180 Japanese Puzzles 1: Akari - Futoshiki - Gokigen - Kendoku: Japanese Puzzle Books

I bought this book for my husband for Christmas, he can’t believe how hard they are.

good introduction to alternative puzzles.

Good fun

Enjoyable puzzlesWould prefer all easy tgrn all level 2 etc rather than rotating through difficulty levels which is an odd choiceWould also like puzzles to be larger for annotating

Fun puzzle book

This was a holiday gift which quickly occupied my days. There are four types of puzzles, and each page has one of each. The pages run in a cycles, with all four starting our on page X as easy, and then getting harder until page X+5, and then starting again. This is a great book for anyone who likes Japanese logic puzzles and is looking, perhaps, for some new ones.

I love the Futoshiki and Kendoku. The Gokigen is okay, and I may like it better as I get to know it more. I don't really get the Akari yet, but I may in the future. The book is well made and easy to write/erase in. The thing that is strange about it is that most puzzle books either have the same difficulty throughout or increase as they go. This one goes up and down. The number of rows and columns increase, and they get much harder, but then the numbers of rows and columns go back down and they get easier again. So, for example, the puzzles on pages 4 and 5 and much harder than those on pages 22 and 23. For a moment there, I thought this was book was going to be too hard, but once I figured that out, it's fine. I'm just skipping the harder ones, and I can come back to them later.

I did not like the puzzles in this book. I am donating it. Maybe someone else will enjoy them