My hubby is the numbers guy. He lives with numbers day after day - as an optical engineer, he uses calculus in his job all the time. So, as you would expect, he loves the Sudoku puzzles in the newspaper (when he has the time).

I'm the words girl. I write, I blog, I teach ... so, of course, I love crossword puzzles. I really enjoy the New York Times puzzle, even though it can sometimes take me all week to get through the Sunday puzzle. Sudoku? No, it just frustrates me. When I make one mistake, I practically have to start the whole thing over to find out where I went wrong.

It's funny, though, that today he stayed home sick, and instead of picking up a book to read, he picked up the last couple days' papers and has been doing the crossword puzzles. But it has been fun for me to help him. Numbers guys don't always get the nuances of meanings in the crossword clues.

What about you - words or numbers?