Review
"A puzzling global phenomenon"
--The Economist
"The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935."
--The Times of London
"England's most addictive newspaper puzzle."
--New York magazine
"The latest craze in games"
- BBC News
"Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!"
--The Times of London
"Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s."
- The Daily Telegraph
"Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids."
--Associated Press
"Forget crosswords."
--The Christian Science Monitor
From the Back Cover
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? TEST YOUR WITS WITH SUDOKU!
Calling crossword enthusiasts, logic puzzle aficionados, or any lover of a good puzzle: here is the latest sensation---sudoku! New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz presents the fourth volume of Pocket Sudoku---a fun collection of 150 sudoku puzzles, ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging. Anyone can do sudoku! There's just one simple rule: Fill in the empty boxes in the nine-by-nine grid, so that every row, column, and three-by-three square contains the numbers 1 through 9, without repeating. That's it! See for yourself what all the rage is about. Once you try one sudoku, you'll want to try them all!