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HomeSudoku BooksThe Everything Giant Sudoku Book: Over 300 Puzzles with Instructions for Solving (Everything: Sports and Hobbies) |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Sudoku is great!` Dec 26, 2005
I love Sudoku and this book! I just received it today from my best friend and we were solving it at my house, and now I'm working on it. I've already solved one! Yay! They're really challenging but very fun and great to get the brain moving.
Have fun with it!
~Livi~
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 This Sudoku book is a little late at this point May 21, 2006
By J. Guild
Overall,this Sudoku book is a bit of "a dollar short and a day late". A year ago,it might have warranted a 4 Star,but barely.
To give it credit,it does show that the Sudoku puzzle was not invented by the Japanese,but by Howard Garnes,a retired architect and introduced at at an American Puzzle convention in 1974 and later in Dell's Mental Puzzles and Word Games as "Number Place" in 1979.It was taken to Japan in 1980,became popular and brought back by Wayne Gould.
The book comes up short in solving methods and hints; which are very minimal.
The puzzle size is good;at about 4 X 4 inches.The paper quality is good;the cover is soft with a glued binding.There are 3 levels of difficulty in the 300 puzzles.
The price would have been fair a year ago,but in comparison to the many other Sudoku books available ,it is now too pricey. A brief look around will result in finding many books at greatly reduced prices.The old laws of Supply and Demand are flexing their muscles.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Great sudoku book Feb 23, 2006
By L. R. Johnson
Great variety - from easy to challenging. The grids are an ideal size to scribble cheat notes within the cells. All puzzles are numeric.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Not the hardest of the puzzles, but certainly math problems that anyone can do May 13, 2007
By Charles Ashbacher
Sudoku is a puzzle that is very simple in form and has taken the world by storm. A nine-by-nine matrix is created and split into nine different three-by-three sections. Each three-by-three section is to contain the numbers one through nine and no row or column must have more than one instance of the same number. You are given some of the entries and the goal is to fill in the remaining entries.
This book is a collection of 300 such puzzles and solutions are included at the end. The first eight pages are a history of the puzzle as well as a description of solution strategies. They are fairly simple and easy to understand, which in part explains why the puzzle is so popular. To appeal to a mass audience, the masses must be able to understand and solve the puzzle.
I enjoyed working the few puzzles that I went through. While not hard, they do require that you think and that is always a good thing to do. My thirteen year old daughter Katrina also loves doing these puzzles, she does them by the hour. I don't think it is a coincidence that her math grades have gone up since she started working them.
Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission
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