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samurai sudoku

Saturday February 27, 2010
Our five-grid sudoku will test your powers of logic and elimination.Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual length, but the interlocking boxes give you more clues - and more complexity. Remember - don't try to solve each sudoku grid in turn; the puzzle has to be tackled as a whole. Solution next week. For more sudoku puzzles, see the Spectrum section oftoday's paper.

Fiction

Saturday December 12, 2009
Chalcot Crescent Fay Weldon Atlantic, $29.95

samurai sudoku

Saturday December 5, 2009
Our five-grid sudoku will test your powers of logic and elimination.Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual length, but the interlocking boxes give you more clues - and more complexity. Remember - don't try to solve each sudoku grid in turn; the puzzle has to be tackled as a whole. Solution next week. For more sudoku puzzles, see the Spectrum section oftoday's paper.

samurai sudoku

Saturday November 7, 2009
Our five-grid sudoku will test your powers of logic and elimination.

Catherine the great

Saturday October 31, 2009
Once told she wasn't sexy enough, Catherine Keener has played the Hollywood game €” and won €” by sticking to her own rules.

It's the write way to play

Thursday September 24, 2009
In Scribblenauts, players summon objects using the power of keywords, writes Mike Wilcox.

The semi-secret life of us

Saturday August 29, 2009
HE SEEMED harmless. A bloke in his 50s standing at the bar, solving a crossword. A cryptic, I noticed, as I waited for my Guinness to settle. Being Thursday, the setter du jour was NS, alias Nancy Sibtain.

Blockbuster

Monday January 12, 2009
Lovatts Crosswords & Puzzles www.lovatts.com.au

Exercise The Brain And Forget Dementia

Wednesday August 23, 2006
IT IS never too late to start exercising the brain. Tackle the crossword puzzles, learn a new language or take up dancing. Still better, do all three. That's the message of Michael Valenzuela, who was yesterday named a 2006 Eureka Prize winner for his research into how maintaining an active mind can ward off the onset of dementia.

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