Re: Level of calcudoku books
zefiros wrote:
(Advanced puzzles, Newdoku 1 and 2) in comparison to the puzzles on the website? So I might have an idea of which to buy. I already have the Dutch 'doeboek'.
Or perhaps Patrick himself could help me?
The puzzles in the 'Advanced' book are at or above the level of the 'Doeboek' (the 'Advanced' book puzzles
have a star rating, I'd say that the Doeboek puzzles are 3-5 stars, the 'Advanced puzzles' are between 2 and 6).
The Newdoku 1 is simple, with only the puzzles at the end around the level of the medium/harder puzzles on the site.
Newdoku 2 more or less starts of where 1 left of, with the 40 advanced puzzles at the end at or above the
harder site puzzles.
That said, I'd be interested to know what other people think, I'm always looking for
more data to calibrate the formula I use to compute the difficulty level of a puzzle..
For completeness, the 'Rekendoku' pockets that were published last year (7 of them) are 100% easy
(too easy if you ask me, but the publisher wanted that).
Patrick