No comments about Random House Springtime Crosswords (RH Crosswords).

No comments about Little Book of Crossword Puzzles (Dover Little Activity Books).

No comments about The New York Times Easy as Pie Crossword Puzzles: 75 Simple, Solvable Crosswords (New York Times Crossword Puzzles).

No comments about Just Right Crosswords Volume 3: Coffee & Croissants Collection (NEA Crosswords).

1 comments about 101 BIBLE CROSSWORDS VOL 1 (Bible Crosswords).

1. I love crosswords and thought this would sharpen up those forgotten stories and bring them to the forefront of my consciousness. This book struggles for words to fit...Not fun to do the puzzles for me, anyhow.

4 comments about Clever Cryptograms.

1. In this book, Louise Moll has collected 10 quotes each from some of the best minds ever and encrypted them. Accompanied by Jim Sharpe's excellent illustrations of each person before their quotes. People included are: St. Thomas Aquinas, Einstein, Epicurus, Gandhi & Oscar Wilde to name a few. There are 30 in all. The quotes range from sentimental to hilarious. Hours of enjoyment to be had by all who love good cryptograms.



2. I recommend this book to anyone who loves good word fun. This is by far the most enjoyable book of cryptograms to be found on the market, and is very similar in the puzzle style found in Sean-Alonzo's underground hit Cryptogrammaton.



3. This inexpensive, sturdy, entertaining book contains 300 pleasurable, insightful and enlightening, even witty, quotes drawn from 30 of the world's most renowned thinkers, sages and philosophers, forming an eclectic collection that includes Epictetus, Cicero, Descartes, Wilde, Jung, Whitman and Einstein, among others. The quotes are encoded in substitution cipher of varying difficulty, and are guaranteed to keep you busy for hours as you find yourself using your intuition, your knowledge of spelling and syntax, and even your familiarity with each quoted personality to figure them out.
   The book also contains an introduction with general hints for solving cryptograms and, of course, the solutions for each puzzle are presented at the back of the book, along with an index of authors and topics for those searching for quotes from one or another individual or subject in particular.
   If you love cryptograms, buy this book.
   --Reviewed by Maritza Volmar



4. I just began doing cryptograms again - after about a year-long hiatus - and I have to say that I had forgotten just how fun & frustrating decoding cryptograms could be!
   
   "Clever Cryptograms" is filled with puzzles that, when solved, provide the reader with a quote that is either inspirational &/or thought provoking - food for both the mind & spirit.
   
   Each "chapter" focuses on the quotes of one specific person, including: St. Thomas Aquinas, Pearl Buck, Rene Descartes, Albert Einstein, and many, many, more.
   
   The only reason I gave this book 4 starts instead of 5 is because there are no hints - so, if you get stuck, you have to go the full solution and, at least for me, my eyes wind up wandering and I tend to see a lot more of the solution than I wanted...
   
   Overall, I think this is a fun cryptogram book, filled with much food for thought. So, if you can live without the hints, I'd recommend that you give it a try.

1 comments about Just Right Crosswords Volume 4: Beside The Fireplace Collection (NEA Crosswords).

1. This small crossword puzzle book is so simple as to be offensive. No challenge at all. Highly recommend against wasting your money on this book.

1 comments about The Everything Large-Print Crossword Challenge Book: Easy to Read, Tough to Solve (Everything Series).

1. Easier for older people to see and still hard enough to make them fun to do.

No comments about The New York Times Daily Crossword Puzzles Volume 68: 50 Daily-Size Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times (New York Times Daily Crossword Puzzles).

2 comments about Simon Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And Reference Book (Simon & Schuster Crossword).

1. The majority of our evaluators donned this colorful book to be out and out fun. Whether they were writing puzzles (sans computer programs) solving them or just reading through the vast information. The most common remarks were "It is funky, contemporary, and extremely well organized."

   Simon & Schuster has put together over 200,000 words which are arranged most proficiently. For example, if one needs a 6 letter word which is of the chemical ilk meaning toxic--turn to alpha order page TOXIC, peruse the additons, one of the entries by letter evaluation is DIOXIN.

   Far more than for crosswords, this informational fountain flows with a high level reference section. One can find anything from Grammy Award winners, best sport teams, historical facts, pop-culture and even current events (thru 1998-9).

   Superb for trivia buffs, lovers of words, crossword puzzlers.




2. I found very few circumstances were this reference book came even close to to the comprehensiveness of the "Random House Crossword Puzzle Dictionary". The only thing that recommends it is the easy to read type face.