Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar 2011

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Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar 2011
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  1. Calendar: 320 pages: 1 item
  2. Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 2010-06-15
  3. Author: Fred Piscop
  4. ISBN: 0761156755
  5. Sales Rank in Books: #807702

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Crossword with your morning joe? An energizing mental pick-me-up, each of the puzzles in this calendar is challenging enough to be sanctioned by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society, yet is designed to be solvable in just ten minutes. Fred Piscop, a Mensa member and veteran crossword writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post, knows how to craft puzzles with the perfect balance of toughness, solvability, and sheer addictive appeal. It's the perfect start to the crossword lover's day, all year long.

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Average Customer Review
4.5 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Crosswords offer good challenge, but are a little too repetitious., January 21, 2011
Scott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar 2011 (Calendar)
I like this calendar alright - it gets the job done (which is to say, it tells me the date with as much accuracy as I have memory to tear pages off). However, I was disappointed with the quality of the crosswords. perhaps I am just too used to getting my butt kicked by the NY Times puzzle, but it seems like this calendar reuses clues with a surprising amount of frequency. For example (Spoiler alert for you crossword solvers out there), Shoot-em-up (solution OATER) was a clue two days in a row, and ____ Plaines, IL (Solution DES) was as well. I don't mind some repetition, and I understand that remembering clues and types of words over time is the way to get good at crosswords, but I wish they spaced out the repetition a little bit more. It felt like cheating (but only a little less than actual cheating, which I sometimes succumb to). I sort of wish I had picked up the NYtimes page a day. At least then when I cheat at crosswords, I will feel a little more justified. (note - I...Read more


5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, March 29, 2011
kappafino - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar 2011 (Calendar)
I love the little puzzles in this calendar! I enjoy the humorous themes and I learn a lot of fun trivia. I keep it in the bathroom and now I can't live without it, if you know what I mean. . . The weekday puzzles take me ten minutes or less, and the weekend solvers are a little more challenging, which I like, too.


4.0 out of 5 stars quick, well-constructed puzzles, March 11, 2011
not-just-yeti (Blacksburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar 2011 (Calendar)
Buying a collection of puzzles by an unknown author/editor, I was concerned that (a) they'd use obscure words that one never hears/reads/thinks about in real life; (b) they'd be way too hard, or (c) they'd be easy and unsatisfying -- more busy-work than fun. Happily, none of these are the problem. The puzzles are well-constructed, and are on the quick&easy side -- most are a Monday-to-Tuesday on the nyTimes scale. So about a third of the words get filled in right away if there is a cross-letter, and a third of the words are filled in on a second pass once a few more letters are there. However, Fred Piscop's clues are definitely fun, so that even the words you get immediately are still satisfying (as opposed to busy-work). Some typical examples:
_ _ _ _ : A bad way to run;
_ _ _ _ _ : Sparing of words;
_ P _ E : Pointless olympic sport?
Have answers of [mini-spoiler:] "amok", "terse", and "epee" resp.

Some weekend puzzles are by people other...Read more

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