Puzzling
Back in January, 2009, I wrote a piece on GAMES magazine and honed in on my favourite puzzle format, cryptic crosswords. As explained then, these are crosswords constructed on word plays. Each entry has two clues, one straightforward, another not so straight.There are anagrams (things for changing times: ITEMS), homophones indicated by phrases like “we [...]
Two for One
True Scrabble fans know enough legitimate two-letter words to really annoy the casual player. To even the odds ever so slightly, I will list a dozen or so twofers, with definitions. Not surprisingly, many, like Ti, a woody plant native to the Pacific islands like Samoa and Tahiti, are not your English garden variety words [...]
