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.

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1 comments about Random House Crossword Mega Omnibus, Volume 1 (RH Crosswords).

1. This is the first of this puzzler I have tried and I enjoyed it immensely. I was disappointed that when I returned to purchase Volume 2, that it was not available by this author at Amazon, but the title was available by another author. I clicked on "surprise me" to review a page by the other author, and it was not the same at all. I just went to the publisher of this book to order volume 2. It would be nice to have the United Features Sunday Puzzler books available through Amazon.

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3 comments about Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book #223 (Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Books).

1. I purchase this series of crossword puzzle books pretty often, but this one seems more difficult. This is great news to those of you looking for new clues; bad news to those of us who have struggled merrily in the past!



2. This Simon and Schuster series of crossword puzzles follows the same format of 50 puzzles per book. The cruciverbalists (crossword constructors) vary from puzzle to puzzle which makes for a variety of construction styles. The themed puzzles vary somewhat in difficulty and some are quite challenging. I recommend this series of books highly for one rather different reason as well-the paper the puzzles are printed on is very tough, quite erasable and a clear white which makes it easier to fill out puzzles in pencil (and correct mistakes). Puzzling aficionados will tell you-paper quality is important! You will find all the puzzles fun and a certain satisfaction in completing each one.



3. Better be a pro, cause these are a challange, the book is nice though, and the spiral binding is great so you can fold the pages back and work.

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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.

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