A Year of Puzzles: 365 Large Print Brain Games for Adults and Seniors - One Puzzle for Every Day of the Year: Sudoku, Word Search, Cryptograms, Word Fit and Math Squares

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One puzzle a day, for a whole year.Inside this large print collection you will find 365 puzzles, one for every day of the year, arranged in 52 weeks that run Monday to Sunday, plus a final puzzle to close the year. Start on any date you like. The book is not tied to any particular year, so it keeps.Five kinds of puzzle, taking turnsSudoku, word search, cryptograms, word fit and math squares alternate day by day, and the same kind never falls on two days in a row. There is always something different waiting tomorrow.The week has a shapeLike the crossword in a good newspaper, the difficulty rises as the week goes on. Monday is kind. Saturday is not. Sunday is bigger rather than harder, a longer sit-down with a larger grid and more to find.Difficulty that was measured, not guessedA sudoku here is not rated by how many numbers are missing. Every puzzle was re-solved after it was created and rated by the solving techniques it genuinely requires, from single candidates through locked candidates, pairs and triples, and beyond. The five dots printed on each page report that measurement, so the level you see is the level you get.One solution, provenEvery sudoku, math square and word fit was run through an exhaustive solver that searches for a second answer. If it found one, the puzzle was thrown away. In every word search, each hidden word was checked to appear exactly once in all eight directions, so no accidental second placement can send you down the wrong path.Nothing repeatsAll 365 puzzles were checked against one another. No sudoku grid, no word search theme, no quotation and no word fit puzzle appears twice anywhere in this volume.Built for comfortable readingEvery grid, word list, instruction and solution is set in large print at 16 point or larger, on generous 8.5 x 11 inch pages with room to write. Complete solutions are grouped by puzzle type at the back and listed by puzzle number.Made to be givenA gift page at the front carries space for the name of the reader, the name of the giver, and the date the first puzzle was solved.Who it is forAdults and seniors who want a daily habit rather than a single afternoon. Anyone who finds standard puzzle books too small to read comfortably. Solvers who want variety instead of three hundred pages of the same grid. And anyone looking for a substantial, long-lasting gift for a parent, a grandparent, a friend or a partner.What is inside110 sudoku puzzles across five measured difficulty levels85 themed word searches60 cryptograms drawn from classic quotations and proverbs55 word fit puzzles55 math squaresComplete solutions for all 365 puzzlesA year of quiet, absorbing work for anyone who likes to sit down with a pencil. Read more