by Michael Jensen Download Wordoki Book #1 in PDF 50 puzzles! 104 pages! Or try a different puzzle: Download Wordi Sample #1 in PDF 21 puzzles! 14 pages! For email updates on Wordoki and Wordi doings, sign in below:	Wordoki puzzles and Wordi puzzles were invented by Michael after watching his daughter working on Sudoku puzzles. He appreciated the numeric grace, but he wanted a more verbally-oriented puzzle. Later, he realized he could produce something fun, and quite unusual.     The Wordi puzzles are self-explanatory: vertical and horizontal word intersections, with the words specified. These are a two- to three-minute puzzle, a handful of nuts -- fairly quick satisfaction, with a complicated but rapidly-resolved challenge and diversity.     The Wordoki puzzles are more complicated. They come in two forms -- a "Challenge," which is the hardest version, and the "Assistance" version, which has one word filled in.     The "Solution" to the puzzle is on the page following the two Wordoki versions of the same puzzle. If you've gotten to be an expert at these, we suggest you just block the bottom "Assistance" version out with a piece of paper, as you're working on them.     The goal of the Wordoki is to fill in the white, empty squares in the 5x5 grid. That grid's vertical columns are complete words used in English; the horizontal rows may include (and display) additional letters in the grey boxes, but also form complete words. To solve a Wordoki puzzle, you have several methods and strategies.     Clues are liberally tossed in -- the puzzle title always has something to do with one or more of the words comprising the Wordoki, just as the rhyming quip may suggest word possibilities (though may not make all that much sense).     You can use the letter count to determine what letters are available to you at all. If "Q" isn't listed, there's no point in considering Q as a possible letter in the puzzle.     Finally, you can use the letter values along with their totals as a tool for solving the Wordoki. Letters have a standard value (a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.) across all puzzles. You can use the value totals for the column or row as a clue to what letters might be options. For example, if the row total is 56, and the letters you have now add up to 46, low-value letters like A through G are most likely.     Usually, if something is odd or the word is unusual, we try to be sure to include a clue of some kind, but we can't promise that.      Have fun! If you have feedback, please send it to michaeljonjensen@gmail.com -- he'd love to hear it.      Currently there is only one book of Wordoki puzzles, in PDF form. Michael will soon be approaching publishers. But for now, it's free to those who've been told this is here. Note: I'm in the process of changing the name from "wordoko" to "wordoki" because it's more appropriate, and less confusingly close to "Sudoku." However, some images, and Web pages, still use the term "wordoko." I'll be setting up "www.wordoki.com" soon.