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The Way of Samurai: 101 Samurai Sudoku puzzles

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This is a fun book! The puzzles are a bit harder than those in Peter Greene's samurai sudoku books (which I liked) and thus more of a challenge.

There's a variation in some of the puzzles -- an "X" drawn in each overlapping 9x9 puzzle. On the lines of the X no numbers can repeat. Fewer squares are filled in on these puzzles but they aren't needed because the non-repeating diagonal numbers are an additional clue. I've enjoyed this new kind of puzzle so much, I'm finding the regular samurai puzzles a bit too easy.

I've not made my way though the entire book yet -- but that's good! I got through Mr. Greene's book too fast. This one is slowing me down. Perhaps by the time I'm done, a new one will be out.

The page sizes are good and paper quality is good -- stands up to erasing.

Highly recommended for fans of samuai sudoku.

I really was pleased with the book. The boxes are large enough to work with easily. The puzzles start out a little too easy, but get harder as you work through the levels. I would recomend this book for Sudoku adicts.

If you like Samurai Sudoku at all (and once you've tried it, I don't see why you wouldn't love it!), the books by DJAPE are the best! They start out relatively easy, to work you into it, and move up in difficulty. However, even the easy ones are a bit of a challenge. It's no fun if you can just fill in every number without difficulty. I've tried Samurai books by other authors, and they just don't compare.

I've bought this book twice, takes me almost a year to do all 100. Some of them are tough! Best Samurai puzzle book out there.

Concerning the training of the brain it was 4 years ago stated in the Danish engineering news that research had found that Sudoku is the best training for the brain. Later there has come another "game" that should be a little bit better for the brain.

I've now been solving Sudokus for 5 year, but first 4 years ago, after reading the engineering, I started buying Sudoku books. Normally, nearly each afternoon, I get some time for relaxing on Sudoku, if I don't have mathematical or programming problems to solve, which I like the most.

During the years I've bought 20 books with Suduko, and some of them I've been through 2 times, with a couple of years between. And these books, all bought by my own research in Amazon, as none of the persons I know solve Sudokus, and thereby being able to advise me which books to buy, and being easy or difficult. And of the books, all previous being the size 9*9, I mostly like those by Will Shortz, but probably there are others I will like more, that are for being more difficult.

But in my search after more difficult Sudokus I found a few books with these 5 double 9*9 Sudoku and the immediately 2 month ago ordered the actual book 2. And I must say that I like it very much, and when I've finished this book I without doubt will order the next of these DJAPE.

Until now I've solved half of the 101 in this book, and have used at least 2 hours on each one. First after each time, in the PC, by the use of Excel, having made a copy of the actual one and then with yellow color at the known numbers.