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Sudoku: Easy To Hard (Soduko #03)

by Will Shortz

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 understand — 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 sudoku ranging from effortlessly easy to devilishly difficult, along with an introduction from Will Shortz that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Plus, the last five bonus puzzles in the book are giants — more than 50 percent larger and correspondingly more fun to solve! 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!

Review:

"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

Review:

"Forget crosswords." The Christian Science Monitor

Review:

"A puzzling global phenomenon." The Economist

Review:

"The latest craze in games." BBC News

Synopsis:

THE HOTTEST CRAZE IN PUZZLES!
 
“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 understand---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 sudoku ranging from effortlessly easy to devilishly difficult, along with an introduction from Will Shortz that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Plus, the last five bonus puzzles in the book are giants---more than 50 percent larger and correspondingly more fun to solve! 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

Will Shortz has been crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Will can be reached at www.crosswordtournament.com.

About the Author

Will Shortz has been crossword editor of the New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Will can be reached at www.crosswordtournament.com.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312355043
Subtitle:
100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles
Author:
Shortz, Will
Other:
Pzzl Com
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Subject:
Puzzles
Subject:
Logic & Brain Teasers
Subject:
Sudoku
Series:
Sudoku Easy to Hard
Series Volume:
03
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
9.23x6.14x.35 in. .33 lbs.

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