Giant Book of Sudoku: 1,001 Sudoku Puzzles [Paperback]

Colin Yarnall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 2006

Expert tips on solving these extraordinarily popular puzzles.

In September 2005 CNN reported: "According to the most recent list of best-selling books tracked by USA Today, seven of the top 100 were compilations of Sudoku puzzles." This ever-expanding market hungers for more new books on Sudoku.

Giant Book of Sudoku is the most comprehensive Sudoku book, with 1,001 brand new puzzles organized in seven skill levels from very easy to very difficult. Already a great value for the number of its puzzles, this book also shows how to improve puzzle-solving skills so essential for any Sudoku player -- from the novice to the experienced to the truly obsessed.

A step-by-step guide to solving Sudoku describes the five rules of logic basic to the game -- missing numbers, single candidates, unique candidates, linked pairs, and linked triples -- and how to apply them. The book includes 300 pages of puzzles, with dozens of expert tips and techniques.

Giant Book of Sudoku will tweak the interest of every member of the ever-growing ranks of Sudoku aficionados.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Colin Yarnall is a software engineer who, over the years, has designed a number of mechanical puzzles. His interest in Sudoku was awakened when he saw the puzzle described on television. This inspired him to write software to both generate and solve these puzzles. In the process he discovered the techniques required to solve Sudoku puzzles manually, which he shares with readers of this book.

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This Book

There are 1,001 Sudoku puzzles to be found within these pages, split into five different levels:

200 very easy puzzles
200 easy puzzles
200 medium puzzles
200 difficult puzzles
201 very difficult puzzles

Unlike most other Suduko books, the puzzles in this book are designed to get gradually harder as you progress. Therefore, the puzzles at the end of a level are tougher to complete than those at the start. This will enable you to improve as you work your way through the book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Firefly Books (September 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554072255
• ISBN-13: 978-1554072255
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,384,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Error filled, January 6, 2008

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Spencer Koppel "Puzzling geek" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant Book of Sudoku: 1,001 Sudoku Puzzles (Paperback)

OK, the simple puzzles are fine. But once you graduate to those that require any skill, they're full of errors. I hate working on a puzzle that, at some point requires you to guess. And worse, that has more than one solution. Why? If you put your name to a book, you're implying two things: You know about the subject, and you've edited it for accuracy. If the author is indeed knowledgeable, he/she should have tested them (or had a staff do it). If he had done so, he would have found that, after the first few hundred puzzles, approximately half are unsolveable either because you reach a point where you have to guess, or because there's more than one correct solution. Stick to the books edited by Wil Shortz to be certain they don't contain errors.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real Giant.. Good for addicts :), June 27, 2007

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Hadeel Almehri (Jamaica, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant Book of Sudoku: 1,001 Sudoku Puzzles (Paperback)

Really giant book with 2 puzzles in each page. My main disappointment is the low recycled paper quality and the mistakes in few of the puzzles in the 1 and 2 stars level. I expected it to be well prepared by an expert!! Overall, it's worth what you paid for.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so Great, August 7, 2009

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Amanda A. Hemmer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant Book of Sudoku: 1,001 Sudoku Puzzles (Paperback)

I got the book quickly and it appeared in great condition. But once I started doing the puzzles I noticed that tons of puzzles were incorrect. They would be defective (two 2's in a row, or two 9 ins one box).