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These puzzles offer more than just solving pleasure: theyre also works of art! Thats because every time you successfully complete a diagram, you also draw a picture. Along the top and left side of the grid are numbers that refer to the columns and rows: these are the keys to a code revealing which and how many squares to fill in. It just takes a little logic, concentration, and patience to figure it outthe process is a lot like sudoku, actually, where you work with numerical clues. But the result is something to show off, because out of the mix of black and white squares comes images of a bus, cat, pineapple, samurai, sphinx, and even James Dean!
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
I have been doing these types of puzzles for a couple of years since discovering them in the Telegraph. I have bought almost all of the 9 Telegraph books and 3 of the O'Ekaki series.
Shopping around for more puzzles (I'm an addict), I never clicked on this book because I was a little put off by the cover design and the name "Paint-doku" is a misnomer, as the principles of hanjie/griddlers/o'ekaki/norograms have nothing in common with sudoku. Eventually (running out of other options) I decided to give it a try and it beats all the competition on a number of levels:
-The puzzles vary in size and difficulty but even with the smaller grids there are no complete no-brainers as is sometimes the case.
-The spiral-bound format is genius, no breaking of the spine necessary, facilitates one-handed completion for, say, when you have to eat but can't stop because your obsession won't let you.
-The paper quality is very good, others have praised its rub-out-ability, but if you live dangerously and complete them in ink you will find that it doesn't absorb and ruin the other side with gel pens (which fill squares in half the time - tip) and biros run quite nicely over it.
-The sheer volume, at over 180 puzzles, with no duds, has kept even a hanjunkie like me occupied for a few months.
In short, buy this and order more pens/pencils while you're at it.
Shopping around for more puzzles (I'm an addict), I never clicked on this book because I was a little put off by the cover design and the name "Paint-doku" is a misnomer, as the principles of hanjie/griddlers/o'ekaki/norograms have nothing in common with sudoku. Eventually (running out of other options) I decided to give it a try and it beats all the competition on a number of levels:
-The puzzles vary in size and difficulty but even with the smaller grids there are no complete no-brainers as is sometimes the case.
-The spiral-bound format is genius, no breaking of the spine necessary, facilitates one-handed completion for, say, when you have to eat but can't stop because your obsession won't let you.
-The paper quality is very good, others have praised its rub-out-ability, but if you live dangerously and complete them in ink you will find that it doesn't absorb and ruin the other side with gel pens (which fill squares in half the time - tip) and biros run quite nicely over it.
-The sheer volume, at over 180 puzzles, with no duds, has kept even a hanjunkie like me occupied for a few months.
In short, buy this and order more pens/pencils while you're at it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
As well as being a comprehensive collection of puzzles, this book also makes the experience of completing them doubly pleasurable by presenting its brainteasers on good quality paper - an absolute rarity in my experience. the pencil doesnt go through and it shows up well on the smooth white paper. very saisfying. if anyone has found other books with good quality paper, please let me know. i think i will have to resort to buying this again!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This book probably provides the best pleasure to cost ratio of anything I have ever bought! Hundreds of hours of puzzling, not a single mistake (that I could find), and no guessing required (although I was often tempted to guess). My only criticism would be that there isn't a difficulty rating for individual puzzles - some of the smaller ones were quite tricky, and some of the larger ones very straightforward. But many of them were devilish - I had to acquire several new solving strategies.
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Paint Doku Hanjie Puzzles
I agree with other reviewers - The puzzles are a good variety of size & difficulty - the paper quality is excellent and the spiral binding makes the book easy to use. Read more
Published 3 months ago by mave
Amazing!
I bought this for my Dad whilst recovering from surgery as he loves nonograms. As other reviews say, the title is misleading. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sam
An excellent puzzle book
Paint-Doku (despite it's bizarre title) is an excellent hanjie/nonogram/griddler style puzzle book. I can only presume the name paint-doku was chosen in the hope to attract more... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Stuart Keeler
Very nice and good value
Excellent book. Despite the misleading title, this is a book of good quality Nonogram (aka Hanjie) puzzles. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Alan Gilmore
I love this book
I have been off work ill for a couple of weeks and I can't do anything too strenuous, so this has been an absolute godsend. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Aliwal
Addictive
I love Japanese Hanjie puzzles and this book contains nearly 200 of them in varying sizes and levels of difficulty. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Six Impossible Things
nothing special
I bought this on the back of other people's reviews, but after getting stuck into the puzzles i quickly realised that they were not particularly challenging. Read more
Published 20 months ago by manda A
Great!
Best of the lot! Spiral bound, big And smal puzzles, good quality paper. Recommended.
Published 21 months ago by Stephen Caffrey
Paint-doku hanjie puzzles
This book is great, the puzzles are Hanjie puzzles. If you're a fan then there are over 100 puzzles in this book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by S. Man
Almost 200 puzzles!
This is a great book - the spiral format is very useful. My only criticism is that a lof of them are BIG puzzles - 50x50 squares and larger. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by Ms
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