Hobbies Crossword puzzles, and variations of them, are among the most popular. Anagrams is a word game that may be played by two or more people, but it is still a puzzle. Scrabble, a game sold in all stationery stores, is a delightful modification of Anagrams. Cryptograms, which appear frequently in magazines and newspapers, are still another kind of word puzzle that presents a problem in decoding.

Jigsaw Puzzles are maddening fun and can keep you entranced for hours trying to put a cut-up picture together. There are also what you might call three-dimensional Jigsaw Puzzles: cubes, balls, and other forms which may be broken and—possibly—put together again.

You can buy a couple of linked nails that you may or may not be able to take apart and put together again, and many other mechanical puzzles.

Many newspapers publish chess puzzles.

You can be delightfully trapped by mathematical puzzles. The most common form presents a completed problem in multiplication or long division, with a letter of the alphabet substituted for each numeral. When you solve the puzzle by replacing each letter with the correct number, the letters representing one to zero, placed in consecutive order, spell a word.

There are tantalizing Minute Mysteries, brief detective stories, complete—except for the solutions.




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December 4, 2008