The Essential Book of Su Doku, Volume 3: Advanced: The World's Most Popular Puzzle Game [Paperback]

Alastair Chisholm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 2005

Another 201 Puzzles, 5 Seriously Advanced Levels of Difficulty!

The incredible popularity of Su Doku shows no sign of slowing and for every fan of the fascinating number game, The Essential Book of Su Doku Volume 3: Advanced will provide further hours of captivating fun -- with the most challenging puzzles yet.

The super-difficult puzzles created especially for this book will tax even the most agile Su Doku brains and leave people begging for mercy. Fiendishly devised for maximum fun, these puzzles are certain to take your Su Doku skills to new heights.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books; Original edition (October 11, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743291689
• ISBN-13: 978-0743291682
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #968,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasingly challenging puzzles, December 9, 2006

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jpendle (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Essential Book of Su Doku, Volume 3: Advanced: The World's Most Popular Puzzle Game (Paperback)

This is the best book of harder sudoku that I've seen. The puzzles appear to be hand-created, unlike the randomly created junk found in some other books. In many difficult puzzles, the solver is reduced to penciling in possibles fairly early on, then searching through lots of tiny numbers for clues. In this book that's rarely necessary (and least in Levels 1-4, which is as far as I've gotten.) The book has a nice small format, and the paper is very white and of excellent quality. All in all, highly satisfactory!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally...a really challenging Su Doku puzzle book!, July 10, 2006

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Doxie Mom X 4 (Egg Harbor City, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Book of Su Doku, Volume 3: Advanced: The World's Most Popular Puzzle Game (Paperback)

Level 1 of this book is like level 5 on the Vol 1 book of the same title. I can only solve about half of the level 5s in this book. These puzzles are excellent for those who have mastered the medium and hard level puzzles in most newspapers. But be warned, these are hard compared to vol. 1. I can't wait for the next advanced one. I may even buy a second copy of Vol. 3 since I don't remember the answers anyway!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book of Sudoku Puzzles!, November 19, 2007

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E. Vallee (Norfolk, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Book of Su Doku, Volume 3: Advanced: The World's Most Popular Puzzle Game (Paperback)

I am almost finished with this book. I've been nibbling away at it for a long time and am asking for another copy for Christmas so I can start the fun all over again. The size of the book is perfect and the paper quality is perfect. All the puzzles are interesting and challenging, unlike The Essential Book of Su Doku, Volume 2 (Don't waste your money on that one - even the level 5's are boring to do!) I do wish this author/publisher would put out another one like it.