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Kakuro is a more interesting puzzle in my opinion. I give this one two stars only because there aren't many Kakuro books available. Anyway, in this volume there are too many mistakes and even the so-called "Hard" puzzle are fairly simple. Sudoku on the other hand has probably a thousand. Go figure. The Black Belt, Brown Belt, etc series and the Mensa Kakuro books are much better. These puzzles seem to be thrown together by someone who understands the concept, but is neither creative nor insightful in making puzzles.
This is the easiest book of kakuro I have ever done. I can even do most of the hard puzzles by eye-balling, which I can usually only do in easy puzzles. While I do enjoy the ego stroking, this book does not present much challenge.
The Official Book of Kakuro has enough information to get a beginner started with Kakuro. And then more challenging puzzles to keep one interested. I am addicted to Kakuro.
I hate Kakuro books where you are suppose to guess "wildly" and cannot be solved through pure logic. This is NOT one of those.So puzzles might seem less challenging to people who like to use "trial and error" but, for the rest of us, it has plenty of challenging situations that can be solved logically.It does include some puzzles with more than one answer. So I can't give it 5 stars. But, on the other hand, I haven't found one that doesn't.
There are an equal number of Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles. There are also instructions and tips if you have never played before. If you are like me and have been doing Cross Sums for years, you will enjoy the medium and hard puzzles. Now I'm waiting for Extreme Kakuro.
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