mental adventure.

I still remember the first time I saw a Sudoku puzzle. It was in a small, weathered newspaper at a café. The grid looked deceptively simple: nine by nine boxes, some numbers already filled in, others blank. “How hard can it be?” I thought. I picked up my pen and started filling in a few numbers based on the obvious choices. Easy, right? Wrong. Within five minutes, I realized that the puzzle was a lot trickier than it appeared. Each number seemed to have a personality, a specific spot it demanded, and I had to figure out where it truly belonged.