100 Samurai Sudoku Puzzles (Paperback)

by Peter Greene (Author)

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Product Description
Sudoku is the number-placing puzzle that is spreading across the world, engaging the minds of people of all ages. The rules are simple, you don't need to know any mathematics, all you need is logic.

Samurai Sudoku puzzles are like traditional Sudoku puzzles but with five interlocking Sudoku grids. This book contains 100 of these massive puzzles, including solutions. All the Samurai Sudoku puzzles in this book are symmetric.

The rule is the same: Each row, column and 3x3 box in each puzzle grid must contain the numbers 1-9 only once. The puzzles start with a few easy ones for warming up, but the majority of the puzzles are hard and can take hours to solve.

This book is for those who feel ordinary Sudoku puzzles are too easy or too quick to solve and want more challenging puzzles. If you solve two of these every week this book will last you a year!

Have fun!

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Greene Hill Publishing Limited (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0955141338
• ISBN-13: 978-0955141331
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,615 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super-Sized Grids, June 6, 2006

By	Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Samurai sudoku provides larger grids for sudoku without changing any of the original rules. It still uses a standard 9X9 grid so it should be easy. So ho is the grid bigger if it is 9X9? Simple. Five 9X9 grids are arranged in an X-formation. The center grid shares each corner sub-grid with one of the other four 9X9 grids. So, sometimes, in order to solve one of these overlapping sub-grids you will have to look for clues in two different 9X9 grids.

Other than occasionally having to look at two different 9X9 grids all of your favorite techniques for solving sudoku puzzles should still work. But if you are used to solving grids in only a few minutes, then be prepared to take a little longer to solve all five grids. Samurai sudoku offers a more complex challenge without the puzzler having to learn any new rules or character sets.

One-hundred puzzles make up the book with one puzzle per page. The puzzle takes up almost the entire page and has been printed entirely in shiny bold. This can be a little annoying to look at due to the complexity of the grid but puzzlers should get used to it quickly. The puzzles increase in difficulty as the book progresses and all puzzles are symmetric. Solutions are given at the end of the book and are also in shiny bold. A good addition to the sudoku family.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Samurai Sudoku book!, December 14, 2005

By	Cecilia28 - See all my reviews

Finally there is a book out with only Samurai Sudoku puzzles - 100 of them! The puzzles are all symmetric and the difficulty ranges from medium to really really tough. Even one of these puzzles takes quite some time to solve. Since each Samurai Sudoku puzzle is like 4.5 Sudoku puzzles, these puzzles are equivalent to 450 ordinary Sudoku puzzles, while still being a handy format. That's very good value for money! I would recommend this to anyone who likes Sudoku and want a bit of a challenge.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book. , January 3, 2007

By	book girl (Bloomington, Indiana) - See all my reviews

I found this book to be really fun. I bought it for my boyfriend's birthday, and we ended up altenating on the puzzles. The puzzles seemed a little too easy for both of us, so I purchased another similar book, with better results. On the whole, if you enjoy regular sudoku, but feel ready for a new challenge, this book may be just the right fit. If you have already gotten into samurai sudoku, the book may be too easy.