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Nearly a year after it had been made available at LuLu, volume 2 of my book “The Way of Samurai” is now also available on Amazon! This is thanks to CreateSpace, an Amazon company, who also publish print-on-demand books, but offer better conditions both for authors and for readers. Believe it or not, the book is actually cheaper on Amazon than it is on LuLu!

Unfortunately (there always is a “but”, isn’t it?) the book will only be available on the main Amazon International site and will not appear on individual country sites such as Amazon UK.

(for some reason the front cover image is still not showing on Amazon, but the book is there)

I will be publishing more books now using CreateSpace so you can expect to find them on Amazon, too.

Well, I bet most of you are using Facebook, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a group there for fans of Killer Sudoku and related puzzles. I’m not sure yet what it will be used for (perhaps a facebook game some day?), but feel free to join and suggest things there: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21759594639

It’s been nearly a year since I stopped updating the Flower and Samurai Sudoku sites. It wasn’t worthwhile running 3 different websites on the same subject, so I decided to move everything back to this, the main site.

Many of you were disappointed with that and I’ve decided to try to make you happy again.

I’ve prepared 105 Flower Sudoku puzzles in 7 different varieties and put them in a book called “Flower Sudoku: 5 in 1 Sudoku puzzles in different flavors“.

The book is available as an e-book (PDF) or a paperback and can already be purchased on lulu.com!.

(click on the cover page to go to lulu and buy!)

US $5.95 or £3.28 or €4.79 (PDF e-book)

(payable by PayPal or credit card)

In this book you will find 15 of each of the following:
- Classic Flower Sudoku
- Diagonal Flower Sudoku
- Odd/Even Flower Sudoku
- Greater/Less Than Flower Sudoku
- Non-consecutive Flower Sudoku
- Consecutive Flower Sudoku
- Killer Flower Sudoku

Each variety is evenly split into standard EASY - COOL - THINKER - BRAIN - IQ difficulty levels .

There will be more and more e-books coming until the end of this year, but I don’t have the schedule yet.

(originally posted on July 24, 2008)

To the best of my knowledge, no book exists with non-consecutive sudoku puzzles. Well, that’s about to change NOW!

I’ve prepared 150 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles and put them in a book called “Non-Consecutive Sudoku Compendium”.
The book is available as an e-book (PDF) or a paperback and can already be purchased on lulu.com!.

(click on the cover page to go to lulu and buy!)

US $5.95 or £3.28 or €4.79 (PDF e-book)

(payable by PayPal or credit card)

In this book you will find:
- 20 8×8 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 classic 9×9 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 diagonal 9×9 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 5 classic and 5 diagonal Double Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 classic and 10 diagonal TwoDoku Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Butterfly Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Flower Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Mini-Samurai Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles (each sub-puzzle is 6×6 in size!)
- 5 Ring Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles (4 in 1)
- 5 Samurai Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 Killer Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles

Each variety is split into standard EASY - COOL - THINKER - BRAIN - IQ difficulty levels and there’s even one INSANE.

Hope you will like this!

I’m pleased to announce something new on this site - user contributed posts and puzzles here, on the main site (instead of in the forum).

mikejapan will be the first contributor, since he’s been most creative in the forum (although he’s made a break, but now he’s back).
Mike will start with his latest post from the forum, so we’re moving that discussion here.

I’ll be glad to add more users as we go on. Hope you’ll enjoy this!

Sorry folks for being late with today’s Daily Sudoku puzzle. I have just uploaded a new non-consecutive puzzle for today.

Enjoy!

Unfortunately, for the first time, I must announce that there was a problem with the Killer Samurai Sudoku volume 2 book.

While all puzzles in this book were Ok, there was a problem with the solutions. Solutions were not placed the way they should’ve been. 3 solutions were missing and all solutions have wrong puzzle numbers printed next to them. In fact, the solution to each puzzle were printed right underneath the puzzle itself (with the wrong puzzle number attached).

This is clearly an error in editing and I’m surprised that it hasn’t been spotted before. This problem has been fixed and the book that is now available on Lulu.com is correct!

IMPORTANT: I would like to kindly ask all those who purchased the book to send me an e-mail to sudoku@djape.net with the original PDF file attached and I will send them a new, corrected, PDF file.

My sincere apologies to all who purchased the book with incorrect solutions. Hopefully things like this will not happen again.

So sorry about the problem with the Daily sudoku puzzles which were pointing to Daily Killer puzzles. I have fixed the problem and you can get a Hyper or Jigsaw or Consecutive or Non-consecutive sudoku puzzle every day on the Daily Sudoku page.