Stress-Solver Sudoku
By (Author) Will Shortz
Griffin Publishing
Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
1st July 2009
United States
General
Non Fiction
793.74
128
Width 146mm, Height 232mm, Spine 8mm
188g
Many solvers love sudoku not just for the intellectual challenge or the sheer fun of solving, but because sudoku puzzles help them attain an almost Zen-like state of mental relaxation. Sudoku, to put it simply, help solvers get in the zone. This book features one hundred all-new easy puzzles. It is edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz. It includes big grids with lots of space for easy solving.
"A puzzling global phenomenon" --The Economist
"The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935." --The Times of London
"England's most addictive newspaper puzzle." --New York magazine
"The latest craze in games" --BBC News
"Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!" --The Times of London
"Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s." --The Daily Telegraph
"Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids." --Associated Press
"Forget crosswords." --The Christian Science Monitor
Will Shortz has been Crossword Editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the Puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has published hundreds of books of sudoku and crossword puzzles, and he recently starred in the hit documentary Wordplay. Will can be reached at www.crosswordtournament.com.