As KenKen sweeps across the globe, the reviews come pouring in! From the most prestigious newspapers to the most adept puzzle solvers, everyone agrees that KenKen is fantastic, both for fun and learning!
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Partners with Nextoy, llc. Daily Interactive KenKen Puzzles Now Appearing on Illuminations Website
The NCTM, the world's largest organization dedicated to math education, and the popular math game and logic puzzle KenKen are partnering in the goal of making math learning fun.
Nous vous l’avions présenté en mai 2011, puis le mois dernier, ce fut un coup de coeur pour les élèves de 1èreS du LFC* qui ont signé une pétition (je vous assure !!!) pour avoir une page de KenKen tous les mois. J’ai donc contacté Tetsuya Miyamoto, l’inventeur du KenKen, pour lui demander s’il voulait être un de nos sponsors tous les mois, en nous donnant quelques KenKen. Pour notre plus grand plaisir, il a accepté de nous en donner deux par mois, un niveau medium et un plus difficile.
You don't often hear a lot of cheering at public libraries, but in the library theater at theChappaqua Public Library, in Chappaqua, New York, cheering is quite acceptable – especially during the library's annual KenKen logic puzzle tournament. Friends and family of the contestants sit in bleacher-style seats rooting the contestants on at the end of every round of puzzles. The finals of this tournament take place on the stage in the library theater, with all the suspense and fanfare of an international chess tournament.
Robert Fuhrer, 56, of Westchester County, New York is a long-time toy and game industry executive but he is probably best known as the unofficial godfather of the brain training puzzle called KenKen®.
As president and founder of thirty-year-old Nextoy, LLC, Fuhrer often traveled abroad to spot new ideas and products ripe for export. During one of his frequent trips to Japan, he was intrigued by a popular puzzle called Kashikoku Naru (translated loosely as, the puzzle that makes you smarter) that was invented by a math teacher.
Congratulations—you’re about to get superpowers! It’s true: You’re about to be given the ability to solve KenKen puzzles!
The puzzles look like sudoku, but in KenKen, math is part of the fun. Read on to build your puzzle powers. Soon you’ll be telling the world your new superhero saying: “I can KenKen!”
So, you're already a Sudoku superstar? Think you haven’t found a grid game yet that can get the best of you? Well, it’s time to try a new puzzle to bend your brain and put your logic and math skills to the test!
