about 9 years ago - Comments Off
Wow, it is a long time since I posted here. So much to do, so little time!
I might as well keep it brief now, then. Here’s a puzzle for April 1st (it’s actually a normal puzzle without tricks – it just spells ‘FOOL’ in the given numbers). Place 1 to 9 in each row, column More >
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
Sudoku Box-Jigsaw 9×9 1 puzzleI haven’t posted a puzzle for a good while, so I thought it was time to fix that with this Box-Jigsaw Sudoku puzzle.
The puzzle combines regular Sudoku with Jigsaw Sudoku. Just place 1 to 9 once each into all of the nine rows, columns, 3×3 boxes (indicated by both shaded and More >
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
A brand new book, packed with 101 Jumbo 3D Sudoku, is now available for purchase from Amazon. You can either search for this directly, or you can click through via my PuzzleBooks.org site – the book is at the very bottom of that page, and clicking on it will take you direct to the correct More >
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
Jumbo 3D sudoku puzzleI haven’t posted for a while so I thought I should post one of my new puzzles. This one is a Jumbo 3D Sudoku, where the aim is simply to place 1 to 9 into each black-lined 3×3 area as well as each of the 54 rows indicated by the coloured lines. More >
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
Product Killer Sudoku 9×9 puzzle
If you’re interested in sudoku, come along to the official UK sudoku championship next weekend, the 29th-30th of March, at Selsdon Park Hotel just south of London, outside Croydon. There’s full details on the UK Puzzle Association site. There’s still spaces available.
Mind you, it’s not just sudoku – there’s also the More >
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
Valentine SudokuA quick heart-shaped sudoku for Valentine’s Day. Just place 1 to 9 once each in every row, column and bold-lined box.
about 10 years ago - Comments Off
Sudoku Xtra 24 is now finally available! It’s packed with 130 puzzles of a wide range of types, including a huge variety of sudoku variants.
This issue I’ve included a very wide range
of variants, including some new ones such as Two-grid Interconnected Sudoku, Mystery Multiple
Sudoku and Blackout Sudoku. Meanwhile I’ve made an effort to include More >
about 11 years ago - Comments Off
Sudoku Christmas Star puzzleA Sudoku, in a star shape.
Just that. (Place 1-9 once each into every row, column and bold-lined 3×3 box).
about 11 years ago - Comments Off
I’m currently working on a forthcoming book (The Mammoth Book of Brain Workouts, published next year in the UK by Constable & Robinson, and in the US by Running Press), and have been experimenting with something I wrote about briefly a few years ago but hadn’t really tried since – variants on Numberlink.
Numberlink puzzles have More >
about 11 years ago - Comments Off
I’ve recently launched a new series of ‘101 Giant Sudoku’ books, to cater for those who like their Sudoku to be considerably larger than normal!
You can see the entire series at PuzzleBooks.org (scroll to the bottom) or visit Amazon and search for “101 giant sudoku”.
There are currently 12 books in the series: 14×14, 15×15, 16×16, 18×18, More >
about 15 years ago
I solved this one pretty quick – under ten minutes (didn’t time myself exactly), but I definitely enjoyed it. The 10×10 part wasn’t necessarily tough, but it did make for a nice change.
It’d be interesting to try a 10×10 Killer Pro puzzle.
And as for the single cages, I still think they are a little pointless , though I don’t really mind them. In this puzzle it seemed like there were a lot of them. Maybe I’m imagining this.
Regardless, I like it. Nice work.
about 15 years ago
Yes, nice little twist having to get your brain used to different combinations of numbers, but as Andrew said it was pretty quick to solve. Thanks for all these new puzzles – a real change from the standard types.
about 15 years ago
I like killers, and this was a fun alternative. I completed it in a few minutes. Since only the “10″ value was added, I made that the single-digit Roman Numeral “X” to avoid writing in 2 values per square.
And speaking of double-digit values, I finally bit the bullet and bought your Sudoku Pro puzzle book. I had trouble in the past justifying not completing the 8 or so pages of 16×16 and 25×25 sudokus that I don’t like (OCD that I am). However, I get much enjoyment from the puzzles here and puzzlemix that I’ll throw some support your way. Cheers.
about 15 years ago
Thanks very much for buying the magazine! In a previous couple of issues a year or two ago we removed the 25×25s entirely and had just two 16×16s, and believe it or not there were enough complaints that we had to put them back in! I guess if you want these puzzles they’re pretty hard to find published elsewhere.
If you complete all of the rest of the puzzles that’s pretty good going!
For anyone who doesn’t know what we’re talking about, click through to the Sudoku Pro magazine homepage – there’s a free 20-page sample you can download.
about 15 years ago
I admit this one was easier than I intended when I rated it – somehow I didn’t realise that testing it using only easy maths logic with hard Sudoku logic didn’t make much sense, since you could just use slightly more complex maths logic to bypass the hard Sudoku logic! If that makes any sense. Obviously I was having a slow afternoon…