Absolutely Nasty® Kakuro Level Four (Absolutely Nasty® Series)

An excellent book! Having never used the 'Absolutely Nasty' kakuro before I jumped straight in for this one thinking ' yep, I can do Kakuro, I would like a challenge'. These ones are haaaard. But I loved them. It took my whole two week holiday to get the hang of how hard they are, but I would definitely buy from this range again. If you like Kakuro and want a challenge, level four is for you. If you like Kakuro and want a sense of accomplishment, go for level 3. If you've never done Kakuro, level 1 or 2 without a doubt. Excellent purchase, speedy delivery.

Nearing the end of Book 4 in which I have found about a dozen that I cannot solve. Looking for a new book, but I can't find another spiral bound of this level, so I am about to order another Book 4 and do them again. Should take a little over a year. Excellent.

As expected, these puzzles certainly are "absolutely nasty", but what a delicious nastiness indeed. Like level three in this series, the grids are very open in their layout and most challenging, partly because of this. It even seems that you'll have to resort to trial and error in a few instances. That, or I might just have been unobservant from time to time. Some of the increased difficulty is due to the fact that level four puzzles make use of sums of all nine digits, often placed quite near each other. As a whole, I don't think kakuro can get more challenging and aesthetically satisfying at the same time than this. Whole-heartedly recommended.

These books are the best Kakuro puzzles I have come across. Each puzzle takes between 40 minutes and a couple of hours to do and it's most enjoyable the way the numbers slot into place as you make progress. There are only 4 in the series and I write this review as I am nearing the end of book 2. I'm looking forward to books 3 and 4 and I don't know what I'll do when they're finished! I cannot recommend these books highly enough.

Extremely hard puzzles. The only pros that it doesn’t have dotted lines

Definitely a book for when my brain is on top form!

I am sure this is excellent but I overestimated my ability!

Super! This kakuro is really nasty, but I love it. It is meant for people, who have been solving kakuro for a long time and need a huge challegne.

Way better than Sudoku. And these are a great challenge for people who have been doing these puzzles for decades, like I have.

Fab

Im Gegensatz zu meinen Vorschreibern benötige ich deutlich mehr als 2 Stunden für die Rätsel. Sie sind deutlisch schwieriger als Level Three, aber lösbar. Manchmal lässt sich die erste Hälfte eines Rätsels geradezu runtermalen und dann geht es ne ganze Weile nicht mehr weiter. Aber es ist immer wieder ein tolles Gefühl, so ein Rätsel überlistet zu haben.

This is by far the best Kakuro Series on the market (at least that i have been able to find). I got introduced to kakuro through one of those generic easy > medium > hard books and instantly liked it. I bought the mensa kakuro book, which turned out to be a great book. Then came the black belt and 2nd degree black belts, also great kakuro books. And now the Absolutely Nasty Kakuro series. I bought level 4 first. Lots of math calculations in order to solve, but not impossible! After i completed level 4 i read someones review that level 3 is challenging as well, so bought it and they were right. It is different than level 4 but by no means easy. Because of a lack of other options on the market i just bought level 4 again. What makes the Mensa, Black Belt, and Absolutely Nasty books so great? one puzzle per page, large print, and the pages are big enough to add notes to them in order to solve the puzzles. If you love Kakuro, try out these books!

My favorite kakuro books are the Second-degree Black Belt and the Second-degree Brown Belt books which up to now were the best and the hardest Kakuro books. The present book, Absolutely Nasty Kakuro Level Four, is harder than these: I solve better than 9 out of 10 of the (2nd-degree) Brown and Black Belt books, but so far have only been able to solve 2 out of the first 6 puzzles I've tried from this new book. The quality of paper used for this new series is even better than that used for the Brown and Black belt books. Also, the puzzles are even larger (by 1 additional square across, and 2 additional squares down). The spiral binding is also nice. So, altogether, these new books set a new standard of excellence for Kakuro books!