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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Fun, but could have been more challenging Dec 25, 2007
By E. G. Higgins
I enjoyed this collection of puzzles. I don't think the puzzles are as hard as the author claims, "all the puzzles in this book are hard" maybe 20% are more involved; it is true that the last third of the puzzles are more difficult than the fist third, but it took me only 30 minutes to do puzzle number 100.
On the plus side, the author managed to avoid all of those annoying "choose a number and see what happens" tricks that some sudoku books are full of. A number of the puzzles had some very interesting logic sequences which were fun.
The secret to Samurai Sudoku is the central puzzle; solve it and the puzzle reduces to 4 independent sudoku puzzles. I believe that in most cases, once the central puzzle was solved, the remaining puzzles were much too easy. The author typically puts 30+ clues in the outer puzzles. I really think they should have been reduced to lower 20 or high teens.
Nonetheless, I consider this a book worth purchasing, it took me just under two months to finish the book in off hours and at bedtime, and how can you go wrong with two months of fun for only $9.99.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 As good as the first book! Jan 30, 2008
By Victoria
Like the first volume, Peter Greene's 2nd book of samurai sudoku puzzles is great fun! The puzzle are symmetrical and pleasing to the senses. The page size is comfortable for working the large puzzles and the paper is a good for the inevitable erasures. Very few of the puzzles leave you with several sets of pairs, which result in having to guess and check.
Mr. Greene says if you do two puzzles a week, the book will last almost a year. Well, who can be limited to two a week? Maybe I'm just getting better at doing these puzzles, but I got through the whole book in a couple or three months.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Killer Sudoku Apr 01, 2010
By B. Hicks
Can't beat these puzzles for hours of fun. I love these. 5 in one, how can you go wrong.
great sudoku book May 01, 2012
By Jan
This is my first copy of this sudoku puzzle book. I am on puzzle 22 and they have been somewhat easy so far. The back is suppose to be hard but I have not gone back there to try one. So far I really like this book. Glad I found it.
 Not challenging puzzles Oct 24, 2011
By Perla
I bought the book because it said "hard puzzles" - If you are addicted to Sudoku, the first 25 puzzles are not challenging at all - you can complete them in less than 20 minutes. The rest are just medium level
The book is presented nicely and the paper is good quality - the book is for beginners, maybe intermediate level
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