Pocket Sudoku Presented by Will Shortz, Volume 3: 150 Fast, Fun Puzzles - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312940459 ISBN 13: 9780312940454

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

First it swept Japan, then England, now the U.S. is caught in the frenzy of sudoku---the new puzzle craze! From Puzzlemaster and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes the third volume of Pocket Sudoku, a brand-new collection featuring 150 sudoku, along with an introduction that explains these mind-bening puzzles and how to solve them. These puzzles are fun and easy to understand---just fill the grid with numbers according to one simple rule. No math is required to solve them---all you need is a pencil. Once you try one sudoku, you'll be hooked.

If you're a crossword fan or just a puzzle lover in general, you'll want to get your hands on this collection of sudoku.

About this title

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.

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 this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312940459
• ISBN 13: 9780312940454
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Shortz Will