Jan 13 2009
Try a Different Numbers Game: Futoshiki
If you are getting a little board with the standard Sudoku puzzles and have already tried the Kakuro puzzles might I recommend Futoshiki puzzles. The www.sudoku-puzzles.net site has a good selection on boards ranging in size from 4×4 to 9×9. The difficulty can be set from easy to very hard or you can use the random feature.
Futoshiki is another numbers game. And the goal is to place the numbers such that each row and column has a representative of each number with no repeats. However, in Futoshiki less than (<) and greater than (>) symbols are used as clues. So an example of a clue would be 2>. This would tell you that the next space had to be occupied by a 1 because it is the only number less than two. (Zeros are not used.)
It is an enjoyable little math puzzle and this site offers three hints to help you if this new puzzle takes a little time to master. Hope you enjoy.