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One of the familiar pleasures of childhood is solving mazes. Now Nikoli presents mazes for grownups - mazes without walls! In Slitherlink, the diagrams are open grids, with numbers scattered through them; the solver has to connect the dots in a closed loop, with each number indicating exactly how many lines must surround it. In Masyu, the task is to draw a path through black and white circles, making a right-angle turn at each black circle, and going straight ahead through every white one. Dont let the simple rules fool you - these challenges are guaranteed to keep puzzle fans delightfully distracted for hours on end.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Nice mix of difficulties
24 Dec 2010
This book consists of 72 puzzles of each of two major Japanese grid-based logic puzzles, Slitherlink and Masyu. The goal of these puzzles is to place lines in a grid such that a single closed loop is formed, following the instructions and clues provided.
Slitherlink rules are much easier to understand. Loop segments are placed along the sides of squares such that the number shown in the square matches the number of loop segments along the four sides. Clue numbers range from 0 to 3, and not all squares contain a clue. In this book, all of the clues are 180-degree symmetrical (as they are with Nikoli's standard Sudoku puzzles).
Masyu rules are more complicated. Clues consist of white and black circles in some of the squares. How the loop proceeds through these squares is based on their color, with these conditions: It must proceed STRAIGHT through a WHITE circle; it must turn in the square immediately before or after that square; it must TURN (90-degrees) through a BLACK circle; it may NOT turn in the squares immediately before and after that square.
These are quality puzzles, as one would expect from Nikoli. The paper is bright white and thick stock, ready for erasing as needed, and the spiral binding allows the book to open flat. The page size is nice for easy holding. There is little white space, and the font is as large as possible (some of the harder, and hence larger, puzzles look cramped on the page). Highly recommended.
Slitherlink rules are much easier to understand. Loop segments are placed along the sides of squares such that the number shown in the square matches the number of loop segments along the four sides. Clue numbers range from 0 to 3, and not all squares contain a clue. In this book, all of the clues are 180-degree symmetrical (as they are with Nikoli's standard Sudoku puzzles).
Masyu rules are more complicated. Clues consist of white and black circles in some of the squares. How the loop proceeds through these squares is based on their color, with these conditions: It must proceed STRAIGHT through a WHITE circle; it must turn in the square immediately before or after that square; it must TURN (90-degrees) through a BLACK circle; it may NOT turn in the squares immediately before and after that square.
These are quality puzzles, as one would expect from Nikoli. The paper is bright white and thick stock, ready for erasing as needed, and the spiral binding allows the book to open flat. The page size is nice for easy holding. There is little white space, and the font is as large as possible (some of the harder, and hence larger, puzzles look cramped on the page). Highly recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
No Sudoku!
2 Aug 2010
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I love Japanese logic puzzles, but am sick of sudoku. Great to find a book that isn't half sudoku. These are really fun!
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