Jumbo Sudoku [Paperback]

Michael Mepham (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Time Home Entertainment (January 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933405392
• ISBN-13: 978-1933405391
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.5 x 10.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,032,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not jumbo at all, April 12, 2006

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Phyllis McKenzie - See all my reviews
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I ordered 2 copies of this, based on how much I love Mepham's "Total Sudoku" -- but I wish I hadn't. It has 2 puzzles per page instead of one large puzzle per page as shown on the cover. Mepham's "Total Sudoku" has one puzzle per page -- which is wonderful. There is no reason to want an awkward 8 X 10 page except to get a really big grid. If I'm going to have half-page-size puzzles, give me a half-page-size book that is easier to hold. And this does not have any 16 by 16 puzzles, which are my favorites. And the answer grids are TINY.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Su Doku, January 9, 2006

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Michael (Earth) - See all my reviews

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This is a great sudoku book im a sudoku addict. I own three and this is my favorite. My only complaint is that puzzles are random in difficulty(not in order)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction to the Game of Sudoku, December 4, 2006

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Jan Peczkis "Scholar and Thinker" (Chicago IL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jumbo Sudoku (Paperback)

Michael Mepham provides this workbook full of Sudoku puzzles. They range from easy to, in his words, fiendish. Each puzzle has a solution printed in the back. While there are two puzzles per page, they are nevertheless bigger than those in newspapers, and certainly bigger than those in most if not all electronic Sudoku kits. There are some unconventional Sudoku puzzles, including those which form an X-shape of five nested Sudoku sub-puzzles.

Some tips are given in the beginning of the book for the solving of Sudoku puzzles. These include the use of clues provided by numbers that are remote from each other on the puzzle. For very difficult situations, Mepham recommends that the puzzle-solver narrow a spot to two possibilities, then take a guess at one of the two numbers and see if it creates a self-consistent solution.