Mastering Sudoku Week by Week

Mastering Sudoku Week by Week
Author: Paul Stephens
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781844834051

Sudoku has become an addiction for millions--and that’s great, because mind games help keep our brains in good working order. But even though the rules are simple, many solvers need some help when cracking the more complicated grids. That support is here in abundance...enough to take to you into the realm of the Very Difficult and even the Fiendish. Using this attractive guide, solvers will smoothly progress through 52 stages, each with a self-testing and timed puzzle to monitor progress. Chock-full of tactics and tips, and drawing on strategies evolved by Sudoku experts from Japan, Europe, and the United States, this little book takes you to the top.

Fun with Algorithms

Fun with Algorithms
Author: Evangelos Kranakis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642303471

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference, FUN 2012, held in June 2012 in Venice, Italy. The 34 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They feature a large variety of topics in the field of the use, design, and analysis of algorithms and data structures, focusing on results that provide amusing, witty but nonetheless original and scientifically profound contributions to the area.

Sudoku Addict's Workbook

Sudoku Addict's Workbook
Author: Paul Stephens
Publisher: Duncan Baird
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2008-02-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781844835874

Written by a sudoku solving expert, this workbook offers 150 puzzles generated by a software program. It includes an introduction that covers major techniques from pairs and triples to X-wing, swordfish and non-unique rectangles. Each of the puzzles has accompanying tips for those who feel they need a helping hand, and a grade-yourself time score.

How to Play Sudoku

How to Play Sudoku
Author: Howexpert Press
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-10-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539314769

If you want to learn the basics of playing Sudoku puzzles quickly and easily for newbies and beginners, then get this "How To Play Sudoku" guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will rep the following benefits: - Be familiar with the the game rules. - Learn the basic way of doing Sudoku. - Get useful tips in solving Sudoku puzzle. - Be able to solve Sudoku puzzle in the shortest time possible. - Learn how to appropriately choose a candidate. - Solve different levels of Sudoku puzzle. - Amaze your friends and family to your new found hobby of solving sudoku. - And much more! Click "Buy Now" to get it now!

Puzzlewright Guide to Solving Sudoku

Puzzlewright Guide to Solving Sudoku
Author: Frank Longo
Publisher: Puzzlewright
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402799457

Sudoku designers the world over will weep and gnash their teeth at the revelations in this comprehensive guide to cracking the addictive puzzles--but solvers will find it absolutely invaluable as they seek to improve their skills. Even experts don't know all these tricks: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, and chains, plus the exclusive Gordonian logic methods that turn the toughest puzzles into a breeze. There are hundreds of sudoku to practice on. A special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published "

How to Solve Sudoku

How to Solve Sudoku
Author: Robin Wilson
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781904902621

Mathematician and bestselling author Robin Wilson--himself a sudoku aficionado--offers 52 tried and tested tips and tactics for solving these brainteasers.

Taking Sudoku Seriously

Taking Sudoku Seriously
Author: Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0199913153

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve as acceptable Sudoku regions? What is the fewest number of starting clues a sound Sudoku puzzle can have? Does solving Sudoku require mathematics? Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman show that answering these questions opens the door to a wealth of interesting mathematics. Indeed, they show that Sudoku puzzles and their variants are a gateway into mathematical thinking generally. Among many topics, the authors look at the notion of a Latin square--an object of long-standing interest to mathematicians--of which Sudoku squares are a special case; discuss how one finds interesting Sudoku puzzles; explore the connections between Sudoku, graph theory, and polynomials; and consider Sudoku extremes, including puzzles with the maximal number of vacant regions, with the minimal number of starting clues, and numerous others. The book concludes with a gallery of novel Sudoku variations--just pure solving fun! Most of the puzzles are original to this volume, and all solutions to the puzzles appear in the back of the book or in the text itself. A math book and a puzzle book, Taking Sudoku Seriously will change the way readers look at Sudoku and mathematics, serving both as an introduction to mathematics for puzzle fans and as an exploration of the intricacies of Sudoku for mathematics buffs.

God-Level Knowledge Darts

God-Level Knowledge Darts
Author: Desus & Mero
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0525512330

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Desus & Mero are smarter and funnier than everyone writing books.”—Shea Serrano “I will never write anything as hilarious as they have. I give up.”—Malcolm Gladwell “These motherf***ers make me laugh until I choke.”—Jia Tolentino NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR A wild, hilarious guide to life from the hosts of the hit late-night show Desus & Mero and the Bodega Boys podcast Who could have predicted that, after a fateful meeting in a Bronx summer school in the 1990s, Desus & Mero would turn their friendship into an empire of talking to each other. And it’s no surprise—tuning in to them is like listening to the funniest, smartest people you know dissect a topic and then light it on fire. Now they’ve written the most essential guide to life of this century*, in which all the important questions are asked: How do I talk to my kids about drugs if I do them, too? What are the ethics of ghosting in a relationship? How do I bet on sports? How should I behave in jail? How much is too much to spend on sneakers? Is porn really that bad for me? As they put it: “We want to share all we’ve learned, after years in the Bronx streets, with you: the people. So with a lifetime spent building up a plethora of information from trials and tribulations and a handful of misdemeanors, we decided to write this book—a sequel to the Bible, or maybe to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,depending on how big a nerd you are. Let this book be your North Star.” *NO REFUNDS

Sudoku Solving Techniques

Sudoku Solving Techniques
Author: Sam Aaron
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781493624522

Whether you are a complete beginner or have already acquired some solving skills, this book will be extremely helpful. For beginners it explains what Sudoku is, and deals fully with the basic solving techniques. For solvers already able to complete puzzles graded as Easy or Moderate, but who find themselves up against a brick wall when faced with more difficult puzzles, the book describes and demonstrates a selected range of techniques which will enable them to go further and solve all the puzzles likely to be encountered in newspapers or puzzle books, from Easy through Hard and Very Hard to Diabolical. There are 84 pages to explain the mysteries of scanning, matching pairs, twins, triplets and quads, pointing and claiming, the use of rectangles and other 4-sided figures, X-wings and X-Y wings, swordfish, jellyfish, turbot fish, and chains and loops. These explanatory pages are followed by 30 graded puzzles, ranging from Easy to Diabolical, with which to test the techniques described in the book. A novel feature is that the puzzles come with fully reasoned solutions and detailed explanations which, by taking you through all the logical steps, show exactly how each puzzle was solved and what solving techniques were used to do so. These provide in themselves a valuable aid to mastering the techniques..