This book has a number of interesting puzzles that I hadn't seen before: Masyu & Nurikabe are pretty interesting; Hitori is just silly and barely requires logic at all. Any of the Hitori puzzles can be solved in about 2 minutes... but the book is good for its variety. The biggest complaint I have is with the difficulty - there are very few puzzles that take longer than about 10 minutes. Most are a lot shorter. I prefer puzzles that are a little bit more challenging, but overall it's a good sampler.

I enjoy Soduko, fell in love with Kakuro, and when I found this book it just jumped in my hand. I have thoroughly enjoyed the different types of puzzles this book has to offer. It has three different levels for each of the six puzzle types it contains. I found the difficulty a little lite for Kakuro, but appropriate for a compendium book of puzzle types. The book is thick and if they added more puzzle types, they'd have to shrink the print or reduce the number of puzzles. Overall I think they made a great selection of puzzle types, difficulty, and number of puzzles per type. Very fun. Now if I can just keep my daughter away from my copy, my life will be complete.

I bought a similar collection, that was plagued by errors in the solutions (how frustrating!). This is not a reprint of that collection. You will be introduced to five different types of puzzles (plus a sixth, which is a variation on Sudoku), with good tutorials, and the puzzles are presented in order of level of difficulty. The puzzles are great. The print is large and crisp (easy on the eyes). The paper is newsprint style. I love having a wide variety of puzzles in one book, so I can jump around to different types as my mood/concentration change.