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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.
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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.

Simon and Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Book #13: The Biggest and the Best (Simon and Schuster's Super Crossword Puzzle Books)

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

Really makes you think! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Like all the books in this series, these are serious puzzles. They make you put on your thinking cap. Great book

S & s SUPER CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOKS 10, 12 AND 13 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

EXCELLENT I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN TEAR OUT A PAGE WITHOUT TEARING UP THE WHOLE BOOK

great variety 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This series has a great variety of challenging crossword puzzles. Perfect for killing time on a Sunday afternoon, but be prepared to think, they are not just easy puzzles. Nice selection of puzzles, defientely recommend for the price.

Simon & Schuster - THE authority on quality crosswords 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

For the intermediate to advanced crossword puzzle enthusiast, look no further than these puzzles published by Simon and Schuster. Hundreds of hours of challenging puzzle fun, featuring themed crosswords! Several volumes are available - all time well spent.

simon & schuster's super crossword book 3 out of 5 stars.
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These are indeed challeging puzzles but I am improving as I go through the book. I love that the pages are perforated and the y can be easily removed, especially for the ones on the left hand pages. I can't wait to finish and try some of the other volumes!

Merriam-webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary (Crossword)

Merriam-Webster

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Best crossword dictionary 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I truly enjoy the crossword dictionary. It is very bulky, but that's because it has thousands of word definitions. I saw them at Target and they were a few dollars more. Great buy through amazon!

Not Great 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This crossword dictionary is somewhat helpful. I like that it's large and easy to read. I also like that alternate words are listed by length. I bought this because it's a Merriam - Webster, a name I've always associated with good quality. However, I'm highly dissatisfied with the dictionary. It promotes itself as one of the most comprehensive crossword dictionaries available yet some basic words are not even included. I would not recommend this at all.

Helpful, not great 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

My husband & I have discovered a newfound love for crossword puzzles and, well, needed some help. This dictionary was about 40-50% helpful when we absolutely had to "cheat". We did find a lot of other useful trivia that we learned while looking for answers. Not bad, not the best. Just average and okay. Price was about what it was worth.

Editorial Review:

New edition! Created especially for crossword puzzle lovers. 325,000 clues and answer words include 75,000 new words. Organized alphabetically and by number of letters. Newly formatted for greater legibility and ease of use, with comphrehensive coverage of "crosswordese", the words most encountered by puzzlers.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles Volume 33: 50 Sunday Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

I am an Addict 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I have been addicted to NY Times Sunday crosswords for years. This collection is no let-down. My only complaint? Not enough of them! I ordered the Omnibus collection with this: 500 puzzles! You can't go wrong with any of the NY Times crossword publications.

Love this series 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love the New York Times Crosswords, and their series of spiral-bound collections are great for travel. Most paperback crossword books are difficult to keep open as you fill in the crosswords. These spiral-bound books, however, allow you to fold the book at the puzzle you're currently working on, and provide a relatively hard surface to write on as well. Plus, they are relatively slim, so they don't take up much space in a suitcase or carry-on bag. I recently purchased the New York Times little "black and white" crossword book - although the length and width are much smaller, the book itself is thicker, so overall it's bulkier and less convenient to carry. I'll stick with the larger spiral-bound versions.

Editorial Review:

The first, and still the best!

The New York Times Sunday crossword debuted in 1942, and ever since has remained the nation’s favorite puzzle. With giant-size grids, inventive themes and clever construction, the Sunday Times crossword is more popular than ever before under legendary editor Will Shortz! This thirty-third collection of the Sunday puzzles features:
* Fifty New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by Will Shortz
* Puzzles over 50% bigger than the weekday crosswords
* Covered spiral binding for easy stay-flat solving.

The New York Times Weekend in the Country Crossword Puzzles: 200 Relaxing Puzzles (New York Times Crossword Puzzles)

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Enjoying the Crossword Puzzle 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is my review of "Weekend in the Country Crossword Puzzles."

When I retired three years ago after 45 years of working, I got serious with solving crossword puzzles. From my local newspaper I solve five easy puzzles every week, along with three large, complex puzzles. I save extras of the complex ones to work on again in three or four months.

But it's never enough puzzles! So, I buy puzzle books now. Not just ANY puzzle books, either! Will Shortz has provided us with many wonderful crossword puzzles in The New York Times as well as in books that we can buy and take on trips with us. So it is with me! I have two of his special crossword books and the latest one is "Weekend in the Country Crossword Puzzles" published by The New York Times. There are 200 puzzles in this book. It is filled with a variety of puzzles according to their difficulty in solving. The categories are keyed with stars. The "Monday" puzzles are the easiest with one star. "Tuesday" puzzles are keyed with two stars--Wednesday, 3 stars, Thursday, 4 stars, Friday, 5 stars, and finally on Saturday, 6 stars. And yes, the 6-star puzzles are really hard to solve.

I highly recommend this crossword puzzle book to all serious and not-so-serious crossword puzzlers out there.

Editorial Review:

With the workweek over and a long, relaxing weekend stretching delightfully ahead, what better way to ease the mind and soothe the soul than with a crossword puzzle? Or better yet, two hundred of them?

The New York Times and its crossword puzzle editor, Will Shortz, bring you this volume, overflowing with selected crosswords from the pages of the Times, puzzles free of the obscure trivia of older crosswords, and full of modern, fresh vocabulary and fun wordplay.

The New York Times Monday Through Friday Crossword Puzzles Volume 2: Easy to Tough Crossword Puzzles

The New York Times, The New York Times

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great gift for the addicted. 5 out of 5 stars.
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After seeing the movie "Wordplay," my wife became interested in solving the NY Times crossword puzzle and is now addicted. This book was the perfect gift for a vacation to a place where getting the newspaper is not so easy.

maddening puzzles 3 out of 5 stars.
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These puzzles are HARD! Monday through Wednesday aren't bad, but Thursday and Friday are impossible. Very challenging, and if you are a NYTimes puzzle fan, they will not disappoint.

Typical New York Times Quality 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This is another in the excellent series of New York Times crossword puzzle books. What else is there to say?

Never a Loss for Words 4 out of 5 stars.
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Although I can't claim to be the most successful cruciverbalist, I always try to find an unmarked crossword in airline magazines to play. Because they're easy. And that's why I like this collection of crosswords, because the NYT puzzles get harder as the week goes on. I can stick to early weekdays and leave the end-of-week crosswords to the more adroit. These are 15x15 size puzzles, not the 20+ grids the Times puts out on weekends for wordplay pros. Whatever your level, you'll find puzzles to suit your capabilities and others to challenge you onwards.

Editorial Review:

Serious solvers know that the puzzles in The New York Times get harder as the week goes on. From an easy Monday to a downright difficult Friday puzzle, this brand new collection is sure to challenge you with every passing day. See how far you can get!*50 daily size puzzles*First appearance of these puzzles in book form*Covered spiral binding

The Crossword Puzzler's Handbook: 1000 People, Places, and Things You Need to Know to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Crossword addicts are always in search of a new and better tool to boost their solving skills—and the answer’s not yet another dictionary. This handbook is something a lot more valuable: a comprehensive compilation of “cross weirds.” These are the words we don’t often hear in general conversation, but they do tend to pop up in crosswords frequently, either because they use the most common letters of the alphabet or are featured in some of the most popular subjects. So it’s fantastically helpful when you need to figure out who starred in that 1933 film or name an island in the Central Philippines.
Organized by subject, this collection is broken down into three sections: People, Places, and Things. You’ll find invaluable clue-solvers in such categories as Abstract Ideas; Actors and Actresses; Adjectives; Bodies of Water; Cities and Towns; Folklore; Foreign Words; Health, Medical Care, and Sickness; Music; Transportation; and many, many more.
You can either use this as a reference when an answer’s on the tip of your tongue (but you just can’t get it), or as a handy study guide. The sturdy reinforced binding will keep it in great shape for years of service—and the small size makes it perfect to take anywhere!

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

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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!

The New York Times Quick and Easy Crossword Puzzles

Will Shortz

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great crosswords for novices 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

First off, I will say that I casually do crosswords. I do the New York Times most Mondays and some Tuesdays as they easier than their mid- to late-week counterparts. The New York Times crossword puzzles get increasingly more difficult each day starting on Monday. I am not a super solver, but enjoy working through these puzzles and ones from other newspapers when able.

This collection has crosswords that were originally printed on both Mondays and Tuesdays. The puzzles were just challenging enough for my skill level and knowledge level, but easy enough that I could make considerable progress on the puzzles. I found this book a great way to pass some time while on breaks at work or while watching reruns on television. There are 130 puzzles in this collection so needless to say this book can keep you busy for quite some time. I recommend this book for people who enjoy the thrill of solving crossword puzzles while still being challenged some. These puzzles are not difficult, but they are not a piece of cake, either. Hard-core solvers will probably not find much enjoyment in these puzzles.

Editorial Review:

From the #1 name in crosswords-The New York Times--and Will Shortz, "the crossword king" (Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes), comes another thrilling book of crosswords. These 130 New York Times crosswords have been chosen from puzzles published in the Monday and Tuesday editions of the paper, and features the easiest and most popular puzzles for readers looking for the satisfaction of successful solving. Whether you're waiting for your flight to take off, sipping an espresso at the coffee bar, or lying by the poolside, this compact edition easily fits into your purse or briefcase so that it can go wherever you go!

USA Today Crossword: 200 Puzzles from the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper

USA Today

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Puzzles Galore 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book is exactly what you think it will be; good puzzles, moderate difficulty. Great way to relax at the beach or kill time on a plane or other lengthy travel sojourn.

puzzles good/format bad 3 out of 5 stars.
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USA Today is always consistent with the content of their puzzles. This book would be perfect with a spiral binding instead.