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126 of 127 people found the following review helpful:
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Good thing I work for the Government!, August 15, 2005
This review is from: Sudoku Easy to Hard Presented by Will Shortz, Volume 2: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Paperback)
Well, I do work for the government, but I am just sort of kidding about doing these puzzles during government time. This book by Will Shortz is very well presented. I looked at five other books before settling on this and I am very pleased (when I am not breaking my pencil in despair).
Most important to me in buying a Sudoku book was that the puzzles must be large enough so that I can easily write in the squares without jumbling the numbers. When I do them from the newspaper, I usually enlarge the puzzle on the copy machine.
This book seems to do the best in presenting puzzles that are easy on which to write. In addition, there are a good number of puzzles (100) ranging from easy to "very challenging." Some of the easy ones are tough. I just completed the puzzle that appears on the book's cover. This took me two tries and there is no answer key for that one, so keep trying. All the other puzzles in the book contain answers in the back. As with the other Sudoku books, this one contains a brief history of the game and some tips.
There isn't much else that can differentiate one Sudoku book from another. But, I would certainly buy another from this author when it is offered. Even though it is a solitary game, my family/friends have a laugh watching my frustration and successes.
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74 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sudoku Easy to Hard: good variety of puzzles, August 26, 2005
This review is from: Sudoku Easy to Hard Presented by Will Shortz, Volume 2: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Paperback)
This book's puzzles are a lot more difficult than the ones you see in your daily newspaper. Working a sudoku puzzle does get easier as time goes on, however, so take heart.
One tip I can share is to put a letter in the corner of each square to help you remember in what order you filled it in. I start with 'a', go on through 'z', then to 'aa' and so on to 'zz', and then to 'aaa'. That way, when I find a mistake, I only erase the squares that I filled in after the mistaken square.
Good luck and happy solving!
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Feeding My Sudoku Obsession..., November 1, 2005
This review is from: Sudoku Easy to Hard Presented by Will Shortz, Volume 2: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Paperback)
Anyone familiar with crossword puzzles knows the name Will Shortz--renowned crossword puzzle creator and editor associated with the New York Times and Games magazine and editor of countless high quality crossword puzzle books. He brings the same high quality to this series of sudoku books.
If you are new to sudoku, I recommend you start with book 1 of the series, which is all easy level puzzles. This book, #2, has four levels of puzzles--Light and EAsy, Moderate, Demanding, and Beware! Very Challenging. I like this because sometimes I like to do a fast, less demanding puzzle and sometimes I like a "chewier" puzzle that requires more time and attention, and I can skip around to the different levels in this book.
The explanation of how to solve sudoku is the most basic one (fill in the numbers 1-9 so that each number appears only once in each row, column and square of the grid) with the very basic steps for solving explained. This isn't a book that walks you through the higher level solving strategies.
But if you just want a bunch of high quality puzzles, with a variety of difficulty levels, on good paper that stands up to lots of erasing, in nice light portable book, this is a good choice!
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