Hello Group, I apologize for posting a personal message to the entire group. I did not realize that replying to someone would return to the entire group. I will watch this in the future. Carol On 2/16/2011 4:16 AM, Catherine Thomas wrote: > Hi, Everyone, > Once again I apologize for using this list to reach its many braille > readers. > > Based on some research that I did last year with braille readers and what > they would like to read, I discovered a serious lack of braille puzzles > and word-games including Sudoku (sometimes spelled su doku). For those who > don't know, this is the latest craze among sighted puzzle fanciers. It's a > grid which contains numbers and blank spaces where numbers need to be > filled in to complete the puzzle. > > If you are interested in braille puzzles and games, I am forming a > focus group to explore the various possible formats for things like > Sudoku, cross-word puzzles, word-search puzzles, scrambled-word > puzzles, etc. Most of these > require a grid to play from (which contains the puzzle clues) and a grid > to play on (which may be a blank sheet of paper, a cubarythm slate--may > not have spelled that correctly), or an electronic version of the original > puzzle grid which you could place in a word processor and fill in answers. > > If you always wanted to do puzzles and would like to receive some > sample formats to explore, please contact me OFF-LIST. If possible, please > exclude the original message from your response. This will make it easier > to form a distribution list for the group. Thank you so much in advance > for your interest. > Catherine > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -Catherine Thomas > braille@xxxxxxxxx / > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > to view the list archives, go to: > > www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l > > To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > > Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > > to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.