Customer Reviews

More O'Ekaki: Paint by Numbers From Its Inventor

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Although this book has a few puzzles which are more difficult than the first one, it is still way too easy for anyone who has had any experience. Only for beginner-to-medium type solvers.

I love, love, love these kinds of picture puzzles. I have been doing them for a long time. I do not share reviews that these puzzles are too easy. Just right for me, because I do not have the patience to spend hours on one puzzle and I don't like all the counting of tiny squares. I liked the puzzle caption the author gave to each picture, which added another puzzle element. Most of the pictures were quite clever and you could tell what they were. For the most part, the puzzle solving was well designed; such as you get stuck and figure out just one clue, which triggers a bunch more moves.

I didn't like this version at all except for the 'Four-Fifths O'Ekaki' which there were only four.

The squares are too large and you can go through a whole pencil in just a few puzzles. The pictures weren't very good either. If you hold it at arms length you might, with the title, be able to figure out what it is.

I've been a little bored with Sudoku lately, so I bought this book looking for something different. It pretty much fits the bill. I've never tried O'Ekaki before, so I find the puzzles tricky sometimes. I think this puzzle book would be too hard for many Sudoku-ers though.

I purchased this book to have something to do on a plane trip. I was addicted from the start! I am new to O'ekaki so these were challenging enough. I recommend a mechanical pencil and lots of spare lead. Definitely fun and the puzzles get harder as you go so perfect for a beginner.

The puzzles cover a wide range of difficulties but they are all creative and satisfying! The answers are in the back, but you won't need them too often. The nice thing about these puzzles is there are so many ways to solve them.

I actually heard of these kinds of puzzles from a recent Nancy Drew game, but once I played them, I was hooked! I love these puzzles because even though it's a ten dollar book just for puzzles, the puzzles take a while to solve and there are a ton in this book so it will last you a while. I would definitely check these out if you're a hardcore puzzler.

Not my favorite. Too many faces that are difficult to complete. Lots of guessing required and some solutions are non-unique.

I really liked this O'Ekaki. There were more puzzles than I would have liked that you had to make guesses, so that was a problem. But the completed puzzles are mostly really pretty, and so it was worth the effort of getting through those puzzles that weren't so well-constructed.