Smart Games Wizard Workout Word Games: Super-Challenging Wordplay, Strategy and Perception Puzzles : Spiral

Rating:
Summary: If you're a Smart Games fan...
Review: ...then you should buy this book! It has puzzles similar to those found in Smart Games Word Puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult. I really appreciated the spiral bound format, which makes it so much easier to do puzzles.

About the CD-Rom -- it contains puzzles that already appear on the Smart Games Word Puzzles CD, only less of them (this came straight from Smart Games Tech Support), so if you're looking for more games on CD-Rom, you won't find them here. But this would be a great way to introduce a fellow puzzle fan to the world of Smart Games!

Rating:
Summary: If you're a Smart Games fan...
Review: ...then you should buy this book! It has puzzles similar to those found in Smart Games Word Puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult. I really appreciated the spiral bound format, which makes it so much easier to do puzzles.

About the CD-Rom -- it contains puzzles that already appear on the Smart Games Word Puzzles CD, only less of them (this came straight from Smart Games Tech Support), so if you're looking for more games on CD-Rom, you won't find them here. But this would be a great way to introduce a fellow puzzle fan to the world of Smart Games!

Rating:
Summary: Brain workout
Review: In the introduction to this puzzle book, the editors of Smart Games, Inc. say that when it comes to your mental acuity, you must use it or lose it. This collection of word puzzles is intended to help you with your mental exercises. As a more difficult companion to the Mind Marathon volume, this Wizard Workout volume has four types of puzzles to solve:

- Scramblegrams, where you unscramble words in themed sets
- Word melt, which is a word ladder where you replace between one and six letters at a time to change from the starting word to the ending word. When you tackle the longer letter variants, you will find them fiendlishly difficult
- Word blocks, where you arrange two or three letter blocks to form words, using each block only once
- Word hunt, which is a word search grid where you locate themed words hidden in any direction in the grid, including in a snaking path

The puzzles range from easy to very difficult. There's not much variety here compared to other word puzzle books, though, so I give it only 3 stars. The book is spiral bound to lie flat while you solve. A CD ROM is included with bonus word puzzles to solve.

Eileen Rieback