Sudoku for the Weekend

Description

Problem-solving can provide hours of entertainment with this collection of 150 puzzles from New York Times crossword editor and bestselling author Will Shortz. If you haven't already discovered the game that CNN calls "maddeningly addictive", you'll soon find out that playing sudoku is like eating potato chips: you can't stop with just one!

Will Shortz has been Crossword Editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the Puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has published hundreds of books of sudoku and crossword puzzles, and he recently starred in the hit documentary Wordplay. Will can be reached at www.crosswordtournament.com.

"A puzzling global phenomenon" --The Economist "The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935." --The Times of London "England's most addictive newspaper puzzle." --New York magazine "The latest craze in games" --BBC News "Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!" --The Times of London "Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s." --The Daily Telegraph "Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids." --Associated Press "Forget crosswords." --The Christian Science Monitor