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Carol Vorderman
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 009190997X
Pub: Ebury Press
Pub date: 2005-06-20
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 78086
Reader Reviews:
Not Good (2/3 people found this helpful)
I've been enjoying doing Sudoku's for about a month. A friend gave me this and it is the first tips book I've seen. I don't consider myself as someone with some kind of Spock level of natural logic but was amazed to flick the book, cover to cover, and discover nothing I hadn't worked out myself in the first couple of hours of playing Sudoku. Very, very simple tips are, fair enough, explained well inside, but unless you are logically clueless this is too elementary for even a basic beginner.
My main gripe with the book is that it catogorises 'difficult' and 'super difficult' Sudokus (which is always open to interpretation) which, from every other source I've seen, the 'difficult' are comparable with medium and 'super-difficult' with the milder difficult ones you find in newspapers etc.. Only puzzles, 199 and 200 offered what I would consider a genuinely hard challenge. I believe the reason for this is that the tips covered in the book are not enough to solve a 'real' hard sudoku, so they have produced the book this way on purpose. Cynical.
Two stars as the there are 200 puzzles, which, at the price is not bad value, just look elsewhere for a really in-depth book which covers far more techniques than this.
Instructions not as clear as Michael Mephams (2/3 people found this helpful)
I was fairly diappointed with this book. I also have the Michael Mepham book and found his instructions on the many differnt methods much clearer to follow
Excellent (4/5 people found this helpful)
I started doing Soduku puzzles while vacationing in the U.K. I picked up Carol's book at Heathrow for the plane back to America. I was already able to finish these puzzles, but the techniques presented in the book allowed me to do so much faster and more efficiently. The guide to super-difficult Soduku puzzles is a godsend.
The best beginners book (12/13 people found this helpful)
For its modest price, this is a brilliant book for beginners. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars was the claim on the front cover to show me how to be a "Sudoku master". The so called super difficult puzzles are not, in fact, all that difficult and are not rated above medium or hard by a computer program I now use. If you want to learn about solving techniques like Swordfish, X-Wings, Forcing Chains, etc you will need to look elsewhere. That said, this book is a really good place to start - great to take on holiday with you, or for a rainy day.
My time for fiendish is down from 50 minutes to 20 minutes (5/5 people found this helpful)
This book has everything. My time for fiendish (or super-difficult as this book calls them) has more than halved - down from 50 minutes to just 20 minutes. There are lots of pieces of logic that I've read elsewhere but didn't understand before I read this book. She has written it brilliantly and in a friendly way unlike the nerdy bits that appear on the web sometimes. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to go to a higher level or just wants to cut their time down for each puzzle.
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