Synopses & Reviews
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SUDOKU FOR THE WEEKEND
Problem-solving can provide hours of entertainment with this collection of 150 puzzles from New York Times crossword editor and bestselling author Will Shortz. If you haven't already discovered the game that CNN calls "maddeningly addictive," you'll soon find out that playing sudoku is like eating potato chips: You can't stop with just one!
Review
"A puzzling global phenomenon"
--The Economist
"The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935."
--The Times of London
"England's most addictive newspaper puzzle."
--New York magazine
"The latest craze in games"
- BBC News
"Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!"
--The Times of London
"Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s."
- The Daily Telegraph
"Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids."
--Associated Press
"Forget crosswords."
--The Christian Science Monitor
Review
"What gives sudoku brain cred? Dozens of book versions of the game carry the august authorship of Will Shortz, the
New York Times crossword editor."--
Time magazine
"Diabolically addictive."--The New York Post
"A puzzling global phenomenon."--The Economist
"The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935. Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!"--The Times of London
"England's most addictive newspaper puzzle."--New York magazine
"The latest craze in games."--BBC News
"Sudoku are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s."--The Daily Telegraph
"Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids."--Associated Press
"Forget crosswords."--The Christian Science Monitor
Synopsis
Saturday, Sunday, Sudoku!
Forget mowing the lawn or doing the laundry. It's the weekend, and that means rest, relaxation, and indulging in sudoku, the puzzling craze that is sweeping America.
Features:
- 100 all-new addictive sudoku
- Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
- Big grids with lots of space for easy solving
Synopsis
Saturday, Sunday, Sudoku!
Forget mowing the lawn or doing the laundry. It's the weekend, and that means rest, relaxation, and indulging in sudoku, the puzzling craze that is sweeping America.
Features:
· 100 all-new addictive sudoku
· Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
· Big grids with lots of space for easy solving
Synopsis
Saturday, Sunday, Sudoku!
Forget mowing the lawn or doing the laundry. It's the weekend, and that means rest, relaxation, and indulging in sudoku, the puzzling craze that is sweeping America.
Features:
· 100 all-new addictive sudoku
· Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
· Big grids with lots of space for easy solving
Synopsis
Problem-solving can provide hours of entertainment with this collection of 150 puzzles from New York Times crossword editor and bestselling author Will Shortz. If you haven't already discovered the game that CNN calls "maddeningly addictive," you'll soon find out that playing sudoku is like eating potato chips: You can't stop with just one!
About the Author
Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPRs Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.