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 Really easy puzzles - title is misleading Aug 29, 2010
I agree with other reviewers, these are really simple puzzles. I have just started doing puzzles from a weekly newspaper,
and these are far simpler than their "medium". I would return it if I had not written in it!
Skip this one Jun 19, 2010
This book is much easier than brown belt, level 3. Skip it and go to black belt, level 2.
Pretty Tame Stuff Apr 03, 2010
All things relative, of course, but this hardly earns the "black belt" moniker, it's at the level of Will Shorts' "Moderate" puzzles. You can solve them by simple scanning - strictly hunt and peck. In fairness, I have only done the first few and the last one - hoping it got progressively harder. But it didn't. If you want not-very-challenging puzzles, it's a good value, but, if like me, you expect something rigorous behind the name "black belt," move on.
 fun puzzles Jul 27, 2009
Ok, so they're not knuckle crackers, but I found them fun to do and can completed within a reasonable amount of time. I agree that a "hard" puzzle in the newspaper is tougher than these, but I get bored writing endless pssible combinations in empty squares with exceptionally tough newspaper puzzles. This is a great book for killing time during an appointment or waiting for a flight. I give it 5 stars because I enjoyed it.
Pedestrian Jun 23, 2009
Maybe I shouldn't have expected much for $6.95. When something advances itself as "Super-Tough," you'd think the hardest puzzle might take more than 5 minutes. In about an hour's work, I did the first 12 and the last 3, hoping the ones at the end might provide more of a challenge. I was wrong.
The only reasonable explanation is that an editor mislabeled a White Belt Sudoku volume. The toughest puzzles still require only two or three of the basic tricks a beginner or early intermediate solver might have recently learned. If you've done more than a few dozen puzzles before opening this book, no penciling, inferences, or memory tricks will be required. Seek such stimulation elsewhere. Anything edited by Will Shortz, among others, will provide dramatically better bang for the buck.
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