![]() I'm always astounded at how Frank is able to find so many ways to make each of his puzzles unique and challenging. I have increased my skill significantly and find Sudoku Puzzle solving more satisfying than ever. This book is money well spent! It allows you to decide what puzzle techniques you wish to learn and which ones you don’t with room to grow when and if you're ready. I appreciate the way most publishers approach the size to keep the cost down. Keep in mind that to put 800 puzzles in a book with pages large enough to manage those of us challenged with penmanship issues would require an extremely large book and add significantly to the cost. I don’t have the best handwriting, yes even printing, so I need the larger size. I put several blank one’s on a clipboard and copy a puzzle from any size book so I can more easily write. I hand write the puzzle numbers to the blank grid and play from there. If you find the puzzles too small for your writing style, download one of the printable blank grids available on several websites and copy your puzzles to the larger letter size paper. But XY-Wings, X-Wings, Gordonian Rectangles, Swordfish and other identifiable solving techniques with specific methods for eliminating candidates without having to make assumptions, that works for me. I’m personally not a big fan of Grid Coloring & Long Forcing Chains, so I ignore them, for now. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into it. If you’re working toward being a Master Sudoku Puzzler, this book will put you well on your way. If you’re looking for just basic Sudoku Puzzle ability, this book will get the job done. But you can use some of the websites that are available to supplement your education. Don’t get in a hurry to advance or you will miss the genius of their approach and will not develop the skill you’re looking for.Īre all of your questions going to be answered in this book? Probably not. If you are more advanced, just start solving higher puzzle numbers until you find the difficulty you’re looking for and start working from there puzzle but puzzle. Each puzzle has its own personality that makes solving each one unique even if at the same skill level. Peter and Frank Longo put the puzzles in an order that allows you to gain experience and increase your ability in a gentle sloping manner. If you’re still learning basics, start at the beginning and work your way up. After the last chapter, you will find another 700 puzzles starting from easy to hard. It doesn’t address all the solving techniques apparently in the puzzles today, but it gets you well down the road.Īfter each chapter you will find 12 puzzles specific to the chapter lesson. Peter’s book, Solving Sudoku (Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku is same book only published earlier), is written in a way to take you from the most basic puzzle to the most complex. Sam Aaron has a good book too, although he does make a couple of mistakes that took a bit for me to figure out. I’ve been solving Sudoku Puzzles for several years but became bored with the basic puzzles, so I started searching for a how to book. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.I don’t usually write reviews, but this book is so incredibly well written I had to take the time to write this. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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