Will Shortz Presents Fast and Easy Sudoku

Are you a crossword lover or puzzle aficionado? Or have you always been curious to try? If so, you’re bound to love the latest puzzle craze that’s sweeping the country–sudoku! From New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes Quick and Easy Sudoku–150 fun and addictive sudoku puzzles, ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging. Try one puzzle–and you’ll be hooked!
 
Sudoku is easy! There’s just one basic rule: Fill in the empty boxes in the nine-by-nine grid, so that every row, column, and three-by-three square contains the numbers 1 through 9, without repeating. It’s a cinch! So what are you waiting for? Test your wits with sudoku!

Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.

“What gives sudoku brain cred? Dozens of book versions of the game carry the august authorship of Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword editor.”–Time magazine
 
“Diabolically addictive.”–The New York Post 
 “A puzzling global phenomenon.”–The Economist “The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935. Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family–think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!”–The Times of London
 
“England’s most addictive newspaper puzzle.”–New York magazine
 
“The latest craze in games.”–BBC News
 
“Sudoku are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what Rubik’s Cube was to the 1970s.”–The Daily Telegraph 
“Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids.”–Associated Press “Forget crosswords.”–The Christian Science Monitor