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A Panoply of Puzzles (new for 2023) is my first wide-ranging variety book. It contains 405 puzzles, including plenty of Sudoku, my Star Battle (Two Not Touch) puzzles as seen in the New York Times, Suguru, Ripple Effect, Galaxies (Tentai Shō), Bridges (Hashi), and some beautiful Slitherlink puzzles in an assortment of fun tessellations.
It is also sprinkled throughout with some lovely and original pen-and-ink illustrations of hedgehogs solving puzzles in cosy breakfast nooks..
New for 2023, I have three Sudoku variety books suitable for your Sudoku-loving friends! Each book contains 60 Classic Sudoku, and 200 additional puzzles in several fun variations, great for building your puzzle-solving skills!
Sudoku Emergency Kit features X, Hyper, Consectuve, and Jigsaw Sudoku. Where did I put my Sudoku Book? features X, Hyper, Greater-than, and Jigsaw Sudoku. Gluten-free Sudoku features X, Even-Odd, Consecutive, and Jigsaw Sudoku.
Two Not Touch, available in 10 volumes, has been my most-popular book, since it was first published in 2020. Each volume contains 360 Star Battle puzzles, as seen in the New York Times.
These books are also available as PDFs, specially reformatted for the Kindle Scribe and Remarkable 2 e-ink tablets, at a substantial discount. You'll find the PDFs at my Etsy shop. I personally find the Kindle Scribe to be the best e-ink stylus device at the moment, due to its back-light, but the Remarkable is pretty great too. These are the closest you'll get to a pencil/paper experience while saving some trees. Here's a free sample of the PDF version.
I also have 6 (print-only) volumes of Diabolical Two Not Touch puzzles, for readers who like an extra challenge. Finally, my book Star Battle Puzzles, published by Puzzlewright Press, is probably the only book of mine you can find in retail stores at the moment (I found one hiding next to the Sudoku books at my local Barnes and Noble!). This book contains 1-star, 2-star, and 3-star puzzles.
My regular Killer Sudoku has 360 puzzles, four puzzles-per-page. Psycho Killer Sudoku is a similar book with especially hard puzzles. Both of these books are available in 3 volumes.
I also publish a LARGE PRINT version of both of these books, with just one puzzle per page, which have 108 puzzles.
I have several Kakuro books. Large Kakuro (in 3 volumes) features 99 full-page, satisfying puzzles.
Tough Kakuro (also in 3 volumes) features similarly large puzzles that are especially difficult to solve. I have a single volume of small 6x6 Kakuro (300 puzzles in one book). Finally, my Krypto Kakuro book is for fans of my original twist on Kakuro that uses encrypted clues, similar to cryptograms.
I have published three volumes of Battleships Attack, a solitaire form of the classic game of Battleship .
Each volume contains 216 puzzles, two-per-page and there are a wide variety of fleet formations (numbers of ships) to keep things interesting.
Suguru, also known as Tectonics or Number Blocks were invented in Japan by Naoki Inaba, a very prolific puzzle designer. These puzzles have very simple instructions, but a very wide spectrum of difficulties, ranging from easy to insanely challenging.
My Easy and Challenging Suguru books both feature smaller puzzles, 4 puzzles-per-page, 300 puzzles in all.
My Stupendous Suguru books feature significantly larger puzzles printed one to a page, 108 puzzles in all.
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