Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crosswords

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Book Overview

Ul-ti-mate (ul te mit) adj.---of the greatest size or importance, the maximum; when used to describe puzzles, refers to sudoku as the widely acknowledged "king of logic puzzles" from the world's #1 puzzle guru, Will Shortz

Will Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku is the biggest, boldest, and most impressive collection of sudoku available. If you can't get enough of these addictive, seductive puzzles, then the book for you has finally arrived. So prepare to dive into sudoku: With one thousand puzzles, you'll always be satisfied

Features:
- 1,000 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard
- Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
- Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312345631
• ISBN13: 9780312345631
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.2" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

huge book!

What I like about this book is that the puzzles are large print, 2 per page, and it is a large book (approx 11 x 8.5 inches). There are challenges for everyone. For me personally, the only drawback so far is that 450 puzzles are "Light and Easy" and I prefer more of a challenge. Also these are all the standard 9x9 puzzles, no extreme, jigsaw or super sudokus.

Good puzzles, nice layout

This is a good solid book. It appeared that someone had worked through the puzzles to be sure they were solvable, which is comforting when you're up against something tough. Loved the extra margins and large boxes to leave plenty of room for notes and scribbling. Sometimes the tough ones seemed easy and vice versa. Definitely requires skills in more than one strategy to beat the tougher puzzles. Good book.

Will Shortz: My Puzzle Hero

Will Shortz has done it again. These puzzles are organized by difficulty: light and easy; moderate; demanding; beware! very challenging. 1000 Puzzles! I will still be working on these puzzles well into the next decade!

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!

I bought this book just after it was published in August 2006, to take on vacation. I'm up to #953 (Feb 2007), and sure hope I can find another giant one like this!!! (Or I have to erase all the puzzles and start over). The grid size is good, and characterization (easy/medium/etc) is good. It's definitely improved my technique, and I recommend this to anyone who loves sudoku.

Perfect for sudden sudoku urges

Will Shortz is one of my favorite sudoku editors. The puzzles are interesting, require a variety of solving styles, and are well rated for difficulty. This book's large size is just perfect for propping on one's knees in an easy chair. It stays open without effort. The size of the grids is just right. Those of us who have struggled with some really hard puzzles might find too many easy ones here, but even the easy ones are interesting, and I find myself enjoying them when I need a distraction rather than a challenge. The rich offering of so many puzzles at many levels of difficulty makes this a book to go back to again and again.