Fri 3 Apr 2009
Pocket Posh Puzzles Sweepstakes!
Category: Fun & Games
Even been stuck at a bus station, airport or a dentist’s office with nothing to do? Here’s your chance to win 4 beautifully designed puzzle books and bide your time in style!
Puzzles are great for develping your brain and keeping it sharp. These 4×6″ mini journals contain 100 puzzles each: crosswords, logic, word search and the ever-popular sudoku. And how about these gorgeous covers?? My favorite is dark blue velvet, closely followed by green and white raised polka dot. Cuteness!
These would make a lovely Mother’s Day gift. Many more varieties available here & are only $7.99 each!
To win: tell me in comments why you love puzzles or your favorite type of a puzzle! Winner will be picked at random the night of April 12th.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I love puzzles because they can sometimes change the way I reason through life…hehe! I love artsy story-esque logic problems, even if I can’t solve many of them…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I’ve loved puzzles ever since I was old enough to understand them. I always liked being challenged to look at a problem, puzzle, etc. from different angles in order to figure it out.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I love logic puzzles the best, where you use the little x’s to eliminate options in that nice big crosschart…I esepcially love puzzle because I have a big fear of flying, and airplanes…so I need distractions on a plane to help my brain think that I’m safe. Puzzle also help my brain exercise a little bit more, I love that feeling when you’ve solved a hard one :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I LOVE learning new and sometimes useless trivia, and I’m addicted to crossword puzzles.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
As a university student many hours are spent killing time on campus before class. this year on monday I had to wait from 10am untill 2:30 on campus. So to kill time me and a few friends would gather every newspaper available and work on crossword puzzles together. Sometime we would even go to the campus bar and do it with a round of Drinks and the bartenders would often join in the fun as well. Puzzlees are amazing things to bring people together and are a lot of fun when stuck bored.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I love doing crossword puzzles because it is like being on a mission….can’t quit until it is completed…..I love a chanllenge!!!!!!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I once made a puzzle in woodwork at school and after it had been painted and finished I could not figure the thing out myself. Probably my least favourite ever but the most satisfying to finally complete.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I love games, so my competitive side comes out, i will admit. So i use cross word puzzles to see who finds the words first, lol..they are great for when u go out to eat and ur waiting for ur food to come out, hahahahahah!!!!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I like word searches the best and crosswords the least… Both are word based but I think crosswords have this inside jokes/clues that I never get.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
completing a puzzle is more satisfying than eating a large meal.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
At my school, teachers would hold word search competitions between different classes, and I would either be the first person done or one of the top three. Word searches were pretty much the only thing I was good at outside of regular class work. School is always pretty awkward, so I guess I’m lucky to have found something I was good at then. I’ve never actually played Sudoku, but I’ve heard a lot about it.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I LOVE word scrambles and any type of word puzzle. I have a thing with letters!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I’ve loved word searches and sudoku ever since I heard that doing a puzzle a day can help prevent alzheimers disease. My great grandmother suffered and died from that horrible disease and I want to do everything I can to keep my mind in tact. The brain is a muscle you have to work constantly.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I love puzzles. We have one a month in our dorm magazine type thing. I especially love sudoku, so fun and brainless. Although if I want something a bit more challenging I go for word searches. I’m horrible at crosswords tho.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I love that puzzles help keep my mind a bit sharper. Love me some Sudoku, that I do every night before bed. I also like doing crosswords, but I usually do them with my grandmother, because she kicks ass at them, and I just like to help. It’s a little thing we do sometimes that feels special, because I’m doing it with her. :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I always like word searches but they don’t make you think that much. I was introduces to Sudoku at my last job. We would pass the time during 3rd shift trying to figure out the puzzles. Since then I’ve been hooked on it. It really exercises your brain.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I’ve been doing puzzles since I was very young. From jigsaw to sudoku, I love any kind of mind bender.
I grew up doing jigsaw puzzles with my grandmother, who has intricate puzzles she had done hanging on her living room and bedroom walls.
In school there were always crossword puzzles and word searches assigned during English class, and I was always quick to finish them.
When the sudoku craze hit I was in high school. During study hall, lunch, and any downtime in my classes I was doing them. This is probably my favorite type of puzzle, probably because you need to be 100% sure of where a number is supposed to go, so you need to be right to finish it.
Now I can start the cycle all over again by doing jigsaw puzzles with my son when he’s old enough!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
My absolute favorite puzzles are crossword puzzles. When I was younger, my mom and I used to do them together every day. She and I were never pressed for family time, but this was *our* thing. Anyway, not to get all mushy, but I always had fun with that, and to this day I still do crossword puzzles whenever I can — I’m addicted!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I love them all, but lately I’ve been a Sudoku addict! Can’t get enough of ‘em … :) The hubby and I have friendly little competitions to see who can beat them the quickest. I’m not admitting how often he wins.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Puzzles are an awesome way to pass time without feeling too much like you’re wasting it haha. I love sudoku, and word searches too! And I like crosswords as well, but most of the time there are clues that I don’t know (usually sports related) and I end up googling the answers :P
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
My favorite puzzle was the game rush hour, where you have little cars on a grid and you have to get the red car out of the parking lot! It’s surprisingly hard! XD
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Sudoku is my favorite. I have a Nintendo DS game with sudoku on it. I did all 100. :] I couldn’t stop doing them! Those 1000 piece puzzles are always fun too.
:D
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Oh my goodness! I love sudoku. And crossword puzzles. These look amazing… if I win I’ll give one to my mom for mom’s day and one to my grammy just because she loves this sort of thing~ lol. The other two… mine! :D
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I love (Finnish) crosswords (I’m Finnish) but I would love to try out English ones as well. I have a fairly wide vocabulary and crosswords teach me more everytime. I just love them.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I love logic puzzles, where you have to figure out who did what, where, and so one, number puzzles, sudoku, picture puzzles, anything really. In fact, the days I approach life as a big puzzle I feel I can handle the world.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I love sudoku. I usually have a mini sudoko book in my bag in case I have time to pass. It keeps my brain sharp.
I also love puzzle video games like atari 2600 othello, puzzle bobble, tetris etc…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I love puzzles because they’ve actually improved my fast math. From playing Brain Age and doing a few sudokus every day, I’ve actually gotten better at adding former toughies like 23+78. Good thing too, ’cause who ever heard of a pattern maker who was absent minded about adding?
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
My favourite puzzle is minesweeper. Plus, I love all the game on…gasp…neopets!! I was addicted to the puzzles on that site for a very, very long time. I like them because they are good for my brain!
oh, and of course I adore my beloved rubik’s cube. I’ve come so close to figuring it out!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
my favorite puzzles have always been jigsaw puzzles. I love the way that it slowly pieces together, for the beautiful end result. It’s always so satisfying.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I have the attention span of a puppy, but I love puzzles because they keep focused and sharp. I love crossword puzzles and word searches.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Those are adorable! I’m a crossword and sudoku junkie – always have been. My overactive brain needs constant stimulus! I don’t think that’s a bad thing. =)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I love doing crossword puzzles, especially with other people! I always do them upside-down so the bartenders can help. :)
Also, these are so cute I just bought one.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Woo, those are amazing!
I absolutely love puzzles, especially sudoku and logic… Sudoku because I adore Maths and Logic, well… it’s always a challenge! Crossword and Word Search in English always help, since I’m studying still…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
My father and I are totally addicted to crosswords puzzles!! And there`s one more reason I love them and recommend them: my grandmother was dignosed with Alheimer`s disease a few years ago and according to the doctor it has no cure, but can be prevented through “brain gym”, such as learning a foreing language or… PUZZLES!! Yay!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I love crosswords just like my Grandpa. When I was really little, I would sit on his knee and we would “do” the crosswords in the newspaper together. He was so fast at finding words and doing all sorts of puzzles, it just made me want to do them too.
My grandpa died when I was five, and whenever I do puzzles, I think of him. :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I love puzzels because they are a nice way to pass my time, without making me half braindead :P
I especialy like the kind of puzzels where you have to answer questions because they make me feel smart if I know the answers (called Swedish Puzzels in Dutch, I can’t find the English term) and I love Sudoku’s cause I suck at math and Sudoku’s make me feel that I can do atleast one thing right with numbers :D
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I actually do really love Sudoku puzzles. I think it’s the fact that you’re working with numbers but not actually doing math. I am RUBBISH at doing math, so figuring out number related puzzles makes me feel smart ;P
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
My favorite puzzles would have to be logic puzzles. The kind that will involve a story, and then require you to mentally (or on paper) graph out the information you know, and the information you have to figure out. My favorite way to do puzzles would definitely have to be the puzzles in Professor Layton and the Curious Village, for the Nintendo D.S.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I love any sort of word puzzles, I think it goes along with being and Lit./Writing major. On the flip side, I don’t understand the game of Sudoku, maybe I should buy a beginner’s edition, it couldn’t hurt to try, and you have inspired me to do so!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Tetris, hands down! I can play that for hours! I’ll play it to the point that I see things in real life that fit together like the tetris pieces(like in a patterned tile floor, or stacked boxes, etc)! It’s perfectly addicting! Not to mention that catchy theme song.
Sometimes I fall asleep with my cell phone in my hand, playing a game of Tetris.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Crosswords!
I bonded with my best male friend the first time we met over the Guardian Crossword, and we still do the crossword together under the desk in really boring lectures!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Definitely logic puzzles (like others have said, where you have to use the X and O to figure out who did what, where and when…) or fill-ins, kinda like crosswords but you just make the letters fit!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I definitely love word search and sudoku puzzles. They can keep you entertained for such a long time but are not too difficult to solve. So whenever you are tired or feeling a bit sick, you can still do them.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I love puzzles. All types of them.
But I really love crosswords even though I’m terrible at them. But my mom and I do them together. I’ll do the clues I know, then she’ll do the ones she knows, and we pass it back and forth until the puzzle is finished. It sounds lame, but it’s actually really fun.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
My favorite is still the good old jigsaw puzzle! After completing them I feel energized and accomplished!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I love all kinds of puzzles, crosswords are my favorite!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I like jig-saw puzzles because my mom and I use to play with them. My mum died on my 19th birthday (I’m 23 now), so now every time I play with a puzzle, I think of her.
The ones I like the most are some really old vintage ones form Strawberry Shortcake and Lady Lovely Locks that were made in the 80s; I love nostalgic memories they bring back.. Also, one with some white fluffy kittens my mum got me, I mean come on, KITTENS!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
My favourite puzzles are wordsearches. I love doing puzzles because they really do pass the time and they’re good for your brain :p
xx
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I love all different types of puzzles, crossword, sudoku, jigsaw etc. I find them very relaxing.
When I am trying to a solution to a problem in everyday life I find that doing doing a puzzle lets my brain work on that problem in the background and when I’m finished the puzzle I have come up with the solution.
love your site!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I love crossword puzzles if I’m lazy and logic problems if I’m in the mood to think. I can definitely say that my love for puzzles has helped me in life. Standardized tests are a breeze thanks to my deductive reasoning skills! Unfortunately playing games like Trivial Pursuit and Cranium with friends has become hard. They get annoyed with my word knowledge, so I’m still searching for a worthy opponent! :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
so cute!
I am a fan of Matrix Logic puzzles. As a kid, I would skip recess to figure out what kind of ice cream Jimmy would want for dessert.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
i’m a very ponctual person…and i have a lot of friends and a boyfriend who are always late….
so these puzzles book would help me to wait at a metro station, a street corner or at school without looking too alone and not occupied :P
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
My grandma helped me how to make crosswords easier and my mom showed how a sudoku works, I still ask her for the next number if I get frustrated when I can’t figure it out. I like puzzles because it gives me something to do and it makes me feel accomplished when I can finish one by myself. They make long train and bus rides less boring, but in the afternoon and evening all the papers are gone, or the puzzles are already filled in.. So a pretty puzzle book would be great ;)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I’m a huuuuge fan of jigsaw puzzles and sudoku, because they both prove that everything has it’s place…which is true in both the puzzle and in life.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Personally, I love sudoku. I learned it in my middle school math class, and have played it ever since. My friend Matt has a big book of the puzzels, and I always make him rip one out for me. :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I like puzzles because I am a fidgety lady. I loved to do sudoku puzzles in university classes to keep from drifting off to sleep.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I’m a crossword puzzle junkie. My favorite one is printed in the back of The Enquirer every week. It’s not a celebrity puzzle that’s easy to solve, either, it’s the best one! I’m thinking about getting a tattoo of a crossword puzzle too.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
My family LOVES puzzles and word games. I have been playing scrabble with them since like I was 7. I am not horrible at puzzles, but I’m probably the worst out of my family (there’s four of us). So what better way to improve then to practice with cute puzzle books. =) Actually if I did win, I’d probably share the sudoku with my sister because she loves sudoku. She is always doing one, yeah she’s hooked. And my dad, well he has been doing crosswords for as long as I can remember…I know the cover of the crossword puzzles is a little girly for my dad, but I really don’t think he’d care…lol. =) Anyway, so yeah I think it’d be great to have these, and there’s one for each member of my puzzle loving family.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
My absolute favorite type of puzzle is the Sudoku. I have never loved a puzzle as much as I love that one and I’m actually not sure why. I think it’s because it just clicked really easily and I could do them quickly whereas with other puzzles I’ll get frustrated and have to stop.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
When I was younger I loved putting together cardboard puzzles because I love tiny pieces fitting together to make a whole, the same way that I paint now. I do enjoy crossword puzzles because they challenge me! And I like a challenge.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Actually, what I love about puzzles is how much they bring friends together!
I met some great friends doing crosswords in prep-school! A friend was waiting for the class to start and she notices someone was having a hard time on a crossword! She decided to help and so did I! Then, we started to play together every day and became very good friends!
Then, I once was stuck on an online riddle and then I asked a friend to come home and help me and we spent the whole day doing riddles until we completed all!
It was one of the funniest days! We kept doing things like that ’till there wasn’t online riddles anymore…
I think my favorite kind of riddle is logic…
I feel like I just can’t give up!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
ops! Kind of puzzle!
But, to me, riddle is a puzzle! XD and my favorite kind! (Is riddle fit in logic? I was confused if it was puzzle or logic… x.x’ my english is so messed up sometimes! XDDD)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I like puzzles because it’s a playful way to exercise my brain. I love sudoku but logic puzzles are always the most satisfying.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
i love puzzles because i feel so accomplished when i complete one.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
wait, is it kind of puzzle? if so, then wordsearch. those are the best.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I found my love for puzzles at the early age of 3 when my mom would sit me down in front of one of those matching puzzles where you match the farm animal to the right space I remember feeling really proud of myself when I would get it right. Now my favourite type of puzzle would definately be Crosswords.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Before I started blogging I did number puzzles to pass the time, usually sudoku or addoku. I’m such a nerd that when the puzzles started to get too easy I began timing myself. Eventually I filled up my book of puzzles that was an inch thick.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
These are adorable! I work in a stationery store, and I think I will tell the owner that we should order these!
I read a lot, and I love scrabble (when I find someone obliging), so it makes sense that crosswords are my favorite! I always loved watching my grandma do her crosswords.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I like crosswords. A lovely mix of trivia and spelling. I have horrible spelling so it helps hone those skills while I have fun!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I get super bored at work, so I do sudoku puzzles from the newspaper, and they help me not go crazy. And when I get home, if I have any handy, I put together (500+ pieces) puzzles while watching shows on DVD to relax.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I love puzzles because they are a way to pass the time while engaging your brain. My favorite puzzles are wordfinds and riddles. When I was in elementary school my teacher would give us wordfinds and crosswords to help us learn vocab and those were my favorite assignments because they would only take five minutes!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I love puzzles, specially sudokus because: i can actually fill them, have fun AND (most importantly) I can make one while I’m at class! There’s nothing better than exercicing the mind while the teacher is talking about boring articles of the civil code :P
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I have to say that Sudoku puzzles are my absolute favorite puzzles ever and second to that are fill-ins. I love how they can stimulate your mind and at the same time help you pass the time. :D
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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
puzzles rock cause they test my patience!! x)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
riddles are the best puzzles of all! I love to wrap my mind and twist the words to be how I want!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I have such fond memories of putting together jigsaw puzzles with my grandfather! All sorts – old ones he had had for decades, and new ones he picked up at the store just for me. It’s a past time I surely miss. Sometimes I help my Granny with her crosswords too :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
How cute are those!!!
I love puzzles for several reasons. For one, I love to exercise my brain! I believe it helps to keep me healthy. :D
Secondly – but most importantly – is that as a little girl, I would do all sorts of puzzles with my parents and grandparents (especially my mother and my grandmother). It was always a lot of fun to spend time with them, and I know that them taking time out for me helped me a great deal in my development! Sadly, my grandmother had a massive stroke approximately two years ago, and the damage that she suffered has ended our “puzzle-dates”. But every time I do one, I think of her.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
My favorite puzzles would have to be Sudoku, because working at a terribly boring grocery store was only made bearable by the wonders of Sudoku!
:)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Crossword puzzles definetly
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I love to challenge myself, so puzzles are a natural for me! As a vocabulary freak, I’ve always loved word puzzles–crosswords, word searches, word scrambles…you name it! What better way is there to snap out of a rut and exercise your mind at the same time?
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I love puzzles because they occupy my brain when nothing else can, and they challenge me. I think they are a great way to train your brain to think in different ways. I love having puzzle books with me when I’m traveling.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I love puzzles because they provide a more productive way to pass time than reading a trashy tabloid!
I really like sudoku, but I SUCK at it and I can only do the super easy ones I find online. Ah well :( I keep practicing!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Love Puzzles! Even since I heard that there are nuns on an island near Greece who live to all sorts of old age but never have any of the common ‘old age’ problems western oldies get like dementia, alzheimers etc – and their big secret?!?! I know you want to know!! It’s doing reading, eating healthy & testing themselves & each other with a huge variety of puzzles!! Yeah!! Bring on an alert & intelligent life!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I love Sudokus and usually I do them when I´m in the bathroom!!! hihihi
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Oh these are adorable! I love all manner of puzzles, but i particularly enjoy word games, as I like to pretend I’m a spy deciphering a secret code :)
When I was a kid I used to enjoy making crossword puzzles for my little sister.
I also love sudoko. I like to make my own sometimes…..yes, I’m a nerd!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I love puzzles because I feel like a genius when I solve one.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I’ve never seen these before!
I love mazes…I could play with them for hours. xD It’s just satisfying to finally see the right line from start to finish. xP
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I love logic puzzles and brain teasers. and sudoku. I love the feeling I get when I figure out an especially hard puzzle. Some people might think its just a silly puzzle, but I get a real sense of satisfaction. Puzzles are my favourite study break, because I still am using my brain but I am not studying my Stats or History.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I loved puzzles as a kid. Of course, being a teenager is still like being a kid. I could spend hours upon hours figuring out the clues, amusing myself by finding the answer after a time of wonderful deduction. Although I don’t have as much time any more to solve puzzles anymore, whenever I can get my hand on one it consumes all of my attention. I would be ecstatic for the opportunity to be able to solve as many puzzles as these! Just the thought of pouring over these for hours at a time makes me deliriously happy.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I like a good old-fashioned crossword, they’re great for sitting on the train with to stop you from being bored, they help you to learn new words and to keep your brain ticking over because you have to remember words that you wouldn’t normally use in your every-day vocabulary.
They’re also lovely for when you’re at home with a boy, sitting together by the fire completing your puzzle and drinking cups of tea.
xx x
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
My favourite puzzle is sudoku!
I was very slow on the sudoku-craze, which is great as I’ve now made my entire family obsessed!
It’s my favourite past time when I’m travelling, as I never sleep well on planes and buses…and I just love the feeling of completing a puzzle! :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
These are very cute!
I’ve always enjoyed crossword puzzles and word searches, they keep my hands and my mind busy when I might otherwise be bored. They are also great for students to help them learn vocabulary and spelling words!
Lately, however, I’ve been getting into Logic puzzles. And, while I often find myself throwing my hands up in defeat, I’m always tickled when I figure out the answer. :)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I love a good challenge, and it feels SOO good to solve them when I finally do. My favorite type…Hmmm….Logic and, word puzzles, I think.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I love puzzles because they are fun and portable. I can do them on the bus, or like you said in your post, while waiting at the airport. Also, I think someone else said this as well, but completing a puzzle (or even finding a solution to a difficult Sudoku column) is phenomenal.
And these little books are so cute!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I simply adore logic puzzles and puzzles that force me to think in different ways. I get such a buzz out of pushing myself like that!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I love puzzles b/c i can always learn new words in word search or make myself think more when i do the crossword puzzles. there also awesome to kill time. my favorite is word search(even if it takes me like forever to do one)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
My favourite puzzles aren’t really puzzles at all. You usually find them in puzzle books though. They’re the things where they give you half the picture and you have to complete the other half. I also love the fact that they only come in little kid books and i get to take out something that sais My First Dinosaurs or I’m A Princess Too!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
i haven’t been to school in years but puzzles are a good way to keep the mind challenged. I have a two-hour commute to work all the way from NJ (NJ transit is so slow)! I’d love a puzzle or two to keep me busy!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I love, love, love puzzles because they make me stretch my mind in a marvelous sort of way. Sudoku is my favorite, I do believe.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
My favorutie type would have to be celebrity/movie crosswords, because I can usually get the anwser right. I’m actually a big fan of real pusszles, like 1000 piece puzzels. I like examining all the pieces to find the colours that match.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I love crosswords and sudoku puzzles. Boring I know, but I do love them. I have both for my DS!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I love (LOVE) crosswords and sudoku puzzles. When I would wake up in the morning I would always find my father either doing one or the other, and he’d invite me to join and help him. As I grew up it evolved into the opposite –I would begin the puzzles and he would help me finish them.
Now that we no longer live under the same roof, I continue to do them each morning and it kinda reminds me of those days…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Oh, I love puzzles! When I was growing up, we always had dozens of those ‘THE BIG PUZZLE BOOK FOR KIDS’ books around the house, or whatever they’re called. Mazes were my especial favourite, but now it’s crosswords. I love crosswords because they help me with my other big obssession – trivia!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I love puzzles because it makes you think, when you really don’t need to. Which sounds messed up, but it makes sense to me. :P My favorite is suduko (in pencil of course :P)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
goood! i do love puzzles.. they tendo to bring me back to the old days with my grandpa.. he taught me everything i know… with puzzles i learned to read at the age of 3!!!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I like logic games- and word ones. even though it’s not really a puzzle per say I think I like tetris a lot…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
A few years ago my mom had breast cancer. While my dad and I were waiting in the waiting rooms for her to get done with various surgeries and treatments, we got through it by working on sudokus. Now my mom is fine, and my dad is retired. We both still enjoy sudoku, but they also make me just a little sad.
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April 4th, 2009 at 12:12 am
I love puzzles, and have many puzzle books already, so I don’t officially want to enter this contest. I more want to comment on how incredibly popular your blog seems to be getting. In the first contest you got, what, 15, 20 entries? By the time I saw this one, you already had over 100 comments. Yikes, this place is really getting the traffic now. Not a bad thing, I guess.
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April 4th, 2009 at 12:17 am
These are too cute!
I’ve always LOVED word searches! I have a bunch of those cheap word search books from the dollar store to keep me busy, haha. It’s fun because it feels like I’m helping my eyesight, keeping my eyes quick, and it forces me to notice things and pay attention.
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April 4th, 2009 at 12:44 am
I am a puzzle nerd. I used to have subscriptions to different puzzle magazines (not magazines about puzzles, but filled with puzzles and brain teasers). I just love them. I like the puzzle games on addictinggames.com too.
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April 4th, 2009 at 1:38 am
My favourite puzzle has to be sudoku even if it drives me crazy sometimes!
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April 4th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I absoluyrly love crucipixels and sudoku! I always try to solve those while i’m on the train that gets me to university
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April 4th, 2009 at 2:11 am
My favourites are definitly:
1. A rubiks cube and
2. Scrabble
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April 4th, 2009 at 3:15 am
I enjoy sudoku and enjoy the feeling of satisfaction I get when I complete a puzzle.
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April 4th, 2009 at 3:35 am
These are adorable!
Why do I like puzzles? Sorry for the lengthy answer, but here’s why!
There are so many different kinds of puzzles–many choices depending on my mood! From the Rubix Cube to soduku, everytime I set out to conquer one I feel myself sink into a whole new type of thinking! It’s hard to explain, but it’s almost like you feel the other side of your brain working! I love that sensation because it puts me in my own world (of concentration.)
But my favorite puzzle of all is…organic chemistry problems! (I’m a university student majoring in chemistry :] ) Have you ever taken organic chem, Doe Deere? If yes, splendid! If not, that’s great too, ’cause here’s why it’s my favorite puzzle: You’re given a problem and told to find out how to make it. It requires creative thinking and it really is putting a puzzle together. You get one reaction, it takes you here. How do you get to the product? Using this reaction will get you here, one step closer, and on and on you go! Selectively picking from your mental toolbox of reactions is actually quite fun! Plus, if you can live off doing hardcore puzzles (aka chemist), heck yes, my creative side will grow tall!
Thanks for reading! I’ll be sure to return the favor as I continue to keep up with your blog posts! ♪♥♪
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:41 am
My favourite puzzle has to be jigsaws and word searches. I know they’re very “simple” but somehow I find that they to cross cultural boundaries; for example, if I try to do a crossword that pertains to American History, I wouldn’t know very much since I’m not a citizen nor did I learn any. I enjoy doing them when I need to take a break form drawing, or just as an activity before bedtime.
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I am not good at problem solving.
)8*-(
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:04 am
I love puzzles. Even when I was really young I loved them! I used to get bullied a lot (still do, of sorts) and puzzles would always keep me busy. Like I was in a whole other world of intellect instead of stupid insults. Word searches, soduku, jigsaws. Name a puzzle, I’m sure I’d love it.
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:59 am
I have always really enjoyed puzzles, it’s like meditation for me. I always need to be doing something and sitting down working on puzzles, crosswords etc. have always helped me level out after a long day. I love logic problems because I am very analytical and also a Capricorn. I’ve never seen puzzles look so stylish! hahaha
xoxoCandyKisses
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Oh what a nice little game! I love puzles because they help me develop my memory, because they keep boredrom away from me and simply because they’re fun!
<3!
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:58 am
I love doing puzzles on rainy days when you’ve got coursework to do, and you think “Should I contribute to my GCSEs? Nah, I’ll do a sudoku.”
Love it. xxx
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April 4th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Crosswords are my favourites, followed closely by sudoku though I only really started enjoying them when I bought Brain Training for the DS, for some reason on paper they didn’t appeal until after I’d played them with a stylus!
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April 4th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I only love puzzles on paper, otherwise I get easily bored if I have to be looking to a screen. It’s amazing how those games can get you addicted for a long time, and I hate to leave them unfinished! I couldn’t tell just one reason why I like them – I just do-!
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April 4th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I’m a big fan of word searches and also love logic puzzles. when I was a kid I always played mastermind and scrabble with my mum, which was a great way to pass the cold winter evenings.
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April 4th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I love crosswords, because when I first met my boyfriend at work in an ice cream parlour, we would wile away the quiet boring days by doing crosswords and bonding over them. After we got together, he told me that he would sometimes not answer all of them to let me get the answers!
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April 4th, 2009 at 9:17 am
i love puzzles of all kinds!!! My latest craze is Sudoku…i have an electronic mini sudoku and i carry it with me all the tiume!@ But my all time favorite has to be the short detective stories i used to real in my dad;s journal since i was a kid! There used to be a page with a mini detective story and in the end you were supposed to guess who was the criminal. I almost always got it right…i loved it!!!
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April 4th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Puzzles are instant, cheap and portable entertainment and you don’t have to worry about recharging, or batteries dying at crucial moments!
I love sharing a crossword with friends, and the satisfaction of completing a puzzle. Also – if those minutes spent doing a puzzle are helping my memory and having long term effects than that’s just the icing on the cake!
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April 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Puzzles are super fun because I love exercising my brain! Plus I feel super smart if I can figure them out :)
Logic puzzles are definitely my favorite type of puzzle!
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I like puzzles because they keep me on my toes. I feel like they’re sort of like little warm-ups for my brain.
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I get bored very easily, so puzzles keep me occupied. Plus, a good puzzle keeps my mind stimulated and keeps me thinking sharp. I especially like word puzzles, like crosswords or word searches because stuff like that helps me expand my vocabulary. (It’s probably why I like board games like Scrabble and Boggle and Scategories, too!)
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
logic puzzles…. just too much fun! thanks doe deere <3
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I have social anxiety so I download puzzle type games on my phone and play them to calm down when I get overwhelmed. People usually just think I’m texting…
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Nothing is better than taking a nice warm bath, followed by lying in bed doing a crossword. Best way to end a long day.
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April 4th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I love puzzles because I can do them virtually anytime, anywhere and it keeps my brain occupied. My favourites are cryptograms, but I’m not very good at them at all! Still, they’re a lot of fun to figure out. I also love a good word search.
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April 4th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
i love puzzles because of the rush i get when i complete one! i love getting things done!
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April 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I love puzzles! Sudokus are probably my favorite; I just like how everything is connected and logical. Crosswords are fun too, but I’m not very good at them… I just like looking through and figuring out how many I know.
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April 4th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Although I’m more into videogames, I love puzzles! Jigsaw puzzles are my favorite. My current favorite jigsaw puzzle is an all-white one, which is actually online:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/whitejigsaw/whitejigsaw.html
It’s very challenging and fun :)
PS: It’s scientifically proven that women are better than men at solving jigsaw puzzles. This is probably because it’s mostly been women sorting out the laundry. :D
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April 4th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Oh boy, I love logic puzzles. I can spend HOURS doing them, especially when I worked at a middle school and got to work on them with my class. Word search and crosswords are purely fun. I’m horrible at crosswords but they’re fun to do with people while passing time! I’m horrific at sudoku but maybe one day I’ll be better? Who knows. Anyway, puzzles are so much fun. They’re such a good way to pass time at an airport or while I’m waiting in between classes and meetings at Uni. Of course, a good way to procrastinate! hahaha. This puzzle books you found are so cute! If I get them, I might share with friends because I know lots of people who are also puzzle fiends!
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April 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
My favourite thing about puzzles is that its a great way to keep testing your intellect even when you have a manic and busy lifestyle. I’m in the final months of an English Literature degree and a quick break from my dissertation for Soduku or a crossword always relaxes me and gives me a fresh mind for the return to work. I’ve always struggled with maths thanks to number and anologic dyslexia and since discovering number puzzles I’ve learned to tell time at the grand old age of 21 and find basic sums, essential for everyday life, so much easier.
They test your intellect without you realising, they help keep you quick minded and are so much fun too!
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April 4th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I absolutely love the type of 3d puzzles that also function as decorative art. They’re beautiful, super hard, but unique enough to peak anyone’s interest. When I was growing up, I used to wait with anticipation for the puzzle-mania catelogue when I would spend hours trying to figure out which crazy puzzle to buy with my allowance. I would always try and see if I could figure them out just by the picture that way I had a head start when my puzzle finally arrived
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
those are so cute!
my favorite kinds of puzzles are logic puzzles. i gotta keep my brain active, you know!
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
My favorite types of puzzles are crossword puzzles. I’ve developed such an extensive vocabulary just from doing crosswords every day. I read that doing one puzzle a day reduces your risk of Alzheimer’s. If that’s the case, I don’t have a care in the world. I average about 5 crosswords a day!
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
When I was little (like really little) I was hooked on logic puzzles. I’d sit with my mum for hours trying to figure them out.
I’m still the same.
Sudoku is my current poison. I’m an addict.
I love the challenge and refuse to back down and be defeated. I love the sense of acomplishment that comes when completing a particularly fiendish puzzle.
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I love logic puzzles. If there’s a lot going on and I feel like I cant focus all I have to do is sit down and work on a logic puzzle. Its like my thoughts line up perfectly. I almost always feel better after working on a logic puzzle.
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I love puzzles — always have! I especially love word games, and the ones where you have to recall items you saw on a previous page
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I love logic puzzles! The more I use the more bright and broad my thinking becomes. I really see a huge difference in my productivity and creativity when I’m playing fun mental games like those. Anything involving pattern recognition absolutely rocks me! Also, it turns out that puzzles count as play and play is a very needed part of our everyday lives!
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I love all kinds of puzzles. I have been doing word searches for years and love the JUMBLE in the newspaper (especially the final one where you unscramble the letters from the circles to get the mystery answer). I have been doing sudoku since before it was popular and when I get bored I pick a really long word and try to find as many smaller words as possible.
I started doing puzzles when I learned that dementia runs in my family and one of the best ways to prevent it is to do puzzles. These books would have definitely given me something to do when I spent the day in Dulles airport!
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April 4th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I love sudoku the best. I really like numbers and so this puzzle just makes so much sense to me. Even more than I love working through a couple sudoku puzzles, I love explaining to someone who doesn’t know how to play, well, how to play. I like that moment of ‘Aha! I get it!’ and I know they’ll be hooked on it like I am c:
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April 4th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
A puzzle is a gift to us.
A place to go when life gets tough.
To take our mind and structure it anew.
To be smart, to be beautiful, to be cool.
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April 4th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I love logic puzzles as well. One logic puzzle disguised as a game that I loved was Dream Date. The one where there is the phone in the middle, and you and your friends have to figure out which guy “really likes you” by using the clues as your guide (with such gems as, he is NOT wearing a tie). I loved that game. I owned at that game.
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April 4th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
oh gosh, my favorite would have to be this puzzle that my mom has. It is a wooden wine holder, but the catch is, there is a “lock” on it! It has little wooden cubes and spheres! I have never figured it out! But my mom, she’s done it like 6 times, but in the end, you still have to put it back on! And that requires the directions to do! It’s ironic how getting it back on is harder than getting it off!
PS those little books are the cutest!!!
~Sandy <3
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April 4th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I love video games, but sometimes I get worried that my brain isn’t active enough.
I solve that by playing puzzle games on my DS. I’m hooked on Sudoku and Picross at the moment, although I’ve played though Professor Layton (it’s chock full of logic/puzzles/brain teasers, etc). Last night, I was playing Picross until 4:30 AM.
Plus, since they’re video games, I can replay old puzzles without erasing previous answers, or recopying a puzzle on a new sheet of paper.
Oh, and this isn’t a pen-and-paper puzzle, but I went through a Rubik’s Cube phase last year. You only have to memorize a few algorithms to solve it; it’s much easier than you would think!
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I Absolutely love Quizzles. Its a Logic Game where you figure out who does what and where, kinda like clue.
Its a problem solving, deduction game. It was created by Wayne Williams, and I absolutely love it! I tried to look online to show off some examples, but alas I can’t. If you want to see some books here’s a link to amazon link
What I love best is going through the Dollar Store and looking for a book that is filled with puzzles! I’m addicted to them, it could be logic, numbers or Kakuro, I love them all! When I had money, I would go to the dollar store once a month to grab books filled with puzzles. My mom, sister and I are addicted to them. You should try it out, they come in one volume like a variety pack!
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I love puzzles because they’re a great way of passing time. It is also a great way to keep your brain working :] They’re super addicting and fun to do! Love them! These books are super cute! I’d love to have them .
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I love word searches XD I was a pro at them in elementary school and would win little prizes in contests.
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April 5th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I love CROSSWORDS and logic puzzles because they help keep my mind sharp, useful when debating with husband.
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April 5th, 2009 at 5:47 am
I love puzzles because they used to save me from my tedious filing job. I would print out puzzles from the internet and tuck them under my keyboard or a file and do them while I worked…thinking about both work and a puzzle made my brain stretch in a blissfully challanging way.
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April 5th, 2009 at 7:34 am
When going on a long trip, part of my “packing” includes a cross word puzzle, word search puzzle, and my latest addiction sodoku. They are just a really great way to keep yourself entertained when there’s nothing better to do. I usually buy the compact paper back edition you can get at any national bookstore.. but these are very stylish and cute, I never thought they’d make puzzles in such fashion savvy packages! I’d really enjoy these!
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April 5th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I love doing puzzle books while I travel :D We also have a big book of sudokus on our toilet so I can fil in a few numbers and then leave, so it takes me weeks to finish it xD My favourite one is a “logiquiz” (like this where you get hints to fill it in :)
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
I love jigsaw puzzles. I sit at the table with my whole family and we all work together, it’s good for family bonding!
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I love sudoku. If I want to forget my problems for a while, I do puzzles – it helps me not to concentrate on the bad stuff.. :))
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April 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I love Lateral Thinking Puzzles :D!
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:07 am
logic puzzles are the most fun for me because I can figure out other people’s lives – even if they’re not real people
and it is fun to get closer and closer to the end!
I like the book with the pink color <3 I love pink!
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I love puzzles because they give me something ~intelligent~ to do. :P It’s nice to have to think deeply to solve it once in a while.
My favourites are Swedish puzzles. Like crosswords, only even more fun. :D
ps. Those are some of the prettiest books I’ve ever seen *__*
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I’ve always been a fan of doing the crossword in the morning paper. It’s something to keep my mind active during the day, on breaks at work and school.
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April 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
My favourite puzzle of all time has got to be a good ol’ Crossword Puzzle. It makes me feel so satisfied when I know I have comepleted one. Not to mentione a daily dose of articulation.
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April 5th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
i like also the words game or any word challenge in Spanish most of the time but how interesting will be to practice some of my not very articulated english with some fun games!!! will love to
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April 5th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I Love jigsaw puzzles. I never used to, but I do now, and heres why! One day we went to visit my Husbands Grandmother, she had a puzzle piece stuck to her forearm. We let her go for awhile without telling her, and she didnt feel it. When we did finally tell her, she had the longest, loudest laugh we had ever heard.. She died last January, but we still smile and remember her whenever we see jigsaw puzzles!
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April 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I love Crossword puzzles, but I’m not that good at them, haha. I love Sudoku, and can spend hours doing them!
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April 5th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I’m kinda addicted to wordsearches!
I was in hospital when I was 7 and my parents left me with a bumper word search book. I spent many hours in the bed completing word searches & have been a devotee of them ever since! I still have the same gigantic bumper wordsearch book, though it’s sadly almost completed. Time for a new one?
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April 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I like puzzles for a few reasons.
1) When I’m bored, they serve well as both a great distraction and escape from reality, and my mother doesn’t feel the need to tell me “STOP frying your brain!!” while I’m entertaining myself with them, the which is a huge plus. She sees it as a waste of time whenever I glue my eyes to the TV or computer screen, so working my logic and/or knowledge is something that makes her happy.
2) You learn without even realizing it. Sudoku, for example, helps with number sense, while crossword puzzles add to your vocabulary and knowledge, introducing you to new synonyms, antonyms, and interesting facts.
3) You can work on certain puzzles by yourself, or with other people. For example: whenever I go to my Nana’s house, she always has a new puzzle box out on the card table, ready to be opened. Once we open it, nothing else can be done until all of the pieces are put together. Sometimes, when there are missing pieces, we make our own out of paper and color them in. It’s so much fun for us. I’ve learned a lot about my Nana throughout the time we’ve spent doing puzzles, because we talk about stories from different points in our lives and I love sharing that time with her – it’s our own little tradition that we’ve made.
At the same time, though, puzzles can be done alone, which is also useful, because sometimes you don’t feel like talking or being around other people – you want time alone.
Puzzles are just so fun and a great way to spend your time! (=
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April 5th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I like puzzles because I like the feeling I get when I figure them out.
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I like puzzles because they mirror my life;
Confusing until you put the pieces together~
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April 6th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I love crossword puzzles. :) I got into crosswords about 4-5 years ago. My ex was a late sleeper, so every time I stayed over at his house, I’d go downstairs to hang out with his family and read the newspaper. It didn’t take long for me to get hooked on crosswords.
When I started dating my current boyfriend, I introduced him to the wonderful world of crosswords. Now, we do them together!
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Oh, wow, I love puzzles. For a while I was addicted to Sodoku and even wound up (and totally aceing!) a logic class in high school. I love word problems, but I especially have a fondness for riddles. I blame my father for that one, and the great J. R. R. Tolkien. No, seriously, my favorite chapter in all of his works would have to be Riddles in the Dark from The Hobbit. I spent HOURS pouring over them as a small child (The Hobbit was my bedtime story) and in first grade, when it was my turn to be the Court Jester, the one who brought in a joke every day to share with the class, I brought in various riddles from The Hobbit. To this day, those are the first ones I’ll run to when people are throwing riddles at each other.
I also spent a very large amount of time trying to figure out the potions riddle in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. But I realized that was hard to do when you didn’t have the bottles lined up in front of you. Hell, I even stopped reading Goblet of Fire to sit there and figure out what the Sphinx was asking in the third task. I was also completely obsessed with a book I had about the Riddle of the Sphinx.
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:18 am
I like crossword puzzles and Sudoku. Though, I do better with the difficult Sudokus than the easy ones, and the only crossword puzzles I can finish are the ones in People Magazine and other magazines like that. The newspaper ones are way too tricksy for me.
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April 6th, 2009 at 2:04 am
I always liked crosswords when I was little, but I didn’t get very good at them until my mother and I began doing them together when I was about 10 years old. I never did care for sudoku, though, probably because numbers intimidate me, haha.
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April 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Crosswords! My mom & I used to do those all of the time together when I lived with her. It was interesting to see what a collaboration of two generations could do to one of those puzzles. ;x
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April 6th, 2009 at 5:05 am
I love logical puzzles, because when i do one, i feel like Sherlock Holmes
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April 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Hey Doe,
I love SuDoku. My mom got me this giant book of 300 different puzzles and I did 100 in a week! I can’t get enough. I;m th sudoku expert at my school now!
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April 6th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I love, love, love puzzles and I love the covers on these ones. I am a little ashamed to admit that i love arrow words.
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April 6th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Sudoku puzzles are my favorites, hands down. I love the really challenging ones because I get a sense of accomplishment after I finish it.
Next to Sudoku puzzles are word searches. They’re light, easy and can be finished on short bus trips!
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April 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I love puzzles because not only can they help pass time, but they stimulate your mind. They help keep your thoughts sharp!! Great giveaway!!
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April 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Wow, I had no idea so many of you were into this! :)))) I’m shocked… puzzled!
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April 6th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I really was never into puzzles until I had to spend a lot of time at the hospital with my grandpa. My grandma was already accustomed to this and brought along a crossword book and also gave me one. They live in California now and whenever I see or do one, I always think of ‘em and it makes me smile.
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am
My favourite puzzle has always been a word search puzzle.
Just because I love just WORDS so much… I don’t know why they’re so much fun, but they are. =]
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April 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
A lot of why I love puzzles is because my parents love them! I have so many fuzzy memories of them filling out crosswords together, and nowadays it’s sudoku. <3
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I love puzzles! The affirmation of a brain that still works, a challenge without consequences (unlike career oriented challenges), and the best known antidote to keeping Alzheimer’s at bay a little longer (my mother’s was diagnosed at 50 and I’m getting closer to 50 everyday). Puzzles are entertaining, relaxing and life affirming!
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
My favourite puzzle is a Word Fill In. It’s like a crossword puzzle with the answers already given to you in a list, and you have to figure out where they go through deductive reasoning.
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April 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I LOVE good old-fashioned crossword puzzles. there is just something about sipping my morning tea or coffee and diving into one. :D
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April 6th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Oooh how cute!
My favourite kind of puzzle is logic. Call me geeky but it’s like solving a mystery and I can pretend I’m Nancy Drew. And unlike crosswords you’ll never get stuck because you don’t know the name of a particular tributary of the Amazon. All the info you need is right there and you just have to look at it the right way.
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April 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I love to play puzzle games on my Nintendo DS. Professor Layton and Brain Age keep me sharp. I can carry around all the time in my purse b/c it is so small and whip it out if I’m ever needing to kill time.
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April 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I love all kinds of puzzles, like picture puzzles I love to do while I’m at work [a preschool] because it passes the time and because no matter how small the puzzle it’s easy for me to be drawn to it. I guess that goes for any kind of toys for the most part. I love crossword puzzles, though. They’re my absolute favorite because I love spelling and words and such, and I was always in spelling bees so I took an interest in them when I was younger, starting with the back of cereal boxes! I used to have a huge book of crossword puzzles. I also love puzzle games, like Mastermind and Tetris, Tetris being my absolute favorite game of all time. I think any kind of puzzle is easy to be attracted to because humans are naturally problem solvers.
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April 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I am addicted big time to Sudoku! When I’m meant to be taking really important notes in the lectures theatre, what am i really doing, look close, is it a note book or a sudoku puzzle book!?!
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April 6th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I love puzzles because there so easy and yet so challenging, in elementary school they would always give us crosswords or word finds to do before tests with all the information for the tests in them. pretty wicked idea on our teachers part. but those puzzle books look really cute, especially with the size of them great find.
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April 6th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
My grandma used to do a lot of puzzles when I was a kid. She had a little breakfast nook area in her house that no one ever ate in, and the table there was always covered puzzle pieces. My brother and I used to help put them together with her when we’d go see here every Thursday night.
I recently got back into playing puzzles, word games, etc when I discovered pogo.com. I’m absolutely addicted to anything to do with words, but sometimes notalgia brings me back to their online jigsaws as well.
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April 7th, 2009 at 1:19 am
I have very, very fond memories of summers spent with family friends in a small cottage by the beach, so small that the kids had to sleep in three-tired bunk beds with many a night making farting sounds and giggling until we feel asleep. Puzzle games would be brought out on the one or two days that it would rain during the stay and the one chance for parents and kids to rack their brains and have fun making up meanings for silly words or realising our math skills weren’t quite up to scratch. Either way, those rainy days were some of the best days and I do miss them.
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April 7th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I am addicted to soduku! I recently decided to ban myself from buying the Saturday paper (it has a super sumari soduku- it’s five in one!!) because I would never get around to readng the rest of the newspaper and it was just a rediculous waste of paper when I was only buying it for one page!
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April 7th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I love puzzles because I think they’re a great way to pass time especially on plane rides. Puzzles also remind me of my childhood since I was an only child, I used to play games by myself, so I read a lot and played a stuff like the “spot the differences between these two pictures” and word search. Do you remember Highlights? They had THE BEST word searches and picture puzzles. Too bad I only see them in the dentists office :( My boyfriend and I recently got a real puzzle puzzle and are piecing it together. It’s a great way to spend time with someone:)
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April 7th, 2009 at 4:27 am
to be honest i love puzzles involving dissecting people’s personalities. ones where you try to figure a person out form little details
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April 7th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I used to do puzzles with my mom all the time when I was younger. Fun memories =)
I kick it old school when it comes to my favorite puzzles: Jigsaw puzzles are still my fav <3
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April 7th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Word search and jigsaw puzzles are actually two of my most favorite things in life, because of the time I spend with my family and, of course, the fun! :D My mother and I have a tradition where we buy jigsaw puzzles and word search books around Christmastime and complete them together. Honestly, I look forward to Christmas because of the puzzles, not the presents! I’ve always loved puzzles, but I especially treasure the time my mom and I spend together. :)
Puzzles also remind me of the late night / early morning I spent waiting for the birth of my niece last July. I wasn’t very familiar with my sister’s in-laws, so we mostly suffered long bouts of awkward silence. Then someone mentioned that they brought a puzzle with them. We ended up using it to pass the time and worked on it until we learned my niece was born. I’ll always associate puzzles with togetherness and, of course, my sweetheart of a niece! <3
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April 7th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I LOVE Sudoku. I think it’s really fun, and I’ve gotten pretty good at it from doing it so much. Also, I love to get other people addicted to it. It’s funny to see them go from not understanding it at all to playing nonstop!
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April 7th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I love love love puzzles. My overall favorite one though has to be sudoku. I love it because everyday my boyfriend and I pull out our sudoku book and work on one together. Most of the time we mess up our numbers and we tend to argue where things go, but all together it helps us grow because we are able to have a good time and just have fun with it.
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April 8th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I love all of them except sudoku (don’t even know why). I feel so smart when i figure out them by myself. It’s the best feeling ever
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April 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I’m obsessed with Sudoku. I used to love to site in the law school lobby and do one between classes. Much more fun than my homework!
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April 8th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I love puzzles because solving them feels so good!
But sometimes they’re really frustrating and I spend tons of time on them… haha :]
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April 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
The Jumble!! I can do a Jumble in about 30 seconds flat. My mind is constantly scrambling and unscrambling words everywhere I go. I love to see how many words I can make from one word, like the game Text Twist. But The Jumble is my all-time fave…my mom and I started doing them together when I was little, and now that she is gone, doing them gives me a sense of comfort and a sweet, happy memory of her. On my birthday last year, I found a very old, yellowed piece of newspaper lying in front of our front porch – it was the page with The Jumble on it. I felt like she was sending me a birthday gift from beyond. <3
Her fave was cryptograms, though I don’t always have the patience for them. And her mom, my 93-year-old grandmother, has been obsessed with word searches for the last several years and says they help keep her sharp. I guess we’re 3 generations of puzzlers.
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April 8th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
they are EXCELLENT for passing time!!
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April 8th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Hmm… my favorite puzzles are a tie between the word searches and those picture puzzles where you have to find certain objects. I loved Where’s Waldo as a kid!
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
puzzles keep my brain in check. they challenge one to use logic to solve them in a world where logic can seem to come few and far between! i have always loved crosswords – a true testament to my knowledge of pop culture (or lack of it)!
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I like puzzles in the middle of video games. lol Like the puzzles you have to figure out in order to get items or unlock doors. ;)
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
My favourite kinds of puzzles are sudoku – they are simple enough to solve with ease, yet depending on their level of difficulty they can be quite challenging!
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April 8th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Puzzles are pretty awesome especially in electronic forms. I just bought Professor Layton and the Curious Village. You have to travel around town to solve a crime but in order to get information from the village people you need to solve a variety of puzzles which range in a variety of levels. It’s very cute but the brainteasers can be very tough at times.
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April 9th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I love the challenge of puzzles, and how they keep my mind occupied when I’m stressed. My favorites are Sudoku and Crosswords
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I love sudoku because of the maths geek in me. Numbers are love <3
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April 10th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
When I was little, my mother worked full time so I would stay with my grandmother every day after school. I would often sleepover because my grandma would spoil me with chocolate milk, lots of treats and staying up late to watch tv!
Whenever we went out, her fondness for crosswords traveled with us; at the doctor, shopping, DMV, even at the flower shop that she owned, she always has a huge book of word searches. Sometimes we’d each pick a page and race to see who got all the words on their page first.
It was a lot of fun, and we’d stay up until midnight flopped on her quilted bed duking it out- even though English was not her first language, she had a SHARP eye! Anyway, I love puzzles and word searches so much now because of all the quality time I got to spend with my grandmother. It was something that brought us closer and hopefully made me a little smarter, ha!
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April 10th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I love crosswords and word search! I’ve never like sudoku much… but my boyfriend adores it.
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April 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I love puzzles; they keep my brain challenged and alert! My favourite kinds are word puzzles such as searches and crosswords!
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April 11th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I love roundups! Those are the best! On tuesday I will travel from Sweden to Netherlands so I just filled upp my bag with lots of puzzels :) I wish i had time to order one of those Pocket Posh Puzzles too! They seems great! :) And thanks for a wonderful blog!
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April 11th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I love puzzles because they are gym for our minds!!! Our intelect needs to keep fit too!! I think it may seem silly when you are young, but once you get older, you will be thankful to have excercized your brains all your live long =) I love my iphone sudoku game, and I play it every time I’m this close to get bored!!!
Love,
Laura (from Argentina)
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April 11th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I love puzzles because they help me think in new ways and are an entertaining challenge
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April 12th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
sudoku are my favorite.puzzles are essential to life because nothing is worst than idley wasting time. thier pocket size and keep you thinking
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April 12th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I am a puzzle addict! I love word finder games or the Star game (the one with letters and you spell words by connecting letters in different patterns). And crosswords that aren’t too hard are great too!
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April 13th, 2009 at 3:21 am
I adore puzzles because my train trip everyday to work is 1hr and 20mins so I always need to keep myself occupied! Not to mention I love the feeling of completing a difficult puzzle. It may sound silly but it just gives me some self-satisfaction to know I was able to finish something rather than give up.
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May 5th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I love doing puzzles, it makes me feel far less guilty when i’m watching telly and doing puzzles because then i’m really doing brain exercises!
I just bought my first of these beautiful puzzle books and i’m loving it!
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