Word Games
I recently rediscovered crosswords. They’re such a wonderful way to pass time, and probably more intellectually stimulating than, say, Perez Hilton. I typically do USA Today’s crosswords online, which gives me the handicap of telling me when I’m wrong. It’s sort of cheating, but I consider it more like training. A life goal of mine is to complete a Sunday NY Times Crossword by myself. Bring it on, Will Shortz.
An added bonus: studies show that crosswords help prevent mental deterioration as you grow older. That’s not something I have to worry about at this stage in my life, but it’s good to know that something that’s fun and challenging is also good for you.
Do you like to do crosswords? How about Jumbles, Word Searches, or Sudoku?
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The Rubiks cube Is my favourite puzzle, but this comes a close second.
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i just added all my crossword puzzle links to my website. just go to the bottom of the page and they are all there. the new york times is subscription only but to me it is worth every penny. i adore it. the jonesin puzzle used to be listed on my links but the papers i found it in stopped carrying it online. so now i get it from google groups. all you do is join Jonesin’ Crosswords at Google Groups. Matt sends it to you every Monday for free.
http://groups.google.com/group/jonesin-crosswords?hl=en
But the beauty of Sudoku is that it doesn’t have anything to do with math AT ALL. It is a LOGIC puzzle. The numerals are just symbols to arrange in sets of nine so that each column, each row and each smaller square of nine boxes has the numerals one to nine, in whatever order works, so that each is not repeated in that column, row or square.
Kay
The only reason I renewed my paper subscription is that I like to fill in the Jumble, Sudoku and the crossword puzzle on paper instead of doing it on-line. I really enjoy these brain teasers. It’s almost as if I haven’t started my day until I’ve completed them.
I do have Sudoku on my Iphone which I like to complete when I have the time to work on it. My computer games are FreeCell, Scrabble, Solitaire, and Bejeweled. I go back and forth with these when I have time during the day.
I am not much of a TV watcher so my entertainment is either reading, being on-line or reading the paper and doing the brain teasers.
My husband, Ross Beresford, is one of a handful of people who might have been considered “the Will Shortz” of England. (Well, he used to be back when he was an editor of the Times of London’s “Listener” crossword — generally considered the hardest crossword in the English Language.)
Anyway, when Ross married me, I was already an ardent student of the British cryptic crossword through my first marriage to Brit Hub 1.0). But instead of working on cryptic puzzles from the States, Ross decided to shift to the American style of crosswords. He started to blog about them (at http://www.crosswordmanblog.com) and is now pretty good. He can do the hardest daily puzzles — usually Fridays and Saturdays — in under 30 minutes.
And Will Shorts *says* he reads Ross’s blog!
I am math challenged to the nth degree, so no sudoku for me. I enjoy playing Text Twist and Bookworm on-line.
Ever tried Kakuro? It’s a number puzzle that solves like a crossword puzzle. The numbers must add up going up/down and across. Quite a challenge compared to Sudoku.
I will never stop my subscription to the local newspaper as long as it continues to print the daily puzzles. There are TWO crosswords, a Jumble [which my parents (in their eighties) work every day but Sunday], a Cryptoquiz, a Whatzit? and a Sudoku. The Sunday paper has both the NY Times and LA Times Crosswords, a difficult Sudoku, two word-search puzzles, a Cryptoquiz, a Scrabble puzzle, a Whatzit?, and one more whose name I don’t recall. I know that there are similar puzzles on-line, but as with holding paper & ink books, I prefer the sensation of filling in the answers with a sharp pencil on paper.
By the way, I can usually complete both of the big Sunday crosswords. At first I was happy to fill in a few words here and there. Lots of practice, tons of reading–especially romance novels–and some psyching out of the puzzle creators all have helped me along the way.
Happy solving,
Kay
I enjoy the website, bestcrosswords.com. Hundreds of puzzles – American and British – ranked by difficulty.
I also love crosswords — and I do at least one sudoku puzzle every day. Gets the brain in gear! I also like jigsaw puzzles. Each type seems to exercise a different part of the brain … :D
Love crosswords and word games, and it bums me out that all the North American magazines (where the good puzzles used to be found) have cut their puzzle page. Walrus? Time? Newsweek? Uh, hello?!