The title of this first of its kind and two in one 8x8 logic number puzze book is called HOVERDIA EIGHTEEN.
The official website is http://www.hoverdia.com/ for Puzzle tutorials.
This puzzle book is made available for worldwide ordering from www.amazon.com www.borders.com www.abebooks.com and www.alibris.com , and search under "Hoverdia Eighteen" or "9781419668159".
This characteristic of this puzzle is best represented by 8 long horizontal blocks and 8 long vertical blocks, with each long horizontal block and each long vertical block consists of 8 small boxes, which give the total of 64 boxes.
All 8 long horizontal blocks and 8 long vertical blocks, which consist 8 boxes in each block, must contain one of the numbers from 1 to 8 inclusively - Rule One.
The main puzzle with 64 boxes is alternatively represented by 4 sub-puzzles which are called Quarters and each quarter is made up of 4x4 short blocks.
For Rule Two, in each of the 4 quarters, all 4 short horizontal blocks and 4 short vertical blocks together with 2 diagonal blocks, which consist of 4 boxes in each block, must be added up to the sum of 18 (Eighteen) not only horizontally and vertically, but diagonally as well.
This is a two-in-one number puzzle because it is not merely the placement of numbers similar to Sudoku but also involving calculations Kakuro.
This puzzle book containing 200 non-identical puzzles with solved solutions.
Quotes :-
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Contact :-
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