Nikoli


Book Description

A spinoff from the Boston Bay Vikings Series. Set in the minor leagues, Nikoli Southern's dream was to make it to the major league team, but now he's not so sure. Willow Carter believed that her job in an assisted living facility for the elderly would keep her safe from harm. She had no idea how deadly that could be.




The Monster Book of Logic Puzzles and Sudoku


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Finally, there's a compendium of all the wicked puzzles from Nikoli! For millions of fans worldwide, that's big news. Nikoli, publisher of Japan's very first puzzle magazine, and a sudoku superpower, offers up a selection of akari, fillomino, hashi, heyawake, hitori, LITS, masyu, number link, nurikabe, ripple effect, shikaku, slitherlink, yajilin, and the perennial favorite, sudoku. The rules to these puzzles may seem simple (how hard could a maze without walls be?), but finding the solution can be diabolically difficult. The dozens of teasers here guarantee hours of fun, and tax your brain cells to the max!




X-treme Sudoku


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From Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle company that created the sudoku craze, comesa title that starts at hard and goes to a level of difficulty not seen in anyprevious books.




Masyu and Sudoku


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Connecting these puzzle cells involves using your brain cells to the max! Masyu features a series of black and white circles arranged in a grid; the object is to join them in a single, unbroken loop with a line that passes through every circle. Of course, there s a twist: there are special rules about how the line may make 90-degree turns when it passes through a black or a white circle. It s like a maze with no walls, and there s only one solutiontry to find it! In addition to the 90 masyu, there are 45 sudoku, too."




Akari & Sudoku


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Widely regarded as the world s most prolific wellspring of logic games and brainteasers ... if anyone comes up with the next craze, it will be Nikoli "The New York Times"In akari, the grid must be filled with light bulbs so that every square is illuminated. When a light bulb is placed in the grid, it illuminates every square in a horizontal or vertical line that isn t blocked by a black square. However, no light bulb may be illuminated by another light bulb, and the bulbs must be placed so that each numbered black square has the correct number of light bulbs adjacent to it. The rules are simple to remember, but create a complex logical world that sudoku solvers will truly appreciate."




Expert Sudoku


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Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!




The Peaceful Mind Book of Japanese Logic Puzzles


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Tend the zen garden of your mind with three different types of Japanese logic puzzles. This book features three different types of elegant, handcrafted Japanese logic puzzles from Nikoli: masyu, yajilin, and suraromu (also called "slalom")--90 puzzles in all. The choice of puzzle types was inspired by the image of raking a zen garden, as each involves drawing a long, winding path. Like sudoku, the puzzles have simple-to-understand rules, and solvers will be able to ease into the book with plenty of easy- and medium-difficulty puzzles.




Genius-Level Sudoku


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Warning:Not for the Sudoku faint-of-heart! Introducing a book of extra tough, extra thorny—and extra addictive—puzzles specially designed for people with Einstein-level Sudoku IQs. Sharpen your pencil. Warm up your gray matter. And pit your wits against the top Japanese puzzle makers in the world. Genius-Level Sudoku features more than 300 brand-new challenges, all rated Good Luck! The latest collection from Nikoli, the company that invented the game and helped launch Sudoku-mania worldwide more than twenty years ago, joins The Original Sudoku, Expert Sudoku, X-Treme Sudoku, and other books and calendars with over 3 million copies in print. Nikoli is famous not only for being the first to make Sudoku puzzles, but for being the best—each puzzle is handcrafted, not churned out by a computer program, which makes it uniquely elegant and interactive. The authors are with their solver every step of the way, anticipating the next move and putting up roadblocks. This next level—genius level—is for every puzzler who craves extreme challenge and actually enjoys having their neurons tied in knots—as, number by number, the solution falls into place and they can celebrate victory.




A Faith Destroyed


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"I find your offer sir, to be an agreeable one." This signaled to the crowd that there would not be a hanging, and many began to sullenly walk away upon being denied the once in a lifetime opportunity of seeing an infant strangled: from Bessie's Smile Life often produces monumental pain and suffering, and yet it is so easy for too many of us to ignore the pain of others we see around us. Five Unexpected Endings is a collection of five short stories, which depict various characters from various backgrounds who all have one thing in common: They are part of the human race. The stories are meant to entertain, but they are also intended to show that we all have the same fears, insecurities, needs, and desires. We must always consider those we are on the planet with, and we must never consider anyone as less important than we are. Five Unexpected Endings is meant to uplift and comfort, but it is also meant to warn that there are consequences when we do not respect the humanity of our fellow man.




Giant Logic Puzzles for Geniuses


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Are you a genius? This book features 96 full-page Japanese logic puzzles, eight each of 12 different types, to test your solving skills. Even seasoned sudoku experts will take a satisfyingly long time to complete these oversize and beautiful puzzles--many of which have elegant designs and even hidden images in the clues.