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Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
List Price: $17.95
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The millions of New Yorker cartoon fans (and puzzlers, too) will exult in this ingenious, first-ever collection of puzzles and games that feature the magazine’s cartoons as clues.

Designed to offer a challenge to puzzlers of all levels, this collection of 100 crosswords, acrostics, caption scrambles, observation puzzles, and more is absolutely unique—it’s the first-ever puzzle collection to feature New Yorker cartoons. Presented in an extremely user-friendly oversized spiral format, the book provides hours and hours of interactive entertainment— just bring your own pencil and brain power!

The puzzles themselves are ingenious—new and different kinds of brain-teasers that use the cartoons of The New Yorker in a fresh way, encouraging the agile reader to think like a New Yorker cartoonist. The introduction is a conversation between two masters: the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and the puzzle editor of The New York Times, and it sheds fascinating light on the connection between cartoons and puzzles.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.73
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great fun even if you aren't a 'puzzle' person!!
Comment: I am the puzzle person in our house but this book has not left the bedside of my husband who does several puzzles each night. We bought a second copy for a friend already and may buy more. It is creative due to the cartoon element but offeres varying levels of puzzle challenge. Anyone who loves New Yorker cartoons will enjoy this new combination of "Cartoon Puzzles"! It is tons of fun!!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Fun, Even If A Bit Bulky
Comment: The uniqueness of this puzzle book is that its puzzles are mostly gleaned from the annals of the New Yorker's cartoon library, and that makes it a joy to tackle. The only downside to this book -- and it isn't a huge one -- is the size of the book. With over-sized pages and spiral binding, and the fact that many of the puzzles cover two pages, you often must have the book all the way open (i.e., lying flat) to work the puzzles, and that can be a bit cumbersome, depending on where you are as you work the puzzles. Speaking of spiral binding, this is one of the recent spate of puzzle books that is spiral-bound, a wonderful addition to the puzzle-book genre -- even if it does add the cost of the buyer generally getting fewer puzzles per book than has been seen in the past for the same price. Personally, that's a price I'm willing to pay -- it's that great a feature. In fact, I won't even buy a puzzle book any more that isn't spiral-bound. All-in-all, this collection of puzzles is a lot of fun -- in more ways than one!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Mental Stroll for cartoon fans & amateur puzzlers
Comment: I love word puzzles though I'm not a serious puzzler - I do a few crosswords a week and have owned maybe three puzzle books as an adult. I am, however, a big cartoon fan, though honestly I've been more FoxTrot & Calvin than I am the New Yorker. So, my favorite puzzles are cryptograms with cartoons. Don't find them much - but when I searched specifically for this, I discovered this book.

I enjoy the New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games (and have purchased a second copy for a friend) because the combo of puzzle and cartoon has proven very relaxing - I involve myself in a semi-hard puzzle, but then find a laugh waiting for me once it's solved. New Yorker cartoons do typically contain some of the least expected twists, and I found that here.

However, I don't think a serious puzzle person would be happy with this book, unless he were interested in the New Yorker cartoons. I say this only because the puzzles range from easy to medium difficulty for an adult. (A teen or younger might enjoy more of a challenge.) I still recommend this though - for a more relaxed puzzler like myself it's a good mental stroll.

Though not typically a history buff, I found it a pleasant surprise that the editors included the history of New Yorker cartoons, and with it a history of the U.S, WITHIN quite a few puzzles. Several times you are asked to place the puzzles in the correct time period (and the New Yorker puzzles go back at least to the 1920's) or even with the correct author/cartoonist. The puzzles are just challenging enough to give me a think (similar to a midweek newspaper crossword perhaps) but not overly hard. And there is an ABUNDANCE OF GREAT CARTOONS - usually five or six to each puzzle and often grouped in interesting ways/topics.

But what of those cryptograms? Good news is that they were well done, and with increasing difficulty; Disappointment is that there were only three pages of cryptograms while other types of puzzles were represented more. It does seem that the editors missed out on utilizing the perfect collaboration of crypts and cartoons.

I give it a 4 - enjoyed the cartoon aspect, most puzzles fun but some just too easy for an adult. Still worth the stroll.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I've never had a better book of puzzles!
Comment: A wide variety of different styles of puzzles, each with the payoff of several very good New Yorker cartoons, makes this book a blast to play with. I work hard to limit myself to only a couple of puzzles each time I pick it up (and so far I've refused to share the book with the gift-giver.) I've enjoyed it so much, I'm buying a copy for my mother for her birthday.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Brand New
Comment: The item arrived in a timely manner and it was the exact item I ordered.

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