Don’t let the title of our latest logic puzzle book fool you. O’Ekaki Heaven, our newest collection from the God of Puzzles, will not be very forgiving. Based on a series of religious motifs, these handcrafted puzzles could turn the toughest of puzzlers to prayer. Buddha, Christ, Ganesha, Orion, and even the God of Puzzles himself, Tetsuya Nishio, make cameos to guide fans towards gaming Nirvana. Even with more than a hundred puzzles to solve Vertical does not guarantee enlightenment, but we do believe at least a few of them will leave you talking in tongues. Via con dios!
Taking Puzzles to a Higher Level
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009The Devil Strolls Into Town!
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Sudoku Hell, the latest and greatest in logic-based torture, is here! Infernal taskmaster Tetsuya Nishio is delivering us into evil with these new puzzles; hours of sinful play to keep us warm from the seemingly never-ending chill this season. His latest installment features all the notorious fun of his other puzzles with some added tricks and twists to keep you pulling your hair out. After you’ve finished torturing yourself with Nishio’s addendum of purgatorial pleasure, be on the lookout for his next surprise, O’Ekaki Heaven, out on the stands April 28th.
Put on your Thinking Caps
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The latest in Vertical’s devilishly devious, yet delightful, puzzle books—Extreme Sudoku: New Challenges from the Master and Original O’Ekaki: Intelligent Designs from Its Creator—are on sale now. Oh, sure, you’re thinking, I know Sudoku, and you very well may be familiar with the ubiquitous computer-generated examples plastered throughout the daily newspapers. If you’re lucky, you’ll even work up a yawn when you play them. But Vertical puzzles will have you working up a satisfying sweat, because Vertical puzzles are conceived and designed by the nefarious mind of Japanese puzzle genius Tetsuya Nishio. They are not for the faint of heart. Rather they are for those puzzlers who appreciate a brain-busting challenge. And not only did Nishio create Vertical’s O’Ekaki puzzles, but also he invented the game! O’Ekaki is the entertaining creative logic puzzle that utilizes both the right and left sides of your brain. It’s like Sudoku, but with a pay-off as the answer comes in the form of a cool picture that you’ve uncovered with your pencil… if you completed the puzzle correctly. So escape the brain-numbing ennui of the work day, by exercising your brain with the most challenging and entertaining puzzles available. Only from Vertical, of course!
O’Ekaki and Higher Sudoku Samples Now Available!
Monday, June 18th, 2007
Bored with predictable, computer-generated Sudoku puzzles? Vertical now offers downloadable samples of its Higher Sudoku and O’Ekaki: Paint by Sudoku puzzles, along with easy-to-understand instructions and tips for you to take your Sudoku puzzle skills to the next level. Vertical’s Sudoku puzzles are cleverly conceived by the Japanese puzzlemaster and O’Ekaki inventor, Tetsuya Nishio, “the Japanese Will Shortz,” and are designed to bedevil and delight even the veteran Sudoku enthusiast. O’Ekaki puzzles result in surprising pictures, but don’t be fooled; they are just as challenging and fun. The first five people to send us a correctly-solved example of our O’Ekaki puzzle will receive a free copy of O’Ekaki: Paint by Sudoku and an exclusive, Vertical mechanical pencil. Send your completed O’Ekaki puzzle (from our puzzle page) to: Vertical’s O’Ekaki Puzzle Challenge, 1185 Avenue of the Americas 32FL, New York, NY 10036. After you’ve tried our puzzles, send us your comments; you may see them posted on our Vertical puzzles page!
Just look for the “Samples, tips, and instructions” button on our Sudoku webpage to download your own pdfs: www.vertical-inc.com/books/puzzle
Vertical at BEA and more!
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
After a year of being absent, Vertical was happy to come back with a bang to the publishing event of the year – Book Expo America. We came to Washington, D.C. with Koji Suzuki and Team Sudoku (Mr. Tetsuya Nishio, Mr. Kenji Onishi and Ms. Meishuku Ishimura), along with our two new Vertical-Tokyo officers, Mr. Satoshi Suzuki and Mr. Shuji Iwamoto. We left with high hopes, a million new friends, and tons of photos.
After BEA, Vertical Inc. came back to New York City a little tired but very excited, and Team Sudoku gave a standing-room only presentation at Borders in the Time-Warner Center. The whole weekend was capped off with a killer party at Vertical Art Director Chip Kidd’s notoriously perfect apartment. Those pictures are here.