Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku


Book Description

Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from "Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games" magazine!"




Mensa Sudoku


Book Description

Sudoku for the super-smart Mensa members are known for their finely-honed logic skills--and that's just what it takes to become an expert at sudoku. So it's no surprise that this organization for the highly intelligent has put together a huge collection of these sizzling-hot puzzles--a whopping 534 games to sate the obsessed solver's craving. They start out relatively easy for the newcomer, and get harder (and more fun ) as you go along.




Mensa Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 1


Book Description

The vast majority of sudoku puzzles that are labeled hard, expert, challenger, are not really all that difficult. And in a surprising number of cases, they are downright easy. Part of the Absolutely Nasty Sudoku series, this book provides basic and intermediate puzzles and techniques.




X-treme Sudoku


Book Description

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.




Repeat-Letter Sudoku


Book Description

Double letters mean double fun for puzzle mavens, who will sharpen their pencils and their wits to solve these clever sudoku variations. Conceived by the man who has been creating sudoku longer than anyone alive, they dispense with one of the standard rules of the game: no repeats. Instead, these brainteasers include at least one letter that occurs two times in every row, column, and diagonal. That makes it harder to eliminate possibilities and complete the grid. And there's more: in every spread, the phrases in the two sudoku are related. So, one might have "breakfast," while the other has "cold pizza"; "dentistry" and "candy bars"; and "eyestrain" and "nude beach."




Mastering Sudoku Week by Week


Book Description

Sudoku has become an addiction for millions--and that’s great, because mind games help keep our brains in good working order. But even though the rules are simple, many solvers need some help when cracking the more complicated grids. That support is here in abundance...enough to take to you into the realm of the Very Difficult and even the Fiendish. Using this attractive guide, solvers will smoothly progress through 52 stages, each with a self-testing and timed puzzle to monitor progress. Chock-full of tactics and tips, and drawing on strategies evolved by Sudoku experts from Japan, Europe, and the United States, this little book takes you to the top.




Expert Sudoku


Book Description

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!




Absolutely Nasty® Sudoku Level 3


Book Description

The difficulty level soars, as even more tricks get added to the mix: X-Wing; Swordfish; XY-Wing; XYZ-Wing; and the Gordonian Rectangle.




Sudokugrams


Book Description

Sending a telegram to puzzle lovers: get ready, because this collection is the greatest thing to happen to sudoku yet! With millions of fans of the original 9x9 number puzzles, there’s always a huge audience waiting with pencils poised for the newest development in the form. This fun and challenging word game variation follows all the traditional sudoku rules, except for one thing: every row, column, and square in the completed grid is also an anagram--so it takes a little extra smarts to finish solving. Cleverly constructed by two of the best puzzle creators in the business, this is sure to be the next sudoku-based hit.




Absolutely Nasty® Sudoku Level 4


Book Description

Top solvers can try their hand at the One-Sided Gordonian Rectangle; Extended Gordonian Rectangle; Gordonian Polygon; and Alternating Digits. (But they can take comfort in knowing that no more than one will occur in any single puzzle.)