The Times Su Doku Gift Set: The original best-selling puzzle: Bks. 1-3 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007222955 ISBN 13: 9780007222957

Publisher: Times Books, 2005

Synopsis

All kinds of people everywhere are going mad for Su Doku. Individually, The Times Su Doku Books 1,2 & 3 have been a sensational success enjoying unprecented levels of sales for puzzle books.

This elegant slipcase containing all three books will make an ideal purchase or gift for anyone who has recently discovered the joys of tackling Su Doku and great value at only £12.99.

For those still in the dark, Su Doku is a number grid consisting of 9 large squares each divided into 9 smaller squares. Between 3 and 4 numbers are already provided in each of the smaller squares. The point is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each book contains over 100 unpublished puzzles graded easy, mild, difficult and fiendish. The easy puzzles are the ideal way to get started and to build confidence before attempting to crack the more difficult levels. Don’t be put off if you cannot do a fiendish puzzle. Thousands of Su Doku addicts struggle with this level.

Wayne Gould, 59, is the brains behind this new craze and is becoming known as the Su Doku puzzle master. Now retired, he was a High Court judge in Hong Kong.

About this title

About the Author:

Gould was a lawyer for 13 years in Matamata, New Zealand, before coming to Hong Kong in 1982 where he worked his way up to become Chief District Judge in 1993. He retired from the Judiciary in 1997 and, that same year, during a visit to Japan, he was in a bookstore where, not knowing how to read or speak Japanese, he was drawn to the puzzle which he first thought was a crossword. He was intrigued and later on he decided to take it with him to the United States and Britain. After his initial retirement, in efforts to pass time and sharpen his computer skills, Gould developed the computer program that generates Sudoku puzzles. Wayne Gould says retirement can now wait as Sudoku keeps him busier than ever. He travels between his different bases; Lantau and New Hampshire in the United States, where his wife Gaye is a professor of linguistics, and other parts of the world to which his new hobby has taken him. He has two children, daughter Sally, 29, and son, Scott, 27.

About this edition

• Publisher: Times Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0007222955
• ISBN 13: 9780007222957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528