The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 6: 200 Solvable Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times [Paperback]

Will Shortz (Editor)

Book Description

Series: New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus | Publication Date: July 22, 2008

Features:

* 200 Monday and Tuesday puzzles, the easiest crosswords published in The New York Times
* Author bylines that allow fans to get to know today's top contributors
* The New York Times and Will Shortz--the #1 name in crosswords.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Will Shortz has been the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has edited countless books of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, KenKen, and all manner of brain-busters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (July 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312382871
• ISBN-13: 978-0312382872
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Crosswords

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NY Easy is my Medium, January 17, 2009

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M. Field (New Port Richey, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 6: 200 Solvable Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times (Paperback)

I bought this book for my mom who was having a hard time finding "medium" difficulty crossword puzzle books. All the easy books are too easy and the hard too hard. Some of those combination books that went from easy to hard seem to skip the medium difficulty. So I thought I'd give the NY Times Easy books a try. I figured maybe that would be what we considered to be medium. Sure enough! She loves it! She, my sister, and I absolutely love this book. We bought other volumes and found them to be just the right amount of difficult as well. If you consider the NY Times puzzles way over your head but find the grocery store books too easy, this one will suit you perfectly.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners, January 1, 2012

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Alexa Offenhauer (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 6: 200 Solvable Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times (Paperback)

I really, really wanted to get better at crossword puzzles, and I love Will Shortz. This was the best way for me to do it, so I didn't have to wade through really tough ones in a "best of" book. I'd never done any crosswords regularly before I bought this book, and at first I could only get maybe four or five answers per puzzle. I cheated a bit--sometimes by googling an answer, sometimes just by looking in the back of the book--and I loved that because it helped me learn the psychology of the puzzles. Slowly but surely, I got better, and ended up finishing almost all the puzzles in the book, many without cheating at all.

Now I can sometimes even do the medium puzzles in the NY Times...

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy, as advertised, perhaps too much so, December 14, 2011

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Eric Kalman "Eric the K" (Woodland Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 6: 200 Solvable Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times (Paperback)

I bought this book for my wife who enjoys the New York Times daily crossword puzzles but who finds any puzzle beyond Wednesdays' a little too challenging to be fun. For those not familiar with the NY Times pattern, puzzles start out being very easy on Mondays, growing increasingly harder throughout the week with Saturday's being the most difficult. Sunday's is considered to be about the same as a Thursday-level puzzle. As stated, the puzzles in this book are taken from the Monday and Tuesday editions of the paper. All that said, about half-way through the book, my wife was saying that these were too easy. I guess that the next book we get will be made entirely of Wednesday puzzles.

So, four stars for being everything it says it claims to be; minus one for being less than entirely satisfying.