Will Shortz Presents Terrifying Sudoku: 200 Diabolical Puzzles

Book Overview

Will Shortz Presents Terrifying Sudoku: The Hardest Puzzles, featuring two hundred of the most devious sudoku puzzles ever created

This volume includes:
- 200 mind-melting sudoku puzzles to solve
- Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
- Portable and affordable package--perfect for solving on the go

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312607911
• ISBN13: 9780312607913
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for the skilled player!

I've purchased a number of Will Shortz' sudoku books over the years. I've enjoyed them all. But I've gotten fairly skilled at sudoku puzzles and now need to be challenged. This collection is truly challenging! To offer a sense of how difficult the "mind bending" category of puzzles is in this book -- in one recent puzzle, in a line where I had only one number given, I solved it only after recognizing that 5 numbers had to fall in 5 of the spaces in that line (exact positions unknown). This lead me to 3 numbers in the remaining spaces which gave me only one additional number answer in that line!!! I was still far from done with that puzzle. Clearly, this book is not for the newspaper or magazine sudoku player. You have to be pretty good at these. Other features I like about this book is that it's printed on good white paper that takes pen or pencil well and the puzzles are a good size (one to a page). I also like that the given numbers fill each square, making the puzzle easy to read -- although for those who like to make notes in the squares, this might be a bad feature. I also like the compact size of these books, i.e., the ones with the cartoon images on the cover. Note: not all of Will Shortz books are in compact size. The only minor criticism I have with this book is that in other editions of these books, Mr. Shortz included sudoku variations, such as random box sudoku and 12-digit sudoku. I enjoy the variations and would've liked to see them included. But except for that minor personal complaint, I highly recommend this book to the skilled sudoku player!