The New York Times Will Shortz Presents Sunday KenKen: 300 Challenging Logic Puzzles That Make You Smarter

by Tetsuya Miyamoto, Will Shortz (Introduction), The New York Times

Overview

KenKen has quickly become the successor to sudoku that the world's been waiting for! And the New York Times is becoming America's favorite place to get their KenKen fix. Now, in addition to appearing the the daily editions of the Times, KenKen will be printed in the Sunday Times Magazine as well. Now you can solve KenKen 7 days a week!

This second New York Times edition of KenKen contains 300 larger Sunday-sized 5x5 and 7x7 puzzles with "How to Solve" instructions and an introduction by puzzlemaster Will Shortz. The puzzles use all four mathematical operations and increase in difficulty like they do in the Times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312621797
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	135,520
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.16(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

TETSUYA MIYAMOTO, the creator of KenKen, is a math teacher who runs a unique mathematics class for grade school children in Japan where he practices "The Art of Teaching Without Teaching." His teaching method and use of KenKen in his classroom has proven extremely successful. His students regularly go on to be accepted at the most prestigious schools in Tokyo.

WILL SHORTZ has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.