Puzzle Compendium Magazine

On our recent caravan holiday Claire and I developed a passion for crosswords, and Puzzle Compendium was the source of this. This mag is basically a mixture of puzzles such as crosswords and wordsearches. It is printed on crass, cheap paper which gives it the feel of an old child's colouring book, and that annoys me. The amount of puzzles it contains means you're going to be using it for some time, so why print it like a throwaway item? The puzzles themselves are a good level of difficulty. Of course, everything's relative but between the two of us my wife and I can complete almost all of each crossword. Aren't crosswords great? The way that ...  Read the complete review

***Background*** This monthly puzzle book is part of the Puzzler group who also provide us with a selection of other mixed puzzle books as well as books with the same types in such as all crosswords or all Word Searches. The Puzzler has been around for many years now and I remember my dad always buying it on a regular basis as it had a wide variety of puzzles in it and he didn't get bored doing the same thing all the time. ***What's In It?*** There are lots of different puzzles and in the contents page inside the book you can see that it describes each type in detail. Crosswords - there are 5 different types of ...  Read the complete review