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Summary: great puzzle book! pixel puzzles are for logical minds!fun!
Review: great puzzle book for someone with a logical mind. Completely different from those boring word puzzles!! This is a book for a math mind....although it's strictly logic here! It's perfect for a computer programmer..or someone who thinks like one! Great introduction in the book explaining what a pixel puzzle is and how to solve it. Basically, a pixel puzzle is a grid that has numbers along the top and left side. You have to figure out which squares should be colored in and which should be left blank. By filling in the squares you create a picture. The book has over 100 puzzles. There are about 10 easy ones that take 10 minutes - 1 hour. The rest take several hours or several days (depending on your aptitude!). It's fun and challenging. Not boring at all! I'm so happy to find something fun that actually exersices my BRAIN! It's fun..give it a shot!
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Summary: Great puzzles
Review: I love these puzzles! I just wish they would get around to producing another book of them, as I've finished all of these... some of them more than once!. The book is well put together (the spiral binding is a good idea, as it makes each page lie flat). The paper is of good enough quality to withstand erasing (and you WILL need to erase now and then). But now that I've worked my way through the book, I have to wait for new ones to come out in Games Magazine...
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Summary: Great puzzles
Review: I love these puzzles! I just wish they would get around to producing another book of them, as I've finished all of these... some of them more than once!. The book is well put together (the spiral binding is a good idea, as it makes each page lie flat). The paper is of good enough quality to withstand erasing (and you WILL need to erase now and then). But now that I've worked my way through the book, I have to wait for new ones to come out in Games Magazine...
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Summary: The best of the bunch
Review: Pixel puzzles are fun, addictive and very challenging. They are are considered math puzzles, but as long as you can count, you'll be fine. They don't require any reading, so they're great to do while you're listening to TV or a book on tape. Nonetheless, they really work your brain. They require a logical, step-by-step approach, and are very satisfying. If you like logic problems of any type, you should definitely give these a try! I am a true addict. I have tried every book I could find with this type of puzzle. Mind sharpening Pixel Puzzles, and Perplexing Pixel Puzzles are clearly the best. They are much more challenging than any of the other puzzle books of this type, and the pictures are more interesting. I bought them two years ago, and I was hooked. After I finished them, I tried others, but nothing else can really compare. I just ordered my second copy of each of them! If you're generally good with challenging logic puzzles, you will love this book, and it will keep you busy for months. Most of the puzzles took a long time to complete. Some were very frustrating because they required using trial and error (in addition to logic) and a lot of erasing. They were all fun though, and it was satisfying to complete each one. If you prefer shorter, quicker puzzles, then I would recommend Art Puzzles by Number by Kathy Weaver. The Games Magazine Paint by Numbers book is good for beginners. The puzzles in the Nonograms book by Non Ishida are good, but the book is very small and the paper quality is very poor. I kept poking my pencil through the paper, and it was hard to keep the book open to the right page. Mind sharpening Pixel Puzzles, and Perplexing Pixel Puzzles are the only ones I've seen that are spiral bound (which really helps). The pages are larger, the paper quality is excellent, and the resulting pictures are attractive. They cost less than many of the other books too! How can you beat that?
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Summary: The best of the bunch
Review: Pixel puzzles are fun, addictive and very challenging. They are are considered math puzzles, but as long as you can count, you'll be fine. They don't require any reading, so they're great to do while you're listening to TV or a book on tape. Nonetheless, they really work your brain. They require a logical, step-by-step approach, and are very satisfying. If you like logic problems of any type, you should definitely give these a try! I am a true addict. I have tried every book I could find with this type of puzzle. Mind sharpening Pixel Puzzles, and Perplexing Pixel Puzzles are clearly the best. They are much more challenging than any of the other puzzle books of this type, and the pictures are more interesting. I bought them two years ago, and I was hooked. After I finished them, I tried others, but nothing else can really compare. I just ordered my second copy of each of them! If you're generally good with challenging logic puzzles, you will love this book, and it will keep you busy for months. Most of the puzzles took a long time to complete. Some were very frustrating because they required using trial and error (in addition to logic) and a lot of erasing. They were all fun though, and it was satisfying to complete each one. If you prefer shorter, quicker puzzles, then I would recommend Art Puzzles by Number by Kathy Weaver. The Games Magazine Paint by Numbers book is good for beginners. The puzzles in the Nonograms book by Non Ishida are good, but the book is very small and the paper quality is very poor. I kept poking my pencil through the paper, and it was hard to keep the book open to the right page. Mind sharpening Pixel Puzzles, and Perplexing Pixel Puzzles are the only ones I've seen that are spiral bound (which really helps). The pages are larger, the paper quality is excellent, and the resulting pictures are attractive. They cost less than many of the other books too! How can you beat that?
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Summary: excellent time killer
Review: This book is my first experience with pixel puzzles and I have to say that they've been challenging, interesting and totally addictive. The book gives a good foreword for beginners, giving some tips to start you on the way to solving the puzzles correctly and then throws you around a hundred puzzles with varying levels of difficulty for you to work through. Some are pretty difficult but all are manageable and satisfying at the end. This is definitely a good way to spend a few hours on a rainy (or snowy as it might be here in Canada) day or in spare moments of boredom. Definitely a good way to keep the mind sharp and keen. Anyone itching to exercise their problem-solving arm will appreciate this book.
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