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FREE Presentational booklet of puzzles by DJAPE

A promotional PDF by Djape. Please forward this to your local newspaper and ask them to change from classic Sudoku to something new.
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A new Hidoku puzzle

Since I stopped with the Daily Hidoku puzzles, I never really posted one puzzle of this species for you. Sorry about that, here it is now! By the way, the two Hidoku books I published should be solved in reverse order. 🙂 Why? Because the puzzles in Volume 1 are slightly more difficult than the […]
Hidoku book, large print

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Daily Hidoku

As you all may have noticed, I’ve finally started posting Hidoku puzzles on a daily basis! They can be found every day, Monday to Friday, on the Hidoku page!
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Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a nice Christmas and that you are enduring the cold weather well. Well, those in the Northern hemisphere anyway. 🙂 Let me tell you about the changes that I plan for 2009: There will be more Jigsaw Sudoku puzzles on the Daily Sudoku variants page. They will be accompanied by […]
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How to solve Hidoku: “cornering” (or “dead-end”)

Here is an explanation of a Hidato solving technique that some people might find obvious and they use it without even thinking of it as a special technique. But, for those who still struggle with the more difficult puzzles, here is a quick guide of the technique that I call “cornering“. It can be used […]
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A small Hidoku puzzle – but not too easy!

I believe that after all the puzzles that I’ve created and posted for you, you know that I prefer them difficult. It seems that there is a belief that the difficulty of Hidoku can only be increased by increasing it’s size. I know for a fact that it’s not true, because some of the Hidoku […]
Hidoku book, large print

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A new Hidoku puzzle – a difficult one this time!

Today I show you a bigger and more difficult Hidoku puzzle. To make sure you know what you’re solving, here are the (very simple) rules of Hidoku again: 1. It can be played on a square or rectangle of any size 2. Numbers from 1 to the size of the puzzle are used. For example, […]
Hidoku book, large print

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Hidoku

I told you there is something special coming today and here it is: my first Hidoku puzzle! These puzzles have been introduced earlier this year and it seems they’re catching on. They are being published under the name “Hidato” but I will have to use Hidoku. The rules of Hidoku (Hidatoâ„¢): 1. It can be […]
Hidoku book, large print

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