Synopses & Reviews
CALLING NEWCOMERS AND AFFICIONADOS ALIKE: PLAY THE SUDOKU GAME AT INCREASING SKILL LEVELS WITH
EASY TO HARD SUDOKU
If you haven't already discovered the number puzzle that The New York Post calls "diabolically addictive," you'll soon discover that playing sudoku is like eating potato chips: you can't stop with just one!
Here you'll find 150 puzzles--presented by New York Times crossword editor and bestselling author Will Shortz--to whet your appetite, boggle your brain, and improve your playing skills at any level. The object is to fill the puzzle grid with numbers so that every row, column, and three-by-three square contains the digits 1 through 9, without repeating. Once you get the hang of it, playing sudoku can be downright hypnotic as you work the numbers around the grid. And experts can enjoy the trying to solve the puzzles faster and faster!
Review
"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
If you haven't already discovered the number puzzle that
The New York Post calls "diabolically addictive," you'll soon discover that playing sudoku is like eating potato chips: you can't stop with just one!
Here you'll find 150 puzzles--presented by New York Times crossword editor and bestselling author Will Shortz--to whet your appetite, boggle your brain, and improve your playing skills at any level. The object is to fill the puzzle grid with numbers so that every row, column, and three-by-three square contains the digits 1 through 9, without repeating. Once you get the hang of it, playing sudoku can be downright hypnotic as you work the numbers around the grid. And experts can enjoy the trying to solve the puzzles faster and faster!
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.