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.
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…
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.
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 :)
I LOVE learning new and sometimes useless trivia, and I’m addicted to crossword puzzles.
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.
I love doing crossword puzzles because it is like being on a mission….can’t quit until it is completed…..I love a chanllenge!!!!!!!
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.
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!!!!!
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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completing a puzzle is more satisfying than eating a large meal.
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.
I LOVE word scrambles and any type of word puzzle. I have a thing with letters!
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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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
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.
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.
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…
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?
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!!
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.
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.
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. =)
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.
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…
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!
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. :)
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
My favorite is still the good old jigsaw puzzle! After completing them I feel energized and accomplished!
I love all kinds of puzzles, crosswords are my favorite!
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!
My favourite puzzles are wordsearches. I love doing puzzles because they really do pass the time and they’re good for your brain :p
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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.
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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! :)