Sudoku Xtra Complete
Sudoku Xtra issue 1 is now ready! It won’t appear on Amazon.com for up to a week or so – it takes a while for them to update their databases and so on, but it is on Lulu.com already if you want a printed version. For the printed version it will cost £4.99 for UK customers, but Lulu do charge postage and packaging on top of that. (Lulu do however often have discount vouchers, so you might manage to get some money off the total).
The magazine is 44 pages long, each page 8 inches by 10 inches (20cm by 25cm), and with exactly 100 puzzles in. It prints really well on both A4 and Letter paper, either 1-up (one page per sheet) or 2-up (two pages per sheet) as you prefer. There is a small preview on the Lulu site if you’d like to see what you’re getting (or read back through previous posts here too!). If you order the printed Lulu version you will actually get some extra blank pages at the back to make it up to their minimum page count for an A4 publication, so ignore the page count on the Lulu description.
Click here for a printed copy of the magazine: Sudoku Xtra issue 1 on Lulu
I haven’t yet set up the subscriber ordering site (it will be at SudokuXtra.com hopefully within 24 hours), but if you want to get in right away you can click directly on the Paypal buttons below, and then I will email you a PDF version of the magazine within 24 hours. Once the website is up and running you’ll receive the magazine immediately, so this is just temporary for the next day or two.
If you’re in the US or Canada and want a printed copy you have three choices: wait for it to appear on Amazon in a week or more (you might want to do this to get free delivery as part of a larger order), order from Lulu using the link above, or (for the 8″ x 10″ Amazon.com version but without the option of free postage) order a printed copy of Sudoku Xtra from CreateSpace.com instead, who supply the printed copies for Amazon (in fact they’re owned by Amazon too).
However the best option of all for me – the one where I get most money from the sale – is to order a download version and print it yourself. You can print either the whole magazine or just the pages you choose. If you’d like to do this you also have the option to subscribe for a year (12 issues) for the price of 11 issues, if you’re keen! This also insures you against any price rises that might happen in the coming year. Just click one of the four Paypal purchase buttons below.
Note that when buying on Paypal you can click the ‘Continue’ link next to “Don’t have a Paypal account?” to pay directly with a credit card – you don’t need to create a Paypal account if you don’t already have one. The checkout process will say ‘PuzzleMix.com’, which is another of my sites.
Issue 1 @ £3.99 GBP | Issue 1 @ $5.99 USD |
Or for a 12-issue subscription:
Issues 1-12 @ £43.89 GBP | Issues 1-12 @ $65.89 USD |
Thanks in advance, and I hope you enjoy the magazine!
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about 15 years ago
Your preview does not show any 16×16 sudoku. I plan to subscribe but need to know how many of these are included before I do as they are what I like to solve. Can you let me know?
thanks
Cathy
about 15 years ago
Hi Cathy,
Here’s a list of all Sudoku puzzles in issue 1 which are larger than 9×9:
2x Samurai Star
1x Samurai Sudoku
1x Samurai Sudoku Jigsaw
1x Skyscraper Samurai Star Sudoku
1x Samurai Star Calcudoku
2x Sudoku 12×12
2x Sudoku 16×16
1x Sudoku 20×20
1x Sudoku 25×25
So that’s 12 out of 100 puzzles which are large Sudoku or large Sudoku variants, at least in issue 1. There are certainly some other larger puzzles, but those aren’t Sudoku.
If you are only interested in 16×16 specifically then Sudoku Xtra won’t be as good for you as Sudoku Pro, but if on the other hand you also like other Sudoku variants then I think you’ll find that there’s literally nothing else like Sudoku Xtra available.
I certainly plan to make a book of just 16×16 puzzles available shortly, but this will probably not be until December. I thought I might start a series of specialist interest puzzle type magazines called “Sudoku Xtra Special Edition”, or possibly “Sudoku Xtra Extra”! So for example “Sudoku 16×16 Volume 1: Sudoku Xtra Special Edition” might be the first title of that sort. Now I finally have much of the ‘infrastructure’ set up I should be able to do this fairly straightforwardly…
Gareth