Archive for February, 2014
Valentine Sudoku
Feb 14th
Valentine SudokuA quick heart-shaped sudoku for Valentine’s Day. Just place 1 to 9 once each in every row, column and bold-lined box.
Brained Up – online daily brain training
Feb 9th
I’m incredibly excited to announce Brained Up, a cutting-edge brain training site that will help you do just that – upgrade your brain! It’s based around daily online sessions that each provide a wide-ranging mental workout. The site launched just before Christmas, and already has a healthy number of daily users.
Just a few minutes a day is all it takes to upgrade your brain. Visit Brained Up and receive a personalized training plan, optimized to get the best out of your body’s most important organ. Your personal schedule will include a wide range of brain games, ensuring full coverage of key mental skills.
Studies have shown that suitable brain training activity can make you quicker and smarter. This can lead to improved creative, conversational and social skills.
Brained Up features scientifically designed exercises based on extensive research to ensure comprehensive coverage of key cognitive skills, including creativity.
Using Brained Up, just a few minutes a day is all it takes to upgrade your brain. The site constructs a personalized training plan for every user, optimized to get the best out of your body’s most important organ. Every schedule includes a wide range of brain games, ensuring full coverage of key mental skills – as well as keeping it fun throughout.
Studies have shown that suitable brain training activity can make you quicker and smarter, which can lead to improved creative, conversational and social skills. Brained Up therefore features scientifically designed exercises, based on extensive research, to help ensure comprehensive coverage of key cognitive skills, including creativity.
It’s at www.BrainedUp.com.
Sudoku Xtra 24
Feb 9th
Sudoku Xtra 24 is now finally available! It’s packed with 130 puzzles of a wide range of types, including a huge variety of sudoku variants.
This issue I’ve included a very wide range
of variants, including some new ones such as Two-grid Interconnected Sudoku, Mystery Multiple
Sudoku and Blackout Sudoku. Meanwhile I’ve made an effort to include all of the most popular
variants as requested by readers, such as Consecutive Sudoku, Inequality Sudoku, Odd/Even
Sudoku and of course many more.
If there’s anything you’d like to see in a future issue
This issue I’ve included some new sudoku types such as Two-grid Interconnected Sudoku, Mystery Multiple Sudoku and Blackout Sudoku. I’ve also made an effort to include all of the most popular variants as requested by readers, such as Consecutive Sudoku, Inequality Sudoku, Odd/Even Sudoku – and of course many more.
There’s also a range of non-sudoku puzzles, including Light-up/Akari, Hashi, Slitherlink, Battleships, Skyscrapers, Calcudoku, Futoshiki, No Four in a Row, and more!
It’s available either as a PDF to print yourself (every page is self-contained, so you can print only the pages you want), or as a professionally-printed book direct from Amazon – there are links for all of these on the Sudoku Xtra site.
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