The Official Book of Wordoku: Sudoku Puzzles for Word Lovers

I bought this for my cousin who loves doing crossword puzzles and sudoku. Sudoku was challenging enough for her, but wordoku is a beast. She loves the mental motivation.

I love the new type of puzzle called Wordoko--I had gotten bored with Suduko & was looking for something different & found it in Worduko.

I thought Sudoku was a little boring before I got this book. When you are done, all you had was a grid of numbers. With Wordoku, you discover the solution to a jumbled word. The nine letters are given in an order that makes them easy to remember, but still very difficult to guess the word upfront. There are a variety of difficulty levels, including the last 10 puzzles where only 8 of the letters are given, so you can't really guess the word until you solve the puzzle. I definately recommend to Sudoku and word puzzle lovers. It's very addictive and a great way to take a break or pass time on a flight, etc. My only complaint is that they haven't come out with Wordoku 2 yet, so I'm forced to print more puzzles off the internet instead.

I got into playing Sudoku puzzles a few months ago, and I have to say that it's addicting! Every night now I find myself doing at least one puzzle - it's hard to put them down! This particular book combines Sudoku with word puzzles. So, instead of filling the grids with the numbers 1 through 9, you're filling the grids in with specific letters - and, when you're done, you get to try to solve the anagram of the letters given by finding that 9 letter word within the grid. In case you haven't played Sudoku before, it's a numbers (in this case letters) logic puzzle. You're given a 9x9 grid, and you have to determine which numbers/letters go into which square within the smaller 3x3 grid, and then again within the larger 9x9 grid. Each letter/number can only be used once within each square, row and column. You do this by working off of the few answers given - deducing the correct answers along the way. The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that each puzzle has a different set of letters to work with - so every time you do a new puzzle, you have to memorize the letters that are being used. I found that it helps if I try to solve the anagram first - that way I only have to remember that one word as I work through solving the puzzle. Overall, I found it to be a fun twist to the traditional Sudoku. So, if you like this type of logic puzzle, you may want to give this a try.