The world has fallen in love with Sudoku and now it's hungry for more! In Will Shortz Presents Beyond Sudoku, Puzzlemaster Will Shortz introduces Sudoku fans to the next generation of logic puzzles from Japan. These puzzles--including Masyu, Nurikabe, Hashiwokakero, and Slitherlink--have become wildly popular in Japan and are ready to make their way to an eager American audience. Features: · 100 all-new puzzles · Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz · Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

The Sudoku craze took the world by storm, but now puzzle addicts are hungry for new challenges. This 'variety pack' of Japanese logic puzzles not only includes the new favourite, kakuro, but also introduces the addictive brilliance of hanjie, the deceptive simplicity of fillomino and the deductive reasoning of mosaic. Teasing, playful and extremely satisfying, this collection shows that there is more to Japanese puzzles than just the S-word.

Ready to take your sudoku skills to the next level? Beyond Sudoku features more than 150 ingenious puzzles with extra regions indicated by colored squares or colored dotted lines. The play of patterns and colors makes each grid a unique work of art, and there's only one new rule: no numbers may repeat in the extra regions. But that simple rule takes you Beyond Sudoku to a new world of challenges and fun!

"If you have to ask, IT'S TOO HARD FOR YOU"--Cover.

With every puzzle requiring upper-level strategies, this collection packs even more of a punch than Beyond Black Belt Sudoku. You'll encounter common advanced techniques with curious-sounding names like Sashimi X-Wing, Swordfish, and Gordonian Polygon, as well as some tricky new things, including Grouped X-Cycle and 3D Medusa. The puzzles grow increasingly difficult as the book goes along, from "pretty darn hard" to "excruciating."

In the wake of the so-called digital revolution numerous attempts have been made to rethink and redesign what scholarly publications can or should be. Beyond the Flow examines the technologies as well as narratives driving this unfolding transformation. However, facing challenges such as the serial crisis, knowledge burying or sudoku research the discourses and practices of scholarly publishing today are mainly shaped by confusion, heterogeneity and uncertainty. By critically interrogating the current state of digital publishing in academia the book asks for how a sustainable post-digital publishing ecology can be imagined.

Sudoku Programming with C teaches you how to write computer programs to solve and generate Sudoku puzzles. This is a practical book that will provide you with everything you need to write your own books of Sudoku Classic and Samurai puzzles. But be warned: after reading it, you'll discover that the puzzles in your local paper are not so challenging after all! We like Sudokus because they test our capacity to recognize and interpret patterns. But how are the clues generated? Where do those quasi-symmetrical configurations come from? When the author explored the Web to find out, he discovered that there were many sites that explained how to solve Sudokus, but none that told him how create them. He also saw many sites and apps to play Sudoku, but, perhaps not surprising, no indication of how they worked. So, he had to develop his own applications in order to find out. And, from the very start, he decided that he would publish the code for anyone else to use and perhaps tinker with, but the author wrote it in such a way that also lets readers with limited knowledge of programming techniques understand it. In fact, you could decide to start generating thousands of puzzles almost immediately, and go through the explanations of algorithms and techniques later, a bit at a time. The author chose to write the application in ‘plain old C’ because he wanted to make the code accessible to as many people as possible. In this book, you will find an explanation of all solving strategies, and the code to implement them. Writing the Solver application was more difficult than writing the Generator, because it required designing and implementing each strategy separately. However, the author wanted to include a solving program capable of listing the strategies necessary to solve any particular puzzle. He also wanted to check whether a puzzle was solvable analytically, without any guessing. This book includes the full listings of both the Generator and the Solver, and explanations of all C modules, with walk-throughs and examples.