{"title":"Editors of Nikoli Publishing","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-original-sudoku-paperback","title":"The Original Sudoku - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrepare to be obsessed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Match wits with the experts who created Sudoku. Arranged from \"Easy\" to \"Very Hard,\" here are over 300 logic puzzles that celebrate the compulsive joy of Sudoku with symmetry, smartness, and elegance--qualities lacking in computer-generated puzzles. It's fiendish fun...every puzzle is designed by an author who anticipates your next step and obscurest the path, while never leading you into frustration. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrepare to Be Obsessed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatch wits with the experts who created Sudoku. Arranged from \"Easy\" to \"Very Hard,\" here are over 300 logic puzzles that \u003cb\u003ecelebrate the compulsive joy\u003c\/b\u003e of Sudoku with symmetry, smartness, and elegance--qualities lacking in computer-generated puzzles.\u003cb\u003e It's fiendish fun...\u003c\/b\u003eevery puzzle designed by an author who anticipates your next step and obscures the path, while never leading you into frustration.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51345086480607,"sku":"9780761142157","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rJZz5ixPiO9780761142157.webp?v=1788785463"},{"product_id":"more-original-sudoku-paperback","title":"More Original Sudoku - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver twenty years ago Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle and game company, started publishing a curious logic puzzle called Sudoku. The rest of the world recently joined the Sudoku craze by using computer programs to create puzzles, but Nikoli is the only company that still crafts their puzzles the old-fashioned way: by hand. As \u003ci\u003eAd Age\u003c\/i\u003e wrote in a profile, the Nikoli credo is \"The Best Puzzles Are Made by Happy Employees.\" And for solvers, it really does make a difference--there's an elegance and symmetry to the puzzles, plus a sense of interaction. The puzzle-maker knows just when to encourage, and when to withhold. Puzzles marked \"Easy,\" are easy because the puzzler leads you through. Those marked \"Very Hard\" are exactly that--they pit your mind against the mind of the master, who seems to share the joy of that moment when one hard-won number is captured, and the entire puzzle tumbles into place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An obsessive's collection, \u003ci\u003eMore Original Sudoku\u003c\/i\u003e features over 300 puzzles, all in a chunky, easy-to-carry format (it even fits into a standard jeans-size back pocket). An introduction shows how to solve the puzzles at various levels of difficulty, and it includes a tutorial on how to create your own hand-made Sudoku. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here's wishing you \u003ci\u003eGokouun o inorimasu!\u003c\/i\u003e (Good luck!)","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51345086611679,"sku":"9780761143970","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Lv5iZihbH09780761143970.webp?v=1788785463"},{"product_id":"x-treme-sudoku-paperback","title":"X-Treme Sudoku - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe next step, like having a whole book of just Saturday \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e crossword puzzles. Even more fiendish, even more fun, \u003ci\u003eX-treme Sudoku\u003c\/i\u003e proudly presents 320 puzzles rated \"Difficult\" to \"Very Difficult.\" These are the toughest, knottiest, most demanding Sudoku out there--prepare to have your brain cells crackle, your pencils melt, your mind obsessed with numbers and squares. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e No one is better than Nikoli at rounding up such a collection. A Japanese puzzle and game company that started the Sudoku craze over twenty years ago, Nikoli is known for creating the only handcrafted puzzles around. As Tim Preston, publishing director of Puzzler Media, Britain's biggest seller of crossword and cryptogram puzzles, has said: \"It is a matter of great pride to get your puzzle into one of Nikoli's magazines. Handmade puzzles are much better. . . . It gives you the satisfaction that you are pitting your wits against an individual who has thought about what your next step would be and has tried to obscure the path.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For \u003ci\u003eX-treme Sudoku\u003c\/i\u003e, the puzzle-makers at Nikoli went out of their way to obscure the path. There are puzzles with entire boxes empty. Puzzles with whole rows left blank. Puzzles that form mysteriously beautiful symmetries, but demand a calculating logic to solve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For the X-treme solver, paradise.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51345086742751,"sku":"9780761146223","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Iqh-jrNAVy9780761146223.webp?v=1788785465"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/editors-of-nikoli-publishing.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}