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Giant Jumble: Another Big Book for Big Fans (Jumbles)

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I'm a huge Jumble fan and I've been doing the Jumble in the daily newspaper for years.

This book is lots of fun for Jumble lovers young and old.

This is the second 500 puzzle book I have purchased. I use it every morning with my mom who is 93. We do the puzzles together and sometimes she does them by herself. It is great to keep her mind active. The large print is wonderful. We have had lots of fun over the years doing these puzzles in the daily newspaper. Now the book is terrific! We can do more than one each day and have the answers if we mess up!

My husband and I have done 1-2 Jumble puzzles every morning of our 15 year marriage. Some are easy, some are so hard that we spend the morning thinking and then going back to it. We have differing ways of approaching it - I must be looking at the letters to make a word, he keeps the letters in his head while solving it. It must reflect how our brains solve problems - he's an engineer, I'm a writer. The picture puzzles are usually clever and amusing. I like this much better than crossword puzzles - I'm not sure why because I like words. These are mostly words we all recognize, you wouldn't think they would be so hard. Keeps the synapses snapping!

I was thrilled with this book. It was bought as a gift and was a great choice! The book has over 500 full page jumbles, each 81/2 by 11 inches in size. Worth every penny.

I love it. I got it for my dad after he had a stroke. He had always been a huge fan of the Jumble - did it every day in the paper. After his stroke, he was pretty wiped out and couldn't see very well. This was perfect. It was nice to come into the hospital every day and see another jumble filled out or partially filled out. The print is so big - one jumble per page - that it made it a lot easier on him. And of course the puzzles are really cool.

I use these Jumbles in my English classroom on a daily basis, both as extra credit and team-building exercises. The students love the challenge of solving these puzzles, and the best part: they don't realize they are building vocabulary.

My Mom loves Jumble, and this book delivers the goods! Great deal compared to the smaller Jumble books. It could use some more of the challenge puzzles at the end though.

This is a wonderful collection of Jumble puzzles. They're the same stuff as the ones I get in the paper everyday by Henri Arnold, Bob Lee, and Mike Argirion.

There are 511 puzzles. The first 480 puzzles have four scrambled words and one "solution phrase" each, plus the usual illustration. The last 41 puzzles have two extra unscrambled words each.

There is one puzzle per page, so the puzzle is blown up to a huge size, which makes it easy to see and solve. There is a lot of white space around each puzzle, which helps because you can use it to write on as you try to figure out the correct letter combinations.

AND... the answers are all in the back, so you can check your answers. Or take a premature peek.

This book is huge, like a phone book, but probably not as heavy. Perfect for Jumble addicts.

The highest price Amazon is asking for is $13.57 (with super saver shipping), which is a bargain, considering the list price is $19.95.

Other books just like this include:

*Colossal Jumble
*Generous Jumble

And, I'm pretty sure,

*Jumbo Jumble: A Big Book for Big Fans

Enjoy!

Am a great fan of these books. They give you the most jumbles for your money and keeps you entertained. Working these puzzles helps me keep my mind sharp. If you don't use it you lose it.

It a nice collection of average difficulty Jumbles. No problems. The format is quite large. It is about the size of a phone book, which may make portability an issue. I think they make it this large to make it easier to read for those who are visually challenged. My wife loves to do these in the newspaper, so she was happy to get a collection to play with when the paper dropped its daily Jumble puzzle.