Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crossword Puzzles [Paperback]

Will Shortz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 8, 2006 | Series: Will Shortz Presents...

Ul•ti•mate (ul´te mit) adj.---of the greatest size or importance, the maximum; when used to describe puzzles, refers to sudoku as the widely acknowledged "king of logic puzzles" from the world's #1 puzzle guru, Will Shortz
 
Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku is the biggest, boldest, and most impressive collection of sudoku available.  If you can't get enough of these addictive, seductive puzzles, then the book for you has finally arrived.  So prepare to dive into sudoku: With one thousand puzzles, you'll always be satisfied!
 
Features:
·          1,000 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard
·          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

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (August 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312345631
• ISBN-13: 978-0312345631
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #87 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Sudoku

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for sudden sudoku urges, January 3, 2007

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Lisa Brandt (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Paperback)

Will Shortz is one of my favorite sudoku editors. The puzzles are interesting, require a variety of solving styles, and are well rated for difficulty. This book's large size is just perfect for propping on one's knees in an easy chair. It stays open without effort. The size of the grids is just right. Those of us who have struggled with some really hard puzzles might find too many easy ones here, but even the easy ones are interesting, and I find myself enjoying them when I need a distraction rather than a challenge. The rich offering of so many puzzles at many levels of difficulty makes this a book to go back to again and again.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!, February 19, 2007

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duckbeak - See all my reviews

This review is from: Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Paperback)

I bought this book just after it was published in August 2006, to take on vacation. I'm up to #953 (Feb 2007), and sure hope I can find another giant one like this!!! (Or I have to erase all the puzzles and start over). The grid size is good, and characterization (easy/medium/etc) is good. It's definitely improved my technique, and I recommend this to anyone who loves sudoku.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will Shortz: My Puzzle Hero, April 2, 2007

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Janette Draper "Honolulu Mama" (Honolulu, HI, USA) - See all my reviews
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Will Shortz has done it again. These puzzles are organized by difficulty: light and easy; moderate; demanding; beware! very challenging. 1000 Puzzles! I will still be working on these puzzles well into the next decade!