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Will Shortz Presents The Little Gift Book of KenKen: 250 Logic Puzzles That Make You Smarter (Will Shortz Presents...) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tetsuya Miyamoto, Will Shortz
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 19667
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0312558511
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780312558512
ASIN: 0312558511
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
KenKen can be described simply as sudoku with basic math (addition, subtraction and/or multiplication and division). It’s a fun, addictive, clever puzzle that’s winning fans the world over. Already more than one million KenKen books have been sold in Japan and is a huge hit in The Times of London. Now, America can catch KenKen fever! This gift edition includes 250 KenKen puzzles with “How to Solve” instructions and an introduction by puzzlemaster Will Shortz in a sturdy and stylish hardcover.
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Starting from Sudoku, this is too easy... November 11, 2008
I must admit that when I saw the 250 on the cover, for 250 puzzles, I was hoping for a challenging book for a puzzle fan that would last a long time, rather than a book you can give to your 10-year-old kids or grandmothers who find the easy/medium Sudoku puzzles too difficult.
A glance was enough to see that no puzzle in this book would take more than 5 minutes to solve.
The Times' online Kenken puzzles are quite nice, and I believe that Kenken is a nice new puzzle, which has some advantages as compared to Sudoku. But if you want a new challenge, I would rather go in the direction of Extreme Sudoku, or some other Japanese puzzles.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to try out any of the other Kenken books, and after this disappointment I think I will stick to online puzzles until someone decides to give me a Kenken book for X-mas. I would think that some of those books would offer significantly harder puzzles than this one.
Despite my unfavorable opinion on this book, I don't think the book as such is bad, and it might go very well in some audiences - it just did not live up to my expectations!
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