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 [...]
Cryptic Crosswords: The Games People Play
If you love word puzzles, then you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Games magazine or its sister publication, World of Puzzles, which appears in alternate months. Both contain a pot pourri of standard and quirky crosswords, encrypted ciphers and word searches, as well as a spate of trivial pursuits, eyeball [...]
