What do the numbers mean?

Done.

is it loss

how serious of an answear do you want?

THE NUMBERS, MASON

Hmm, quite puzzling.

inherently meaningless. intended only to deceive.

I was always lazy or too feeble minded to learn sudoku. But I recently finally learned minesweeper!

They are an indication that you can't do crossword puzzles.

That the NSA has found you and the only way to escape their goons is to kill the head vampire

Is this loss?

It's a math based puzzle commonly known as Sudoku, the rules are that each 3x3 square can only have numbers 1-9 with no repeats, same with each 9x1 row or column. A set of numbers are placed as a starter pattern (you can solve from blank but it's significantly more challenging) and you need to fill in the remaining numbers.

This is some weird form of minesweeper you are playing

They go down with time. When they are 0, you can leave the train

Number is a simple abstraction: an exercise in conceptualizing a particular part of human experience, - the amounting of stuff and the relations of various amounts.

Its utility shines the most in the practice of measurement: determining, manipulating and comparing the amounts of stuff.

Numbers also useful as a stepping stone in a learning journey, allowing an individual mathematician to transition to using other, more powerful abstractions (like variables, polynomials, sets, functions, vectors, fields, etc.).

Numbers are magick!

There must be something funny in this, right? This has to be some kinda loss or something similar