Hobbies Any kind of puzzle is a challenge—often it is much more difficult than the work you do for a living and more fascinating. Batting away at a typewriter to produce what we hope is an informative book on hobbies is easy and moderately relaxing. Yet, when the Saturday Review arrives in the mail on Tuesday morning, we leave the typewriter for a one- or two-hour struggle with one of Doris Nash Wortman's Double-Crostics.

Solving one of these puzzles requires a large vocabulary, a broad knowledge of literature, history, sports, and music, more than a smattering of general information, and a reference library. There may come a time—a frustratingly disturbing time—when the solution seems impossible. How much simpler it would be to return to the typewriter where a problem can be readily solved by recourse to the dictionary or Roger's Thesaurus!

We find Double-Crostics the most intriguing of all puzzles. A book of them can keep us up more than half the night. There are, of course, many kinds of puzzles, something to tempt and then captivate any sort of temperament. The stationery stores are full of them.

You will find paperback puzzle books on the newsstands. These contain mostly Crossword Puzzles, but there are other brain-teasers in some of them.




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October 6, 2008