Book Description
Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won’t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games magazine!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent guide for Sudoku.......2007-09-04
I found several techniques that I had not run across before that have helped me solve some of those "black belt" puzzles in the paper with relative ease.
Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku.......2007-09-01
The book met my expectations. It is an excellent resource for a serious Sukoku puzzle solver. It teaches new problem solving techniques and has puzzles in each chapter that test the new knowledge learned. It also has a lot of puzzles at the end of the book that will give hours of pleasure or frustration, dependin on your point of view.
Definitely good value.
My only negative comment would be the binding is not good and I have loose pages already.
helpful, but hard to understand.......2007-08-15
Maybe because I am not a genius, this book was hard to undertrstand. It has tons of puzzles and a plethora of techniques to guide someone in solving the hard sudoku puzzles. However, I needed to buy another book that dumbed it down a little. The 2nd book I bought was Mastering Sudoku Week by Week: 52 Steps to Becoming a Sudoku Wizard by Paul Stephens. This book is wonderful. It is easy to understand and still teaches the techniques to solving the extreme sudoku puzzles. Also, for Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All (Mensa) there are 6 puzzles to a page and that is rather cramped. The harder puzzles require notes/candidate listing, which is nearly impossible with the size of these puzzles.
Just Exactly What I Wanted.......2007-07-31
Although I had figured out most of the basic techniques listed in the book by myself, I needed a "teacher" in order to learn the more sophisticated solving techniques. This book provided exactly that, without the huge jumps between instructional steps that some books have. I like the fact that this book contains a large number of puzzles to solve which increase in difficulty, but for the hardest puzzles it would have been nice to have the name of a possible solving technique to access first in the answer section, instead of being forced to go directly to the completely solved puzzle.
I also would have preferred a round-wire or spiral binding so that the book would lie flat when open which would make the puzzles easier to work, but removing the sections of early finished puzzles while keeping the instructions intact allowed the book to flat and served my purpose anyway.
Overall, it was a great book...the best I've seen, and I've looked at lots of them.
The Sudoku "Missing Link".......2007-07-29
Most Sudoku books are a collection of puzzles of varying complexity with either no solving strategies other than the basic rules of Sudoku or with a brief, superficial look at the more elementary solving methods.
"Solving SodoKu" by Peter Gordon is the exception. It covers virtually all the techniques required the crack the more difficult "evil", "diabolical", etc. type puzzles. It starts with the fundamental methods and graduates up to the difficult strategies. Each chapter includes a number of puzzles solveable using the method in the chapter to practice the technique. The book also has about 700 more puzzles. So far this is the only book I have found that goes into the level of detail to identify the "key" to the puzzle and then solve it. After working thru the techiques I am now finding and solving many puzzles using the Gordonian Logic family of strategies. That chapter alone was worth the price of the book.
I highly recommend the book if you are serious about solving super-tough puzzles.
Unfortunately, I could not give the book a 5 star rating as the puzzle size (6 per page) is too small and the binding is poor. My book is simply falling apart after what I would consider normal use. I'm also getting tired of copying the puzzle to a larger blank grid to properly work the puzzle.
Book Description
Sudoku for the super-smart! Mensa members are known for their finely-honed logic skills—and that’s just what it takes to become an expert at sudoku. So it’s no surprise that this organization for the highly intelligent has put together a huge collection of these sizzling-hot puzzles—a whopping 534 games to sate the obsessed solver’s craving. They start out relatively easy for the newcomer, and get harder (and more fun!) as you go along.
Customer Reviews:
false advertising. too easy........2007-07-08
I suppose this book is an ego booster for those who want to solve Sudoku from a book that poses as a Mensa level challenge. The lack of challenge renders this book boring.
I'm not a member of Mensa but these puzzles are way too easy!.......2007-02-22
I agree with the majority of the reviews that these puzzles are way too easy. The only challenge I have now is to complete them in under 10 minutes.
Mensa for Dummies?.......2006-12-08
Maybe change the title to "Mensa for Dummies?"
A total waste of money for anyone looking for any sort of challenge.
Disappointing.......2006-10-12
I bought this book in a brick & mortar store thinking it would be a challenging experience. How very wrong I was. These puzzles are beginner to intermediate level puzzles at best. I've gone through 73 puzzles and the only thing that gave me trouble was that they were so easy, I got sloppy and made dumb mistakes.
The worst part is the "Official Mensa Puzzle Book" seal on the cover and a line on the back cover stating "You could be a genius at sudokus!" What a load of crock.
In short, if you want a ton of puzzles to get started with, this book is fine. If you want a challenge, look elsewhere (the sudoku game on my phone is more challenging).
This is mensa quality?.......2006-09-15
Sorry, but I didn't find these puzzles a bit challenging. I DO like the fact that the puzzles are supposedly in consecutive order of difficulty as you advance through the book. That's a nice feature. Because of it, I immediately began skipping ahead and never did find a puzzle that was challenging.
Customer Reviews:
Great Sudoku book!.......2007-09-20
This is the first Challenger Sudoku book I tried. I have since tried others, and this is still the best! I can't wait to work on 2, 3, and 4!
Challenging puzzles, high-quality construction.......2007-07-17
The puzzles in this book are harder than those in most sudoku books, and are much harder than the puzzles you see in newspapers. The puzzles are not the most difficult I've seen, but given there are three more books in the series, each one harder than the previous, they seem to be about the right level of difficulty.
Pros:
* Contains 242 puzzles--quite a lot for the price
* Spiral bound so you don't have to struggle to hold the book open
* High-quality paper so you can erase your pencil marks without making the paper rough
* Challenging; no easy puzzles
* Puzzles are slightly larger than in most sudoku books, making pencil marks easier to manage
In my opinion, there are no real "cons" in this book (thus the 5-star rating), but I listed three things that could be considered drawbacks depending on what you're looking for in a sudoku book:
* Little to no variety in difficulty level
* Somewhat larger than most sudoku books (but still not huge)
* No tips or strategy section
An introduction to the tough world of sudoku.......2007-05-23
This is the first sudoku book that I've picked up - including some of the alleged "expert" books - that really challenges me. The first few puzzle in the book left me completely stumped and reaching for the Mensa book on how-to attack sudoko puzzles. After a period of adjustment, I've started being able to solve these puzzles though I still do have an occasional false start.
If you're looking for a sudoku book that will challenge you, this is probably a very good place to start.
Finally, a book without the simple puzzles included........2007-04-20
I am very pleased with this book. I have searched for a sudoku book that meets the following expectations and have finally found it:
1) doesn't include easy puzzles (I've done enough puzzles that I don't enjoy doing them, but feel guilty skipping perfectly good pages of a book)
2) promises that each puzzle is solvable by logic; and
3) includes volumes 2 through 4 that get increasingly more difficult.
Thank you Mensa for finally filling a niche in the every growing sudoku world.
Book Description
Top solvers can try their hand at the One-Sided Gordonian Rectangle; Extended Gordonian Rectangle; Gordonian Polygon; and Alternating Digits. (But they can take comfort in knowing that no more than one will occur in any single puzzle.)
Customer Reviews:
One of Best Sudoku Books.......2007-07-29
This is one of the best advanced sudoku books available. There are no puzzles at beginning or intermediate level. The paper is good quality and firm and takes pencil marks or ballpoint and erasures easily. The book is spiral bound and opens flat and easily. There are 242 puzzles of the highest degree of difficulty, two per page. The solutions at the back are all correct. If you are an advanced solver, this is an excellent book for you. It is not easy to find good, advanced sudoku books.
Book Description
The difficulty level soars, as even more tricks get added to the mix: X-Wing; Swordfish; XY-Wing; XYZ-Wing; and the Gordonian Rectangle.
Customer Reviews:
A stumper!!!!.......2007-08-10
I finally found a sudoku puzzle that can't be done in an hour. An awesome book.
Book Description
Even more interaction—this time used in combination with other procedures…and a lot more heavily than in the first book.
Customer Reviews:
I LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!!.......2007-08-09
These books are so nice! The puzzles are nice and big, and the paper is high quality, which definitely makes it easier. I concur with the previous reviewer, though. Volume 2 is not noticeably harder than Volume 1. However, Volumes 3 & 4 will wear you out! They did me (you might know all the crazy techniques I have yet to learn). The books are really well made and a pleasure to work. I enjoy them immensely, and I hope you do as well!!! :)
Good book, but not appreciably harder than level 1.......2007-08-06
I like this series quite a bit, however, I'm only giving this one 4 stars because as far as I can tell, the puzzles are not any harder than those in the first level. For my next purchase, I'm skipping level 3 and going right to level 4. Hopefully those will be harder. See my review of level 1 for why I like the series.
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Easy-to-Hard Mensa Sudoku (Mensa)
Frank Longo
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A super-sequel to Mensa® Sudoku—which will easily equal the popularity of the first, 145,000 copies sold and climbing! Written by Frank Longo, one of the best sudoku creators around, it offers 534 fantastic puzzles (all in the standard 9x9 format) that go from very simple to extremely hard. That means smart newcomers can get started solving immediately and hone their skills as they proceed logically through the book. By the end, they’ll have become experts, ready for any sudoku that comes their way.
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Mensa Sudoku
Michael Rios
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Repeat-Letter Sudoku (Mensa)
Walter Mackey
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Double letters mean double fun for puzzle mavens, who will sharpen their pencils and their wits to solve these clever sudoku variations. Conceived by the man who has been creating sudoku longer than anyone alive, they dispense with one of the standard rules of the game: no repeats. Instead, these brainteasers include at least one letter that occurs two times in every row, column, and diagonal. That makes it harder to eliminate possibilities and complete the grid. And there’s more: in every spread, the phrases in the two sudoku are related. So, one might have “breakfast,” while the other has “cold pizza”; “dentistry” and “candy bars”; and “eyestrain” and “nude beach.”
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Sudoku Mensa
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Comprehensive Overview of Radio Broadcast Production.......2004-08-07
This is a highly practical textbook on the how and why of radio broadcast production. Based on the experience of the author in radio production, the book covers a broad range of radio programming and provides a sound understanding of radio production.
The book begins with a comprehensive discussion of the characteristics of radio, including its strengths and weaknesses as a medium of communications. There's also an introduction to typical studio layouts, including a discussion of the pros and cons of using CDs, records, and tapes in the production of radio programs.
There is extensive information on how to interview people under a variety of circumstances, with particular emphasis on how the interviewer should prepare for the various types of interview. There are also specific sections on how to prepare to be interviewed and how to do 'man in the street' interviews.
The book covers an extremely wide range of radio programming situations, providing practical and effective advice for each. Particular attention is given to news programs, from the issues involved with news item selection to how best to write and read news scripts. Additional topics covered include talk show and phone-in radio programs, making radio commercials, music programming techniques, handling remote broadcasts and commentaries. There are also sections on radio drama production and documentaries that discusses everything from sound effects to music and the acoustic environment.
The author is Robert McLeish, an independent consultant and trainer and past head of the BBC's management training program. With many years in radio production, the author currently teaches radio production around the world and advises small stations in development countries.
The book includes an extensive glossary of terms used in radio production and a selection of suggested books of various aspects of radio broadcasting.
I recommend this book for anyone wanting a comprehensive overview of radio broadcast production.
Review by Mike Powers, Radideo.com Guide, February 2000
You need to Read This one.......2000-08-03
Pick this book up and you'll be just about set to venture out and set up your own radio station. If you have an interest in broadcasting, radio, internet radio, or anything near being similar to radio, you need to read this book.
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