How Can Solving Sudoku and Wordle Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills?

How Can Solving Sudoku and Wordle Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills? Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Rangsk, a Wordle and Sudoku YouTuber.


Join us as we chat about critical thinking, problem solving, and why puzzles are a great way to practice and improve your thinking.


You should subscribe (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buttonclick-admin-podcast/id914088438?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4) for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Rangsk.
Who is Rangsk?

I’m a big word puzzle fan. Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, I love ‘em all! I think they’re a great way to warm up your brain and stay sharp. That’s why I was so excited to sit down with this week’s guest, Rangsk. His YouTube and TikTok videos have helped me become a better puzzle solver, and I wanted to bring him on the pod to talk through his unique approach.


Rangsk first got into puzzle solving via a recommended video on YouTube for Cracking the Cryptic. He fell down the rabbit hole and became obsessed with the logic game that happens behind the numbers. He created his own sudokus and started posting walkthrough videos of how he made them and how to solve them.


Rangsk’s channel has grown exponentially since then. The thing that sticks out to me about his content is the tone: he’s positive, gentle, and clear. He really helps you become a better critical thinker, and have some fun along the way.
Word games are logic puzzles

“I approach word games as if they were logic puzzles,” Rangsk says, “you’re given information and you want to come up with the best possible guess to utilize that information and get as much information as you can.”


Some feedback Rangsk often gets about his solves is that he’s “overthinking it.” For him, that misses the point of doing these sorts of puzzles in the first place. Yes, you can brute force a sudoku or get a lucky guess on a Wordle. But what do you learn from that?


As Rangsk puts it, “It’s a single player game, there are no stakes to it. The only person you’re cheating is yourself.”
Practice your critical thinking skills

Instead, Rangsk recommends using puzzles as a low-stakes opportunity to practice thinking through things logically. It’s an opportunity to build up your critical thinking skills for when there’s more on the line than beating your high score.


At the end of the day, it’s all about learning. Whether you solve a puzzle or get stuck halfway through, Rangsk encourages you take a close look at your thought process and learn from it. Why did you solve it? Why did you get stuck? It’s the chance to learn about yourself and how you think through things that makes these puzzles worthwhile.


Listen to the full episode for more from Rangsk on when it’s OK to hit the hint button, and some other word puzzles you might like if you’re already hooked on Wordle. And don’t forget to subscribe to hear more from the Salesforce Admins Podcast.


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Learn more

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Connections and Wordle games from the New York Times are wildly popular. Can they improve cognitive function as you age? (https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/04/30/connections-wordle-nyt-brain-games/)


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Follow Rangsk on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@Rangsk)


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Cracking the Cryptic on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic)

Other word puzzles

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Cell Tower (https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/)


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Squardle (https://fubargames.se/squardle/)


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Squaredle (https://squaredle.app/)



 


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Full show transcript


Mike Gerholdt: Wordle, Strands, Connections, not just random words, but word games. And I am addicted to them. So, this week on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, I had to get arguably the best word and logic solver I can find from TikTok and YouTube on the podcast. He goes by Rangsk on TikTok, and I'll put a link below. But David and I are talking about critical thinking and problem-solving using word games. Also, just how that applies to life. This is a phenomenal conversation. Don't be scared about the ...

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