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Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters by Alex Bellos (Paperback, 2017)

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From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems? The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?

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The Japanese logic puzzle is one of the most addictive products known to man. Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet the puzzle masters behind these habit-forming brainteasers and brought back over 200 puzzles that will flex, stretch, and blow your mind. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja? Puzzles are so enjoyable. They get your brain sparking and the competitive spirit flowing. Solving them is one of life's simple pleasures. The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles, so Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet them. These enigmatologists include the godfather of Sudoku, the winner of the World Puzzle Championships, an inspiring teacher who uses games to enliven his students' maths lessons, and the puzzle poet whose name has become a Sudoku solving technique. They use noms de guerre - Edamame, Lenin, Teatime, Sesame Egg - and each has a distinctive style. What unites them are their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen your mind. Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces 20 new types of addictive problems including Shakashaka and Marupeke. Arm yourself with pencil, eraser and laser-like focus. Let's get puzzling ...

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PublisherGuardian Faber Publishing

ISBN-139781783351367

eBay Product ID (ePID)239569043

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Book TitlePuzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against the Japanese Puzzle Masters

AuthorAlex Bellos

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicGames

Publication Year2017

Number of Pages288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height198mm

Item Width153mm

Item Weight378g

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Title_AuthorAlex Bellos

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by hele-reyno
09 Mar, 2018
Too complicated
I know I'm not very intelligent, but I am quite good at Sudoko. From the description of the book which I read in New Scientist, I thought it would be an opportunity to branch out with other types of puzzles. Unfortunately, I don't think the author has dedicated enough practical advice to decipher/complete the puzzles he has chosen to include in his book. I am really disappointed. If the puzzles were given adequate explanation, with lots of examples of how to solve them, this book would definitely have been for me.
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