Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All

by Peter Gordon, Frank Longo

Here it 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, 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 a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games magazine!

Genres: Puzzles, Reference

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2006

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Reviews

[Ry Book Suraski · Rating 5 out of 5]

best sudoku book i've read so far. Gordon's writing has a pleasantly personal voice for something like this, and includes advanced techniques i've never even heard of!

[Albert · Rating 4 out of 5]

To date this is the best Sudoku book I have read. The explanations of solution methods are more clearly presented and logically organized than with other comparable efforts. Gordon also doesn't exhaust you by covering every step of solving a puzzle once the basic methods have been reviewed. I felt like I made more progress as a result than I have with anything else I have read, either online or in book form.