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Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All

 
 
Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All
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Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All

Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won’t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games magazine!

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Product Details:
Author: Peter Gordon
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Sterling
Publication Date: August 28, 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 1402740115
Package Length: 9.9 inches
Package Width: 7.0 inches
Package Height: 0.7 inches
Package Weight: 1.28 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 35 reviews
 
 

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3Mensa Guide for Idiots  Nov 13, 2009
Peter Gordon spends a lot of time walking you thru the sample puzzles, and his logic works on the example.

However, I don't think Peter Gordon did a very good job explaining the what to look for when you are trying to determine when a certain technique will work.

Example: How do you spot an X-Wing or swordfish opportunity when there are lots of candidates to chose from.
Example: Is there an eaxy way to spot which number is a good candidate for X-wing, etc. His samples are obviously well thought out, but I was hoping to have a quick-easy way to spot when a certain application or number is a good starting point.

I guess I was looking for some concrete rules for when to apply a technique:
Example: X-Wing only works when there are two candidates in one column which align (in same row) with two candidates in another column.

CB

4Excellent Sudoku solver  Jul 15, 2009
Excellent book - thoroughly covering many ways to solve Sudoku puzzles. Lots of puzzles to complete, but very small squares for writing in cell/row number to assist in solving.

3Good tips  May 04, 2009
It teaches good methods but it's rather skimpy on explanations; 90% of the book is more puzzles. I guess if I read carefully the ad, the main ingredient is 100's of puzzles...
Poor quality of binding, pages come loose easily.

5Excellent for advanced techniques  Jan 19, 2009
This book has helped me learn new methods for solving some of the harder Sudoku puzzles that have in the past required me to do a "what-if" to break a dead lock. Many of the techniques I already knew, though not by any name, but some of the advanced techniques were totally new to me and help round out my solving skills. Plus there's a lot of good puzzles in the book to practice these techniques.

5Sudoku  Dec 14, 2008
Wow, on the more difficult puzzles this has been helpful. On my own before purchasing this book I had figured out how to solve many puzzles on my own. This has shown me some shortcuts to use and allows me to practice. Great book, one I would say is worth the money.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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