The New York Times Ultimate Crossword Omnibus: 1,001 Puzzles from The New York Times Author: The New York Times | Language: English | ISBN:
0312316224 | Format: EPUB
The New York Times Ultimate Crossword Omnibus: 1,001 Puzzles from The New York Times Description
About the Author
Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.
- Series: Ultimate Crosswords Omnibus
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (May 16, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312316224
- ISBN-13: 978-0312316228
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I was buying the NY Times everyday just so I could do the puzzle at lunchtime at the office. In the area I lived, it was $1 a day! Do the math. This collection saved me a bundle.
As a habitual crossword puzzler, I switched from habitually buying the paper each morning to habitually zeroxing the next puzzle in this book. I found it much easier to copy the puzzles than to hold this rather bulky tome. And copying allowed me to enlarge them to a full letter size page if I so desired (though it was not necessary -- the puzzles are their normal dimensions and fit two-to-a-page in this collection).
Working off a copy also discouraged me from turning the page and starting a different puzzle when I got stuck on the really tough Friday and Saturday puzzles.
If you're a habitual puzzler, this book is a god send.
Bottom line(s): The price is obviously fantastic. The collection is obviously HUGE! The puzzles are just like the daily paper -- from Monday-easy to Saturday-nearly-impossible. I never ran into a puzzle I remembered doing in the paper.
No cons, but some advice... It's not the kind of book you'll want to carry around since it is, of course, large. And if you're not a habitual puzzler, it might end up on a shelf unused since it is a daunting number of puzzles.
Also, in case you're a novice puzzler, the NY Times puzzles can get pretty hard. If you're used to clues like, "Wheel OF Fortune's Sajak" for p-a-t, you're in for a challenge. Instead, you'll be getting "foie gras" for p-a-t-e. (Frequent foreign language clues, people you've never heard of, obscure island names, etc.)
The good news is that your vocabulary will expand and you'll learn a lot more than you would from the TV guide puzzle.
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