Ultimate Sudoku Challenge

By Will Shortz

Book Overview

If you haven't yet tried sudoku, you're missing out on the most addictive, fun puzzle sensation since the Rubik's Cube. So pick up a pencil, get set, and solve away

Features:
- The "wordless crossword puzzles" that are taking the world by storm
- 100 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard edited by Will Shortz
- Introduction and solving tips from legendary puzzlemaster and editor Will Shortz

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312358156
• ISBN13: 9780312358150
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Let me tell you something,

Let me tell you something: Since I started doing sudoku, less than a year ago, my life has changed in numerous impressive ways. My reflexes are sharper. My attention and concentration have improved. I am meditating again. My blood pressure is lower. My heart rate is lower. My tendonitis has been healed. Believe me. My finances are finally in order. I forgave the people that have wronged me. I asked for forgiveness from the people that I had wronged. I thanked the people who deserved my gratitude. The brain is like a muscle. It needs exercise. Ordering bad American movies on Netflix does not work out your brain. Puzzles do. Sure, you can do crossword puzzles, but they are really annoying with those stupid little clues. I know those so-called crossword puzzle experts have just memorized a bunch of useless clues (like soap opera star names) and common three or four letter words that no one uses in everyday speech. I like the jumble a little, my mother pushed those on me in exchange for attempting sudoku. They are a little crossword puzzle-ish but you are rearranging letters, running through different combinations and permutations in your head, so a little more satisfying to me. But I don't want to knock anything. Do what you like. But, we know from published studies in the Geriatric Psych literature that elderly people do better mentally and physically when they exercise their minds. So learn knew things. Do sudoku. Read good books. Write your family's history. Even if you don't think you're old yet. You're not as young as you used to be, so keep those new connections sprouting (it's not the number of neurons, not the size of neurons, but the number of synapses, the number of unique connections between neurons within the brain). This is a good sudoku book. Nice balance of skill levels. Will Shortz always does a good job with these books. Buy it. Buy it for an elderly buddy who thinks they're too old to learn new things.