Download or read book Hitori and Sudoku written by Nikoli and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzle fans will love hitori. Instead of filling in numbers on a grid, they have to black them outlike playing sudoku backwards! Hitori is a new brainchild of Nikoli, publisher of Japan s very first puzzle magazine and a superpower in the puzzle world. The rules are simple: 1) No number may appear more than once in any row or column. 2) Starting with a fully filled grid, the solver has to decide which duplicate numbers to knock out. And 3) all numbers remaining at the end have to be connected together. It s a whole new kind of mind-bending fun."""

Download or read book Mammoth Book of Codeword Puzzles written by and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mammoth Book of Codeword Puzzles is a truly bumper collection of these hugely popular puzzles - also known as codewords, cipher crosswords and cipher word puzzles. There are also some fun variations in the form of dropouts, keywords, coded quotes and long diversions. In a codeword puzzle, each grid is made up of numbered squares, with each number corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. A few letters are given, but the rest must be discovered by using logic and word power to crack the code. HOURS OF STIMULATING PUZZLE FUN!

Download or read book Hashi written by Alastair Chisholm and published by Crombie Jardine. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hashi (short for Hashiwokakero, meaning "build bridges") is a new logic puzzle from Japan. In Hashi, the goal is to join islands together with up to two vertical or horizontal bridges, so that every island is connected. The larger in number value the island, the more bridges connect to it (an island of size 6 must be connected to 6 bridges), and no bridge can cross another. Successful logic puzzles have certain things in common: a unique game with one solution, easy to pick up, fun and challenging, able to be put down and picked back up again. Hashi has all these qualities, and puzzle master Alastair Chisholm has created 201 puzzles in three levels of difficulty--Easy, Medium, and Hard; you'll be thinking about them even when you're not working on them.

Download or read book Killer Kakuro written by Mark Huckvale and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2005-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hooked on su doku? Then move on up to kakuro! Kakuro is the latest Japanese puzzle craze for all those who thought they had reached the limit in logic puzzles. Kakuro is all about numbers, and like su doku it is solved by using logic, with absolutely no guesswork. However, Kakuro takes puzzling a step further: it requires simple arithmetic skills as well as reasoning. But don't worry if maths isn't your strong point. While some of the logic relies on you being able to add up, the sums only ever involve a few single digits, and the totals in this book are never more than 45. You don't need to be a maths whiz, nor do you need to have a calculator handy. You will have no difficulty in doing the sums in your head. As with the incredibly addictive su doku, the fun in doing kakuro is working out the logic that gets you from the starting position to the single solved grid of digits. So if you're bored with su doku - kakuro is the next logical step . . .

Download or read book Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat written by Neng-Fa Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

Download or read book The Magic of Math written by Arthur Benjamin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's greatest mental mathematical magician takes us on a spellbinding journey through the wonders of numbers (and more) "Arthur Benjamin . . . joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance." -- Bill Nye (the science guy) The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples-from ice-cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares-this book revels in key mathematical fields including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and calculus, plus Fibonacci numbers, infinity, and, of course, mathematical magic tricks. Known throughout the world as the "mathemagician," Arthur Benjamin mixes mathematics and magic to make the subject fun, attractive, and easy to understand for math fan and math-phobic alike. "A positively joyful exploration of mathematics." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Each [trick] is more dazzling than the last." -- Physics World

Download or read book Mensa Kakuro written by Conceptis Puzzles and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more appealing to Mensa members--or anyone who enjoys a good challenge--than a cunning test of intelligence and logic? That's exactly what these 250 puzzles provide. The trick to kakuro is in making it all add up: the game begins with a grid that looks like a crossword, except that some squares contain small numbers in the corner. Fill in all the empty boxes using the numbers 1 to 9 without repeats so that the sum of each horizontal set of digits equals the number in the black triangle to its left, and the sum of each vertical set of digits equals the number in the triangle above it. The kakuro puzzles start out simple...and get more difficult as the book progresses.

Download or read book Alex s Adventures in Numberland written by Alex Bellos and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of maths Sunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist 'Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily Telegraph In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined. This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.

Download or read book Video Game Level Design written by Michael Salmond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Level design connects the player to the game through challenges, experiences, and emotions. This book is an invaluable introduction to the evolving practices of Level Designers across the games industry. The increasingly complex role of the Level Designer requires technical and creative skill as it brings together architecture, art, player psychology, interaction design, usability, and experience design. This book explores in detail the principles designers employ when planning levels and building engaging spaces for the player. As well as practical approaches to level design, the book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of the processes and charts a path towards thinking like a Level Designer. Throughout the book you will be guided through the fundamentals of level design: each chapter builds on the types of research, ideation, best practices, and methodologies Level Designers employ when creating prototypes and shipped games. A series of interviews with designers and case studies from game studios examine the application of industry-wide expertise used to create triple-A and indie game titles. By the end of this book you will have gained valuable insight into the role of a Level Designer and be able to devise, plan, and build your own engaging and entertaining game levels.

Download or read book Proof and the Art of Mathematics written by Joel David Hamkins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to write mathematical proofs, shown in fully-worked out examples. This is a companion volume Joel Hamkins's Proof and the Art of Mathematics, providing fully worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises as well as a few of the even-numbered exercises. In many cases, the solutions go beyond the exercise question itself to the natural extensions of the ideas, helping readers learn how to approach a mathematical investigation. As Hamkins asks, "Once you have solved a problem, why not push the ideas harder to see what further you can prove with them?" These solutions offer readers examples of how to write a mathematical proofs. The mathematical development of this text follows the main book, with the same chapter topics in the same order, and all theorem and exercise numbers in this text refer to the corresponding statements of the main text.

Download or read book 200 Crazy Clever Kakuro Puzzles written by Dave LeCompte and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 all-new Kakuro (or Cross Sums) puzzles, ranging in size and difficulty from easy 3x3 puzzles to monster 26x34 puzzles. Comes with answers and solving tips.

Download or read book Conceptual Mathematics written by F. William Lawvere and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists.

Download or read book Combinatorics Geometry and Probability written by Béla Bollobás and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panorama of combinatorics by the world's experts.

Download or read book Circle Games Level 2 Elementary Lower Intermediate Book with Audio CDs 2 Pack written by Frank Brennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five stories to make you smile - and think: a Chinese lion dancer turns round and round; an old wooden wheel sits on an English pub wall; an American teenager makes a new wheel for a car; a bicycle taxi driver in Singapore helps a sick girl; and an English student finds a strange, and very old, disc." - back cover.

Download or read book King Sized Kakuro 21x21 Volume 9 153 Logic Puzzles written by Nick Snels and published by PuzzleBooks.net. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Kakuro is a fun way for kids and adults to practice addition facts. This book is ideal for beginners to learn Kakuro. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! King-Sized Kakuro 21x21 is a collection of 153 puzzles: 120 Kakuro 21x21 puzzles 33 extra logic puzzles The goal of Kakuro is to insert numbers into the white cells. Possible numbers are always 1 to 9. The sum of each horizontal block must equal the clue on its left. The sum of each vertical block must equal the clue above it. You can only use a number once in each horizontal or vertical block. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Kakuro puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books. Kakuro is also known as Cross Sums, Kakro, Kakkuro, Cross Addition. Quite often Kakuro is misspelled as Kakura.

Download or read book The Book of Kakuro written by Michael Mepham and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by the creator of the bestselling Book of Sudoku, Kakuro is the hot new puzzle craze sweeping the UK and now the US. The First Book of Kakuro includes 200 puzzles ranging in difficulty from the gentle through the tough to the diabolical. Fans of Sudoku are nuts about the challenge of Kakuro because it presents new challenges. If completing a 10 x 12 cell grid becomes a breeze, simply move on to bigger puzzles.

Download or read book The OPL Optimization Programming Language written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OPL (Optimization Programming Language) is a new modeling language for combinatorial optimization that simplifies the formulation and solution of optimization problems. Perhaps the most significant dimension of OPL is the support for constraint programming, including sophisticated search specifications, logical and higher order constraints, and support for scheduling and resource allocation applications. This book, written by the developer of OPL, is a comprehensive introduction to the OPL programming language and its application to problems in linear and integer programming, constraint programming, and scheduling. Readers should be familiar with combinatorial optimization, at least from an application standpoint.