The Book of Sudoku #2

by Michael Mepham

book of sudoku math/strategy puzzles This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585677760
• ISBN13: 9781585677764
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Another great one

Michael Mepham does it again. A great follow up to the first book. I love this one too.

breaking up homes! destroying friendships!

Last night I had a friend over and my sudoku book happened to catch my eye. Suddenly I wanted her to go home so I could work on the puzzle. That book has some serious power over me!

Tougher than you'd think

It amuses me to hear these number puzzles referred to as a hot new craze to hit the US, since I used to solve these puzzles many years ago in the Dell puzzle magazines. I believe Dell is actually the originator of this puzzle, which was called "Number Place" rather than "Sudoku." The rules are quite simple. Given a 9 by 9 square grid, you have to arrange the digits one through nine into the grid so that the same number does not appear more than once in any row, column, or subgrid. Although it sounds easy, it can be fiendishly difficult. It takes reasoning, logic, and, in the case of the harder puzzles, a lot of persistence. This Sudoku collection contains a detailed guide on how to solve easy, medium, and difficult puzzles (and yes, the harder the puzzle the more complex the approach that must be taken to solve it). It contains more than 130 puzzles arranged in order of difficulty from easy to diabolical. The grids are large and easy to work with. This book will keep you challenged for a long time. Warning: these puzzles can be habit forming! Eileen Rieback