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Are you tough enough? Take on this collection of 200 devilishly difficult sudoku puzzles!
Includes:
-200 hard puzzles
-Perfect portable size
-Big grids for easy solving
Will Shortz Presents Ferocious Sudoku 200 Hard Puzzles
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Maybe too tough, but then that’s the point, right?
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Well, I’ve gone through quite a few sudoku books and thought I was hot stuff. Then Ferocious Sudoku book assaulted my ego. Well, if you’re looking to step up to the big leagues, this is the book; I haven’t found a tougher one.
satisfied customer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I got to where the 100 “hard” puzzles took the same effort that five-star puzzles in the newspaper were requiring of me. The next 100 “challenging” puzzles were just that. Soon I was working primarily the challenging ones and going back to a hard one when my brain needed a rest.
I don’t have any complaint about the paper it’s printed on or the size of the book. Either regular ink or pencil will do.
I wish puzzle publishers would get over wasting pages by printing answers. Either it comes out right, or you do it over. A few pages explaining advanced strategy would have been more welcome, though the strategies are a joy to discover on my own. Still, I have come to a point where I need some coaching.
This is an excellent book if you don’t want to waste your money and time on fast, fun, easy-to-medium puzzles.
Just Right
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This collection of Sudoku puzzles is just what we were looking for. Most other books contain many that are too easy. These are just hard enough to make us think while still being solvable.
Hard, yes! But crummy print job.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I wasn’t getting any kick from the “medium” level any more, so ordered this one. YES, they are hard! Good puzzles.
The printing, though, is rotten. It’s on cheap newsprint-type paper (don’t use a felt-tip pen) and with so little margin that it’s really awkward trying to write on the left-hand pages. A third of the book is answers, printed just two to a page. What a waste. Who uses them anyway? For the same amount of paper, they could have printed 8 or 15 answers to a page and made more margin on the puzzle pages. But then the book wouldn’t have looked so thick – a marketing fooler that fooled ME.
Just What I Wanted
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book gives you 100 “difficult” puzzles and 100 “very challenging” puzzles. Although there’s no official grading system for Sudoku puzzles, I’ve done about half the puzzles in this book and I would say those descriptions are accurate. The “difficult” puzzles are hard enough to make me think but not so hard that I’ve had to use notations to solve them, and the “very challenging” puzzles usually require me to make notations and I’ve even gotten hung up on a couple of them.
The book is big enough so that the puzzles can be easily read yet small enough that it will fit in your laptop case. It’s also very fairly priced for the number of puzzles you get.
Good for the price
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
These puzzles aren’t as hard as I had hoped, but are better than most books. Well worth it, and will pass the time as desired.
Good puzzles, no resorting to guesswork
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The puzzles in this book are as advertised, challenging, but doable without resorting to guesswork. I agree with the reviewer who said that the quality of the paper leaves something to be desired, and the amount of the book taken up by the solutions is too much. However, the price is reasonable for 200 puzzles, and the book is compact enough to carry around easily.