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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and challenging alternative to Sudoku, June 6, 2009
This review is from: Fill-In Paint-doku (Conceptis Puzzles) (Spiral-bound)
Bored with Sudoku? "Paint-doku" is a fun and challenging alternative. The rules are simple - the numbered boxes in a grid correspond to the number of adjacent boxes that will be shaded - but figuring out which of the adjacent boxes are shaded is a great logic exercise. Not only does it challenge your spatial conception, but it also requires you to weigh options. Conceptis is a great puzzle maker, and the puzzles in this book are very well researched. As you're working a puzzle, you may think you've hit a dead end, but you can be confident that it's because you've made an error or aren't seeing the intersecting clues, not that there aren't sufficient clues in the puzzle itself. This book has over 100 puzzles, and most took me 1-2 hours to complete. Fantastic for long plane flights. At the end of the day, this is really just a complex coloring book for adults - and what could be better than that? I enjoyed most of the puzzles over a very long business trip so much that I'm ordering a second book for my next trip!
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Title is misleading; puzzles are very challenging; nice travel size, June 27, 2009
This review is from: Fill-In Paint-doku (Conceptis Puzzles) (Spiral-bound)
About a year and a half ago, Conceptis released a book of griddlers (Hanjie, paint by numbers) entitled "Paint-Doku." Imagine my joy when they released this travel sized version! The only thing that concerned me was that this one was called "Fill In Paint-Doku." It should have concerned me more than it did, because... WARNING: THESE ARE NOT HANJIE / GRIDDLER / NONOGRAM PUZZLES. They are what are better known at [...] as Fill-A-Pix puzzles in which you must determine which neighboring squares must be colored in. The game is sort of a pencil and paper minesweeper. Feeling a bit unsure as to what to do, I thought "Oh well, give them a try, maybe you'll 'get it' and like this too." I'm glad the book doesn't cost any more than it does. I must be the world's biggest idiot, because after the initial phase of x'ing out zeros and shading in 9 squares, I just simply can't get much further along....at least not yet. I found them to be frustrating, annoying, ridiculously lengthy hard puzzles. Difficulty level is another beef of mine with the book; there is NO indication of which puzzles are "easy" and which are "hard", even though you are promised a variety of levels. All that said, I can see where fans of Fill-A-Pix puzzles would rejoice. The book is great for taking with you in the car, and I can only pray they intend to release a similar travel size version of Hanjie puzzles sometime in the future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
awesome!, January 22, 2010
This review is from: Fill-In Paint-doku (Conceptis Puzzles) (Spiral-bound)
This is my favorite type of puzzle hands down. I originally purchased the book because I enjoy the other type of "paint-doku" puzzles. (By the way, for those who enjoy the paint-doku, there's a great download available - do a search of "japanese mosaic puzzles" - I downloaded mine from divogames. It has black and white puzzles, and colored puzzles, plus you can make your own.) Once I figured out how these new puzzles worked, I was addicted. My ONLY complaint is that there are no other puzzle books like it on the market. I'm having to erase old puzzles just so I can do them again because I've run out! PLEASE come out with another fill-in paint-doku!!!!
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