Will Shortz Presents Wild for Sudoku: 200 Challenging Puzzles

A puzzling global phenomenon --The Economist

The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935. --The Times of London

England's most addictive newspaper puzzle. --New York magazine

The latest craze in games --BBC News

Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it! --The Times of London

Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s. --The Times of London

Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids. --Associated Press

Forget crosswords. --The Christian Science Monitor

Will Shortz has been crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.