Uber- Ultra- Hyper-Gogen and Hyper-Gogen+ Puzzle Books
These books contain puzzles that have never been published before. They come in various sizes and difficulty levels from:
- The 300-puzzle-sized books with the papyrus with the hieroglyphs or hieratic scipt on the front containing many HyperGogen puzzles with 25 each of Uber- and Ultra-Gogen to get you warmed up (or if you have given it as a present to somebody that has never seen one before, this gives them a chance); through,
- the 250-puzzle Uber- and Ultra-Gogen books with the Netherlandish paintings of cats on the front; to,
- the smaller, 100-puzzle, pocket-money-sized (present for mum or dad) books with half-uncial, carolingian, old Persian cuneiform and Kharoshthi script on the front cover each book containing 25 puzzles each type running from UberGogens to the fiendish HyperGogen+ puzzles.
Something for everybody.
The puzzles are printed one per page so that you have enough room on there to do all of your working out and some puzzles need a lot of working out. These are not printed two on a page like Crosswords, Sudoku, Kakuro or wordsearch puzzles - people don't get enjoyment from puzzles that are cramped into such an unnecessarily small space that you cannot make out your working out so here, you have one per page which, with many of them, you will probably need.
| Book | Uber | Ultra | Hyper | Hyper+ | Total Puzzles | Price (GBP) | Pages |
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| X-Gogen 1 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 100 | £4.99 | 122 |
| X-Gogen 2 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 100 | £4.99 | 124 |
| X-Gogen 3 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 100 | £4.99 | 124 |
| X-Gogen 4 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 100 | £4.99 | 124 |
| Gogen 1 | 125 | 125 | - | - | 250 | £7.79 | 296 |
| Gogen 2 | 125 | 125 | - | - | 250 | £7.79 | 296 |
| Gogen 3 | 125 | 125 | - | - | 250 | £7.79 | 296 |
| Gogen 4 | 125 | 125 | - | - | 250 | £7.79 | 296 |
| Hyper 1 | 25 | 25 | 250 | - | 300 | £8.80 | 356 |
| Hyper 2 | 25 | 25 | 250 | - | 300 | £8.80 | 356 |
100 graded puzzles with 25 each of: UberGogen; UltraGogen; HyperGogen; and HyperGogen+ puzzles in each book.
Note that these are the only books with HyperGogen+ puzzles in them.
100 Puzzles £4.99
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Book 1. 122 pages 14 x 21.6 x 0.8cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3") 100 Puzzles £4.99 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 2. 124 pages 14 x 21.6 x 0.8cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3") 100 Puzzles £4.99 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 3. 124 pages 14 x 21.6 x 0.8cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3") 100 Puzzles £4.99 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 4. 124 pages 14 x 21.6 x 0.8cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3") 100 Puzzles £4.99 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
250 graded UberGogen and UltraGogen puzzles in each book.
250 Puzzles £7.79
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Book 1. 296 pages 14 x 21.6 x 1.9cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.7") 250 Puzzles £7.79 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 2. 296 pages 14 x 21.6 x 1.9cm ;(5.5 x 8.5 x 0.7") 250 Puzzles £7.79 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 3. 296 pages 14 x 21.6 x 1.9cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.7") 250 Puzzles £7.79 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 4. 296 pages 14 x 21.6 x 1.9cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.7") 250 Puzzles £7.79 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
250 graded HyperGogen puzzles with 25 each of UberGogen and UltraGogen bonus puzzles in each book.
Also, work out what it says on the front cover, if you can.
300 Puzzles £8.80
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Book 1. 356 pages 14 x 21.6 x 2.1cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.8") 300 Puzzles £8.80 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Book 2. 356 pages 14 x 21.6 x 2.1cm (5.5 x 8.5 x 0.8") 300 Puzzles £8.80 Buy from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
The UberGogen, UltraGogen HyperGogen and HyperGogen+ puzzles in these books go from: the easiest you can find on this site on a Monday that will take you ten minutes to do (a bit longer for the HyperGogen); to the hardest ones that you get on a Sunday - to give you an idea, the one below-left isn't the hardest I have done and it took me about an hour. Try today's Uber- and UltraGogen puzzles by clicking Here or the HyperGogen puzzle by clicking Here.
For the uninitiated, a Gogen puzzle has a 5x5 array of cells within which the letters A-Y are placed. Some of those letter positions are given to you as cells that are filled in for you. To find the rest of them, you are given word clues that show you where the missing letters go. Usually, there are nine cells given away and the word clues provide all of the letters in the words. With an UberGogen, not all of the letters are given in the clues. With the UltraGogen, fewer clue cells are filled in for you but all of the letters are in the word clues. There is a tutorial here for you, explaining the subject in more detail.
The HyperGogen doesn't allow you the comfort of using real words, except by conincidence so being fairly confident about the 'q being next to the 'u' or that a word is going to have a vowel or a semi-vowel in it, for example. is gone. Also, letters can be repeated within clues, clues are allowed to be only two letters long and so on: all you have left is logic itself. The Hypergogen+ is the same except that you also have a word that is ten or more letters long to find. One might argue that by adding a long real word, it makes locating the letters easier but only if you happen to guess the word first - and correctly. I will let you be the judge of that.
Each Grosse Book of Gogen Puzzles book consists of 250 puzzles that are all new, never been published - 125 Uber-Gogen puzzles and 125 Ultra-Gogen puzzles - along with the answers at the back and, as you would expect, they increase in difficulty as you work your way through them. You can see on the 'Look inside' feature on Amazon's website, what the puzzles look like - they are printed in a 5½"x8½" which is a bit narrower than DIN A5 paperback format on off-white paper so they are easy on the eye, a good, practical size and will still fit in your pocket - take it with you anywhere and get stuck into it whenever you want. There is literally hundreds of hours' worth of entertainment in each book.
The Grosse book of HyperGogen Puzzles has 25 each of UberGogen and UltraGogen to get you started or, if you are buying one for somebody that has never done these puzzles before, they will introduce to them the way that the puzzle works so that they can get stuck into the 250 HyperGogen puzzles that follow.
The X-Gogen books have one hundred puzzles - 25 each of UberGogen, UltraGogen, HyperGogen and HyperGogen+. The latter of these is the same as a normal HyperGogen but within the puzzle is hidden a 10+ letter word that you have to find. The X-Gogen book is small at just over 120 pages with 100 puzzles plus answers but it is aimed at pocket money sized presents for children to get their puzzle addict parents for birthdays, Christmas or other special days - or even for going on holiday.
So, whether you are yourself, a hardened puzzle junkie, someone who wants to become one or you need to find a gift for somebody that is one, this is the only place you will find them.
There are ten books (a total of 2,000 puzzles) and you can go to each book's Amazon page by clicking on the links above. Amazon deals with payment and will send the books you order to any address you specify and wrap them as gifts if you want them to.
Have Fun.
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