Widely regarded as the world s most prolific wellspring of logic games and brainteasers ... if anyone comes up with the next craze, it will be Nikoli "The New York Times"Just a few simple rules lead to an endless variety of fascinating logical possibilities with nurikabe. Shade the grid so that it contains a connected river of black squares. Each number in the grid is part of a different island, and the number indicates how many white squares that island contains. Also, no 2-by-2 square in the grid may be colored entirely black."

In this monster book with more than 400 mind-bending puzzles, Mepham brings his famous Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles together with three puzzles that are now taking over Japan: Hitori, Masyu, and Nurikabe.

Finally, there's a compendium of all the wicked puzzles from Nikoli! For millions of fans worldwide, that's big news. Nikoli, publisher of Japan's very first puzzle magazine, and a sudoku superpower, offers up a selection of akari, fillomino, hashi, heyawake, hitori, LITS, masyu, number link, nurikabe, ripple effect, shikaku, slitherlink, yajilin, and the perennial favorite, sudoku. The rules to these puzzles may seem simple (how hard could a maze without walls be?), but finding the solution can be diabolically difficult. The dozens of teasers here guarantee hours of fun, and tax your brain cells to the max!

The Art of Puzzles is a collection of mental masterpieces from the world's most talented puzzle designers. With ten genres of logic puzzles and over 270 puzzles in total, this book has a great mix of challenges including shading puzzles (Tapa and Nurikabe), loop puzzles (Masyu and Slitherlink), number placement puzzles (Skyscrapers and TomTom), object placement puzzles (Star Battle and Battleships), and region division puzzles (Cave and Fillomino). Each section has a mix of very easy to fiendishly hard puzzles, with hints for every puzzle to help you to become a better logic puzzler.

We are living in puzzling's golden age right now." --Will Shortz, New York Times A colossal assortment of the six most popular Japanese puzzles--Sudoku, Sodoku X, Kakuro, Masyu, Hitori, and Nurikabe--ranging in difficulty from gentle to diabolical. A collection of four hundred puzzles-six different types of mind-bending games-ranging in difficulty levels so that players of every level will be challenged. Features include a complete answer key along with short, illustrated tutorials for each game-which proves particularly useful for the less familiar challenges, including: * Hitori: The ultimate logic teaser. Begin with a complete Sudoku grid and the object is to "paint" out blocks so that no number appears twice in any row or column. * Masyu: A charming but sophisticated invention where you are required to "string" black-and-white "pearls" with a series of vertical and horizontal lines that form a continuous loop. * Nurikabe: Beginning with a grid of squares scattered with numbers seemingly placed at random, the idea is to paint the black squares to make walls, leaving patches of white behind.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving Hoshi Sudoku. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Wordoku Pro. You start with easy Wordoku puzzles and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Wordoku puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Hoshi Sudoku - Easy to Extreme is a collection of 276 puzzles: 54 easy Hoshi Sudoku puzzles 54 medium Hoshi Sudoku puzzles 54 hard Hoshi Sudoku puzzles 54 extreme Hoshi Sudoku puzzles 60 extra logic puzzles Hoshi Sudoku consists of six large triangles. You must place the numbers 1-9 into the triangular cells of each large triangle. Every line, even an uncontinuous line, contains every number only once. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Hoshi Sudoku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other PuzzleBooks.net books.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Samurai Sudoku is Sudoku on steroids. It combines 5 Sudoku's into one large fun and addicting logic puzzle game that will give you hours of puzzle pleasure. This book is ideal for beginners to learn Samurai Sudoku. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Only 1 Samurai Sudoku puzzle per page, with lots of white space for scribbling. Samurai Sudoku consists of five 9x9 grids, one in the center and the other 4 overlapping each corner grid of the central one. For each 9x9 grid the goal is to fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Samurai Sudoku - Easy is a collection of 159 puzzles: 120 easy Samurai Sudoku puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Samurai Sudoku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other PuzzleBooks.net books. Samurai Sudoku is also known as Gattai-5.