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Killer Sudoku 1: The Deadly New Dimension

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Plenty of fun 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I do enjoy regular Sudoku. But there are a couple of problems with it. First, while it uses numbers, it in no way uses the properties of numbers. Second, the level of effort to solve such puzzles is generally uneven; you may get a few numbers early, but then it gets very tough, and soon after that it is easy again. When it is tough, you may have to write down possible values in a square or guess, and that's unsatisfying compared to being able to simply write down correct numbers in blank squares.

With Killer Sudoku, one does get to use the additive properties of numbers, so there really is a difference between the symbols! And the level of effort is more nearly even. In addition, even hard puzzles generally can be solved without writing anything down but the answers. It is my favorite Sudoku variant ("Greater than Killer Sudoku" is my second favorite).

This book is about at the right level. Do not be scared by the "deadly" puzzles at the end, as I found them to be easier than some of the earlier ones.

I recommend this book to all those who enjoy a challenge and have some time on their hands.

Editorial Review:

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a pencil

Killer Su Doku is based on the original Su Doku grid, with the same rules and numbers—1 to 9—but with an added deadly twist. This time there is an element of arithmetic involved and there are few, if any, clues. The aim is to not only complete every row, column, and cube so that it contains the digits 1 to 9, but to also fill in the outlined cubes so they add up to the same number.

Hints to solve the puzzle are hidden in the joined squares where only one combination of numbers applies. In the case of joined squares, if the printed number is 3, it should be 1 and 2 that go into the squares. Likewise, in the case of three joined squares, if the printed number is 6, the only combination possible is 1, 2, and 3.

To add one final fiendish level, each puzzle also has a time worked out by its Japanese creators so you can try to beat the clock.

The Mammoth Book of Sudoku: 400 New Puzzles - The Biggest and Best Collection of Sudoku Ever

Nathan Haselbauer

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Very NIce 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I love sudoku and while in Iraq I want to keep busy. This book provides quite a bit of every puzzle sudoku has to offer

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is so good, even my 7 year od daugther learned how to play this game.

Lots of Puzzles! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This will keep you busy for weeks if not months. Nice Collection of Sudoku puzzles.

excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I loved the suduku book. It contained puzzles in there that were new that I have never seen before. It had detailed instructions for the newer puzzles even the older puzzles, so if you were new to the puzzles you would know exactly what to do. I would highly recommend this to someone else.

A good gift 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book for and gave it as a gift to someone in a different state. I never saw the book; however, that person was grateful for the number and varying difficulty of the assorted puzzles.

Editorial Review:

Here's the biggest and most exciting book of sudoku puzzles ever compiled. Over 400 new puzzles designed to satisfy all levels from beginner to expert are featured, with all kinds of challenges, all levels of difficulty, and more varieties of number-placement (and letter-placement) puzzles than any other collection available.

Sudoku Variants (Sudoku)

Conceptis Puzzles

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Best Variety 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

I love this book. Got tired for the 9x9 boxes long ago. There's enough variety to make sure you never get bored. Most of these puzzles are not for the beginner so make sure you can handle the advanced 9x9's before working these.

A lot of good variations 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book has a number of different variations on Sudoku. One type, Sum Sudoku, requires a little math. The remainder are purely logic puzzles, same as standard Sudoku. I found the 'irregular Sudoku' particularly challenging the 1st time I tried it (which was not in this book). The book gives various difficulty levels so you can work up your skills at each type of variation. I'm glad I picked it up, & plan to get it as a gift for another Sudoku fan.

Editorial Review:

Everyone knows sudoku is enjoyable—but these addictive puzzles also come in endless variations too! They range from simple to very difficult, and can take almost no time to finish…or require many hours. This entertaining collection showcases a wide range of possibilities, offering solvers who have become accustomed to the standard rules and grids an exciting new challenge. Select from Mega Sudoku that provide a real workout; Diagonals or Odd and Even versions with extra constraints; Sum Sudoku that merge with kakuro; and Multisudoku with overlapping puzzles. There’s something for every level—12 x 12 puzzles, ones with irregularly shaped areas, even Mini Sudoku—and lots of fun for everyone.

The Kids' Book of Sudoku 1!

Alastair Chisholm

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com 5 out of 5 stars.
25 of 25 people found this review helpful.

If your family, like mine, has noticed a discernable lack of breakfast table conversation since the sudoku craze hit the United States, and your kids seem a little bit put off by the fact that Mom and Dad both have their noses buried in a sudoku, why not quiet them down by shoving this lovely little book under their noses?

In all seriousness, though, this is a great sudoku book for kids or beginners. The puzzles start at VERY easy and move to what an adult's easy-intermediate level would be. Remember that math skills are not necessary for sudoku-it's a logic puzzle which just happens to use numbers (they're used entirely symbolically) so if your kid hates math, they still may very well enjoy this book.

Again, this is not JUST for kids, people who've never tried sudoku before may enjoy this book as it starts off at a super-basic level.

Editorial Review:

THE KID'S BOOK OF

SUDOKU

Sudoku is the puzzle craze that's sweeping the nation. Now you, too, can become a genuine Sudoku genius!

This book tells you exactly how to get solving. It includes more than 150 puzzles, ranging in difficulty from brain ticklers, that will get you started (and addicted), to brain bogglers for scorchin' Suduko-ers.

Mensa Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 3 (Mensa)

Frank Longo

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A stumper!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I finally found a sudoku puzzle that can't be done in an hour. An awesome book.

Difficult but... 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I finally found some really difficult sudoku - they take time! But from the write-up I was expecting to get some explanations on how to solve using the more complicated techniques. It would also be nice if the answers included reference to which of the more difficult techniques were used to solve them.

Nasty Mensa 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Mensa Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 3 (Mensa)

I like to think of myself as a sudoku whiz and this book has me humbled. It's difficult but not impossible. It's a matter of patience and logic that will win the day against these absolutely nasty puzzles.

Good puzzles, small print 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I like the puzzles very much. They were the challenging kind that I have been looking for. My minor complaints are that the print was too small and that there was not enough room to write in the margins. Of couse, it might help if my eyesight was better.

Editorial Review:

The difficulty level soars, as even more tricks get added to the mix: X-Wing; Swordfish; XY-Wing; XYZ-Wing; and the Gordonian Rectangle.

Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Will Shortz Presents...)

Will Shortz

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Very large 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Was surprised by how large the book is (I guess I should have guessed that 1000 puzzles would be a large book). Too large for taking for travel. Too many of the puzzles are "easy" (450 out of 1000). But it was inexpensive!!

Editorial Review:

Ul•ti•mate (ul´te mit) adj.---of the greatest size or importance, the maximum; when used to describe puzzles, refers to sudoku as the widely acknowledged “king of logic puzzles” from the world’s #1 puzzle guru, Will Shortz
 
Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku is the biggest, boldest, and most impressive collection of sudoku available.  If you can’t get enough of these addictive, seductive puzzles, then the book for you has finally arrived.  So prepare to dive into sudoku: With one thousand puzzles, you’ll always be satisfied!
 
Features:
·          1,000 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard
·          Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz

·          Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

1001 Sudoku: A Huge Collection of the 21st Century's Hottest Puzzle

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Lots of Sudoku for the seriously hooked. 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I saved the first 500 or so puzzles for my grown daughter, who is just getting into Sudoku, but have spent weeks working through the other 500 puzzles and still have a couple hundred to go. Lots of puzzles for the money.

Editorial Review:

1001 Sudoku is a simple book that’s filled with fantastic puzzles. There are enough superb sudoku in this handsome volume to keep even the biggest puzzle fan busy for months — if not years!

Sudoku is the puzzle craze that took the world by storm in 2005. From humble beginnings as a daily puzzle in a British newspaper, the number placement logic puzzle has become a publishing sensation, hitting best-seller lists all over the world. The simple-to-learn but difficult-to-master nature of the puzzle is such that people of all ages, all abilities, and all walks of life can enjoy it.

1001 Sudoku is the ultimate sudoku book, giving enough top-quality puzzles for even the most devoted fan, but suitable for those who want to get into the craze but might feel intimidated by numbers. Remember, you don’t have to be good at math to be good at Sudoku!

Sudoku Easy Presented by Will Shortz Volume 1: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles

Will Shortz

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The hottest craze in puzzles!

 

“On no account should any reader not already hooked so much as a glance at a sudoku. That way lies addiction and madness. Sudoku are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what Rubik’s Cube was to the 1970s.”

--Tom Utley, The Daily Telegraph

 

From puzzlemaster and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes sudoku, the new “wordless crossword” puzzle that’s taking the world by storm! Once you start, you won’t want to stop. These addictive puzzles are easy to explain--just fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rules--but incredibly fun and engaging to complete. You don’t need any mathematics knowledge: Just supply a pencil and an inquisitive mind.

This brand-new collection features original, easy-to-solve sudoku from Will Shortz, along with an introduction that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Once you’ve mastered the easier sudoku, try the last ten puzzles designed to challenge those who want to give their brains more of a workout. If you’re a crossword fan, a fan of logic puzzles, or just a puzzle lover in general, you will be engrossed and delighted with sudoku!

 

“A puzzling global phenomenon.”

--The Economist

100 Samurai Sudoku Puzzles

Peter Greene

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great fun, almost perfect entertainment. 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

A "samurai" sudoku puzzle consists of a central sudoku with its corners joining it to four additional sudokus, as shown in the cover illustration, a construction which can provide additional fun for the mid-level sudoku addict. The objective is to solve all five overlapping puzzles. In the more difficult puzzles, none of the corner puzzles can be solved in their entirety until additional information is provided as a result of solving part of the central sudoku, and that, in turn, depends on information from all four corner puzzles.

In the early puzzles, the corner sudokus can be done in their entirety, before solving the central puzzle, and occasionally a central puzzle can be completed before the corners are completely filled, making these puzzles fairly easy. The options for a given box within a square are usually limited to pairs of numbers, reducing the challenges. By puzzle #7, however, the author introduces three options per box and the puzzles begin to be more time-consuming and difficult.

As is sometimes the case with regular sudoku puzzles, however, it is occasionally possible to have more than one correct solution to a single sudoku puzzle. When this happens in a corner sudoku, it can prevent the whole samurai puzzle from being solved. Sometimes it is simply the reversal of a couple of numbers which causes the problem. Though the individual sudoku puzzle can be solved without any "errors," this alternative, "correct" solution is wrong in the overall scheme of the whole samurai puzzle. Puzzle addicts may be hard pressed to figure out how to avoid this problem, even when warned that all puzzles should be done in tandem and not separately.

I found nine occasions in which individual sudoku puzzles within the samurai puzzle had more than one solution--puzzles 12, 38, 46, 55, 65, 78, 79, 88, and 89. This was particularly frustrating in the more difficult and more time-consuming puzzles. The remaining 91 puzzles were clever and fun to do, however, and I've already bought, and look forward to doing, the next book in this series. Mary Whipple

Editorial Review:

Sudoku is the number-placing puzzle that is spreading across the world, engaging the minds of people of all ages. The rules are simple, you don't need to know any mathematics, all you need is logic.

Samurai Sudoku puzzles are like traditional Sudoku puzzles but with five interlocking Sudoku grids. This book contains 100 of these massive puzzles, including solutions. All the Samurai Sudoku puzzles in this book are symmetric.

The rule is the same: Each row, column and 3x3 box in each puzzle grid must contain the numbers 1-9 only once. The puzzles start with a few easy ones for warming up, but the majority of the puzzles are hard and can take hours to solve.

This book is for those who feel ordinary Sudoku puzzles are too easy or too quick to solve and want more challenging puzzles. If you solve two of these every week this book will last you a year!

Have fun!

Sudoku 2: Medium to Hard

Xaq Pitkow

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Another must have 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book is one of the best formats. You can easily take it with you anywhere. The puzzles are rated correctly. The only drawback is there is limited space to write "possibles" for the harder grids.

Spiral Binding a Plus 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book for my mother. She has MS and has reduced dexterity in her hands. The book is easy for her to hold onto with the spiral binding since she does not have to hold the book open while working on the puzzle.

Good puzzles but hard to read 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

just a heads up, this is a small book and the puzzles are smaller than i like. the answers in the back are almost impossible to read. if you are young, no problem...if you are over 40 and wear glasses this may be a stuggle. i did like the fact it is very portable.

Type colour 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

While I like the idea of the small size which is especially good for traveling, I find the expert section very difficult to use as the colour of the numbers are a sort of yellow and it does not stand out. I should be black as the other sections or even green or blue. I found difficulty distinguishing the 6 from 8 and reading other figures as well.

Editorial Review:

The Sudoku craze continues, and this unique fold-over notepad is filled with 200 new puzzles for even more hours of highly puzzling fun!