The most advanced pencil puzzle magazine in Japan. The first issue was published in August, 1980. It is a quarterly magazine and Vol. 138 was issued in Mar, 2012. Each issue contains over 30 kinds of puzzles, including some Japanese word puzzles.

     

The first volumes in this series came out in Oct, 2011. "Fresh" is a new series independent of the "Pencil Puzzle Book" series. With the "Fresh" series, you can play (or do and enjoy) the four popular puzzles, Sudoku, Kakuro, Slitherlink, and Shikaku. The titles in this series show the kind of puzzle in the volume, and each volume has about 100 puzzles ranging from easy to hard.

   

The first volume in this series, "Kakuro 1," came out in Sep, 1986. The titles in this series show the kind of puzzle in the volume, and a volume has about 100 puzzles ranging from easy to hard.
This series continues to grow and with reprints the total number of volumes sold exceeds 2 million copies. The series is in a handy pocket sized format, 105 mm wide and 178 mm high (4 1/8 x 7 in).
>>> Alphabetical list of published books

   

The first issue of this annual magazine came out in 1992, and Vol. 25 was issued in January, 2012.
It contains over 25 kinds of puzzles, including a few word puzzles in Japanese. All the puzzles are large sized and it will easily take a year to solve them all.

 

"Penpa 20xx" series are the renewal versions of our best sellers "Penpa Mix" series. The book contains about 300 number puzzles, includes English explanation.

   

The first volume was in 2006, and Vol. 10 was issued in Aug, 2011.
It contains 50 kinds or more of puzzles, including some word puzzles in Japanese.