Aimed at both working programmers who apply for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, and technicians who likes a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles feature a new series of puzzles, never published, puzzles which has the goal of elimination is called pedagogical help the reader solve an entire class Sudoku puzzle-like provide the means to solve the puzzle by hand and computer first part of each chapter presents a puzzle, the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically , the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography Coming up with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win prizes, which will be promoted on wrox.com!