D. J. Ape
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Total reviews: 15
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Great primer but impossible puzzles 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
I've completed the Mensa Nasty series of regular Sudoku, Collins's Killer Sudoku Book 1, and all levels of Kakuros that appear in the backs of other books I've bought, so I'd like to think I'm fairly skilled. But I got NOWHERE in this book. As another reviewer says, pretty much the only technique available to you is Rule of 45. Very minimal opportunity to use cages, I/O's, or significant number combinations. I assumed there had to be some major breakthrough technique that I wasn't aware of and searched everywhere on the web to find it. But evidently the only techniques that exist are the ones explained very clearly in the beginning of this book. But buy it for that reason alone, and then get Collins's Killer Sudoku book. You'll have much more fun.
Editorial Review:
Introduced by The Times, the British publisher who pioneered the sudoku craze, the “killer sudoku” poses a double challenge: the basic rules of sudoku still apply, but puzzles initially have no numbers showing. All that is known is the sum of the numbers inside irregular boxes, called cages, in which the classic 9 x 9 sudoku grid is subdivided. Killer Sudoku contains 101 of these brain-busters grouped into six levels of difficulty. The introduction explains the basic techniques needed to solve these new versions of the world's most popular number puzzle.
