Masters Kakuro: 172 Challenging Puzzles

By Jim Bumgardner

High-level game players joining the kakuro craze will learn the logic, understand the math, develop solving methods, and even devise some tricks of their own. And thanks to Masters Kakuro, they can continue to challenge themselves with increasingly difficult puzzles. Ranging from difficult to very difficult to insanely difficult, Masters Kakuro's 172 puzzles comprise the most challenging collection in any book. The puzzles have large grids and extensive cross-sections that thwart simple trial-and-error players with endless combinations. Yet every puzzle in Masters Kakuro has only one correct solution that can be determined with superior logic and excellent gaming strategy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569755531
• ISBN13: 9781569755532
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Kakuro fans rejoice

Those addicted to Kakuro will enjoy this puzzle book. Fun and just hard enough to be challenging.

Very satisfying collection of puzzles

I had little difficulty reading the puzzles (per the previous reviewer), and found the puzzles themselves large enough to easily work with (compared to many others). They range from difficult to nearly impossible, but somehow I managed to make my way through the entire collection. Overall, I found the puzzles fully enjoyable; this was a collection I always enjoyed pulling out for some mental gymnastics. I wish Bumgardner would come out with a Volume II, as he has a good sense of Kakuro style--puzzles that make you think, but not necessarily (compared with, say, the Dell collections) make you have to work more than think.