- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Sterling (15 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1402738722
- ISBN-13: 978-1402738722
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 530,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Crazy for sudoku? Try kakuros, more fun and more challenging than sudoku, theyre the hottest mind-boggling number puzzles yet to baffle the world! To solve kakuro puzzles takes logic, skill, and concentration. Pick up a pencil and start right away; you wont notice the time passing as your attention is riveted on these complicated number puzzles!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I bought this book because I wanted a Kakuro book of about the same level as the Mensa and Black-Belt puzzles. Each puzzle in this collection is easy to start because they use well-known combinations (e.g.17 in 2 cells). But then they suddenly become difficult to finish - for most of them I ended up guessing which possibility was the right one for an unsolved cell. My preference is for puzzles that don't require going down pathways that may lead to the wrong answer. I liked the design of the book which leaves lots of space around the puzzles for working out.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
For Those Who Know
29 Jan 2006
Kakuro, also known as cross sums, is one of the puzzles quickly growing in popularity. Like many of the other logic-based puzzles to come from, or pass through, Japan, the puzzle is based on a few simple rules. The rest is left to logic and basic math skills.
Kakuro looks like a crossword with black and white boxes. But instead of filling in words, you fill in the digits from 1 to 9. Each row and column has a number to tell you what the sum of the digits is. The puzzler must find the unique solution that satisfies all of the sums. While a sum must be made up of the digits from 1 to 9 and no duplicates, the number of boxes can range from 1 (usually 2) to nine so exclusivity is less prevalent than in su doku. Fans of killer su doku, su doku with addition, will take to this one easily while straight number placement puzzlers may need to learn a few tricks.
This volume contains 68 puzzles. Each is on the same size grid and seems to be of a similar complexity. The book has almost no training but does include useful tables of unique sums. Each puzzle also has one set of boxes highlighted as a possible starting place but I often find myself starting elsewhere. Although slim in size I have found this to be one of my favorite and most enjoyable puzzle books.
Kakuro looks like a crossword with black and white boxes. But instead of filling in words, you fill in the digits from 1 to 9. Each row and column has a number to tell you what the sum of the digits is. The puzzler must find the unique solution that satisfies all of the sums. While a sum must be made up of the digits from 1 to 9 and no duplicates, the number of boxes can range from 1 (usually 2) to nine so exclusivity is less prevalent than in su doku. Fans of killer su doku, su doku with addition, will take to this one easily while straight number placement puzzlers may need to learn a few tricks.
This volume contains 68 puzzles. Each is on the same size grid and seems to be of a similar complexity. The book has almost no training but does include useful tables of unique sums. Each puzzle also has one set of boxes highlighted as a possible starting place but I often find myself starting elsewhere. Although slim in size I have found this to be one of my favorite and most enjoyable puzzle books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not a good first Kakuro book . . .
3 April 2006
I bought this as my first Kakuro book and found it disappointing because it doesn't have graduated levels of difficulty. Nothing on the cover or on the inside text indicates it isn't appropriate for beginners, but only after I've done 20+ "medium" puzzles in other books, am I finding I'm ready for Gordon's book. I find the cells a little small, but the paper quality is good for erasing.
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