These have been sought from the enigmatologists of Japan and are very different to the puzzles that you may have come across so far. For those that want to stretch themselves some more, then Alex Bellos has been over to Japan and has come home bearing puzzle shaped gifts. Sitting down to do the crossword or Sudoku in a paper gives most people a lot of pleasure, it stretches your brain and enables you to while away a few moments away from a screen of some sort. What unites them are their megawatt brainsĪnd the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen your mind.īellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over 20 new types of addictive problems including Shakashaka and Marupeke.Īrm yourself with pencil, eraser and laser-like focus. They use noms de guerre - Edamame, Lenin, Teatime, Sesame Egg - and each has a distinctive style. These enigmatologists include the god-father of Sudoku, the winner of the WorldPuzzle Championships, an inspiring teacher who uses games to enliven his students' maths lessons, and the puzzle poet whose name has become a Sudoku-solving technique. The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles, so Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet them. Solving them is one of life's simple pleasures. They get your brain sparking and the competitive spirit flowing. These enigmatologists include the god-father of Sudoku, the winner of the WorldPuzzle Championships, an inspiring tea Puzzles are so enjoyable.
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