Will Shortz Presents The Monster Book of Sudoku for Kids: 150 Fun Puzzles [Paperback]

Will Shortz (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Will Shortz Presents...

Sudoku has taken America by storm! Now kids can enjoy the puzzle that keeps their parents' minds racing and pencils sharpened.  This edition, designed for children 8 and up, begins with a sudoku lesson from Will Shortz and very easy 4 x 4 grids to warm up.  Then young solvers advance to more challenging 6 x 6 grids and finally tradition 9 x 9 sudoku puzzles.
   
Features:
· 150 all-new sudoku puzzles
· Four difficulty levels including smaller "kid grids" 
· Fun commentary and illustrations
· Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
· Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

Editorial Reviews

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

About the Author

Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312368429
• ISBN-13: 978-0312368425
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Sudoku
  • #12 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Logic & Brain Teasers
  • #20 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Sudoku

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, August 16, 2007

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Peter Kattan (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Will Shortz Presents The Monster Book of Sudoku for Kids: 150 Fun Puzzles (Paperback)

This is a great book on Sudoku for kids. The book includes 150 puzzles. The puzzles are of various sizes: 4x4, 6x6, and 9x9. The solutions are at the end of the book. There are four levels of difficulty for the puzzles.

The first four pages in this book are dedicated for strategy, hints, rules, or tips. All the puzzles in the book are Classic Sudoku (with numbers). There are no Alphabet Sudoku (with letters) or Symbol Sudoku (with shapes and symbols) like the two books "Kindergarten Sudoku" and "Super Sudoku for Kids".

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous at building Sudoku Skills, July 24, 2010

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Lou Wainwright "wainwrig" (Beverly, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for my 6yo who'd been watching me do Sudoku. He started on the 4x4 problems and was knocking them out in a couple of minutes each. He worked straight through for about an hour and made it through 35 getting to 'Level 2', 6x6 puzzles. These also started easy, but got more challenging. By the time he was almost at Level 3, 9x9 puzzles, the 6x6 had gotten as hard as 6x6's can get and were taking him ~10 minutes each. Now when he started the 9x9's he didn't get frustrated that they took longer, and he knew that as long as he didn't give up he'd get the answers.

Frankly, I can't imagine how any book could have done a better job of teaching him Sudoku, such that he is confident with full size puzzles!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for a 5th - 6th Grader, July 23, 2010

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Michael P. Gallagher (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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I ordered this for something for my just completed 5th grader to do this summer. I would say it is challenging for someone at that age - not too hard, but not too easy, and I highly recommend this compilation of puzzles. Games like these are great as it gets them thinking vs. the sterotypical playing video games and watching TV.