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How I Puzzle Myself

hereandthere @hereandthere (45628) • Philippines 6 Mar 17

I have always loved word games in magazines and newspapers, like crossword puzzles, word searches, guessing missing letters, anagrams or jumbled letters, matching words, etc. In fact, I would start answering them without reading...

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A Puzzling Hobby

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 24 Jan 16

One of my hobbies - well, it’s more of a pastime than a hobby, really - is doing crossword puzzles. I buy a newspaper every day mainly because it has a regular puzzle page with two kinds of crossword puzzles which are to my...

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Doing crossword puzzles to keep your mind active

megamatt @megamatt (14290) • United States 27 Aug 11

Every Sunday, the newspaper has a crossword puzzle and I find myself doing it. It is a way to keep us thinking. As it turns out, doing crossword puzzles are a way to keep your mind sharp as we get older. I find that its a rather...

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keeping the mind sharp

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Do you think there are too many brain-training games these days?

Marcola @Marcola (2774) • United States 13 Jan 09

You know, like sudoku puzzles, crossword puzzles and so forth? I know there's enough of them on DS. I can't imagine somehow going out of their way to buy one of those games the day they're released.

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Do you do Crossword Puzzles?

thedaddym @thedaddym (1731) • United States 4 Dec 08

Do you like to do Crossword puzzles? I like doing them but I never have the time. If I am going to be on an airplane or a train I will get a crossword book. So how about you, do you do the ones in the paper or by a book to do...

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Are you a puzzle person?

makelifehappy @vera5d (4004) • United States 26 Mar 08

I love puzzles, all kinds. Whether they're the typical photo puzzles with 500, 1000, or even the little 50 piece puzzles my son has, I love doing them. I think I can blame my grandma for this, she was a puzzle fanatic and usually...

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What are your hobbies?

chrislotz @chrislotz (8136) • Canada 4 Dec 07

What hobbies do you enjoy. I love to knit and I knit a few different things. I like to knit scarves, with that new wool out that is fuzzy. I like to knit dish clothes, with cotton wool. I like to knit slippers, with phintex wool....

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crazy_ol_lady @crazy_ol_lady (1014) • United States 1 Oct 07

How do you feel about crossword puzzles? Do you like working on them? Do you enjoy learning from them? Or do you just think they are a pain to work on and ignore them? I think crossword puzzles are fun to do even if I have a...

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In crossword puzzles, do you check your answers the next day?

mari_skye @mari_skye (1637) • Philippines 6 Jun 07

I got this hobby/trait from my father. He likes doing the crossword puzzles in the daily newspaper. So now I also cannot help but turn my attention first to the puzzle before I even read the contents of the paper, LOL! So I was...

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Crossword puzzles OR Search-a-Words

Bee1955 @Bee1955 (3882) • United States 9 May 07

My mother-in-law and I always laugh at each other - I am a crossword puzzle nut and she loves to circle in the word search books. Which do you find more appealing?

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My own free Kakuro / Sudoku Crossword Generator..

HeartWalker @HeartWalker (121) • India 26 Feb 07

Where can I get any program for solving Sudoku puzzles, or kakuro puzzles ? Is there any site or forum, where I can submit sudokus and kakuros and software crossword puzzles and quiz questions and get the answers for...

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do u enjoy crossword puzzles???????????

jhallii @jhallii (155) • India 22 Feb 07

crossword puzzles.....its mainly get published in sunday papers and some magazines...........many are fond of it.some wait for it...are u also very fond of crossword puzzles???????are ualways able to solve all?????????

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ny times crosswords...

jesusica @jesusica (38) • United States 11 Jan 07

i just watched the movie "wordplay" about will shortz, the new york times crossword puzzle editor. i love crossword puzzles. i find the ones in books you buy too easy and the ones in the newspaper. any suggestions?

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