Sudoku-Utopia: 336 Puzzles to Blow Your Mind!

by Peter De Schepper, Frank Coussement

Overview

Sudoku addicts—this is your utopia for puzzle perfection! With 336 fabulous Sudoku, divided into medium, hard, and very hard, this oversized, fun-filled collection gives solvers hours of entertainment and a chance to build their skills. Give yourself a real mental workout. Start with the solutions for four different solving strategies. Learn how to exclude options by finding a box where only one number is possible; situate the right number; recognize patterns; and do "framesecuring"—a technique that’s helpful when completing the most difficult Sudoku.
Created by two of the world’s best puzzle masters, Sudoku-utopia offers an unforgettably challenging, mind-blowing, brainteasing, logic-building experience!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623540210
Publisher:	Charlesbridge
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

PeterFrank was founded in 2000 by Peter De Schepper and Frank Coussement. Their internationally registered trademark, BrainSnack®, stands for challenging, language-independent, logical puzzles and mind games for kids, teens, and adults. It also stands for high-quality puzzles. Whether they are made by hand like the visual puzzles or generated by computer like Sudoku, all puzzles have been tested by the target group they were made for. In order to guarantee that the computer-generated puzzles can actually be solved by humans, they make programs that only use human logic algorithms.

Read an Excerpt

How does one play sudoku?
Fill in the grid so that each row, each column and each 3 x 3 frame contains every number from 1 to 9.
How does one solve a sudoku?
To solve a Sudoku, you don’t need any mathematical insight —logic is fine. There are four strategies that allow you to solve every Sudoku in this book—from medium to very hard.