The Times Japanese Logic Puzzles

A great book with clear instructions. Start of easy and gradually get harder to improve skills. All of the puzzles are addicting and I can't put the book down! I particularly liked the Hashi puzzles and have since bought The Times Hashi book 1!

Recommended to all logic puzzlers, especially for those looking for an alternative to the Sudoku craze which dominates the market. The book contains 75 Hashi, 30 Hitori, 20 Mosaic and 75 Slitherlink. Of these, Hashi was my favourite before I came across but I've recently become a converted Slitherlink addict!

Puzzles for the afficionado. Bought as a present but proved a bit harder for the recipient than I expected.

Quite a few of the puzzles had been worked on - I suppose that's buying a second hand puzzle book for you

An interesting mix of logic problems to expand your logic skills. There are 4 types of puzzles - mosaic is "minesweeper" with a minor twist. Hashi and slitherlink are two variants on "join the dots". Hitori is a number grid where you have to remove the duplicates. The four types of puzzles use completely different reasoning skills, and different also to standard sudoku and its numerous variants. My main complaint is that the instructions were very (too?) brief, I needed to refer to the solutions for the first couple of puzzles to understand the logic for ongoing puzzles. I found the puzzles be more intuitive than standard sudoku (& variants). After completing a dozen or more examples of each one, I still hadn't understood the logic or the subtleties of each. As such I didnt have a feeling of achievement when I completed a puzzle - in comparison to when I crack a complicated sudoko variant on the first attempt! The book held boredom at bay over several long haul flights but I shall stick to killer sudoku and extreme kenken in future...

I had discovered "Bridges" in a newspaper and wanted to try some more. There was a huge variety in this publication - but at the end of the day, it is Sudoku that is really special. Not bad value though

Nice choice of puzzles but have been forced to abandon after finding errors in the solutions (ie incorrect number of bridges shown). Means you can't follow logical paths. I'd have expected more from a Times publication - bit of proof reading (or puzzle testing) should have picked this up easily.

Like many others, I was burned out from Sudoku and needed a change... and I'm glad I found this book! It has 4 different varieties of puzzles, enough to please different tastes. You also can't beat the price, esp since it's shipped from overseas. Give it a try!

Not all that huge, but these puzzles have the earmarks of great handmade art!! A great intro to these types of conundrums, and Conceptis also gave us the unusual Mosaics!!