BRAIN GAMES

I really liked Word Sudoku. It made me strategize as if I were doing regular sudoku—which really makes your brain work. —Victoria Pruden owensboro, kentucky Lost Time was so easy that I thought maybe my answer was wrong, although it wasn’t. —Mary Hartshorn westerville, ohio Do I need to turn in my genius card? In Counting Digits, I’m pretty sure the digit 5 occurs 19 times in the numbers 1 to 100, not 20 as you stated. —Kathy Sevy peculiar, missouri FROM THE EDITORS The digits question tricked many of you. It asks how many times “the digit” 5 occurs, and the correct answer includes both 5s in 55.