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Title: This book is not for the novice.
Review: The book is way to hard for a "dummy" series. The complexity of the easy puzzles are way over the top. Not good for beginners because they will only get frustrated and abandon kakuro thinking they can't do it. The instructional section includes a table of "known combinations" for reference which is incomplete and lacking for puzzles this hard.I brought the book because I have just started doing the daily sudoku and kakuro puzzles in my local paper a few months ago and was struggling with the kakuro. I figured a " dummy" book would bring me up to speed, but was shocked to find out the "easy" puzzles were harder than the ones in my local paper. The tutorial did an abysmal job of preparation for the challenges presented in this collection of puzzles. Overall the book fails miserably in the goal of helping a novice improve his skill set. I'll throw this book in the drawer and return to it after I have had a couple more years of experence with kakuro.
