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The New York Times Crossword Puzzles 2008 Calendar: A 366 Day Calendar publisher: Pomegranate Communications released: 2007-06 ISBN: 0764938452 $12.99

I love this product and buy it every year and get some for xmas presents for friends. It is daily fun that I look forward to and challenges you more and more as the days move to Sat/Sun. Highly recommended!

These are excellent puzzles ready to be worked on a daily basis. I've given this calendar to my father in law for many years, and he loves having it around. He likes to work them while he has his morning coffee.

This page-a-day desk calendar features 313 consecutive New York Times daily crossword puzzles originally printed between May 11, 2004 and June 1, 2005. This series aligns with the normal Monday to Saturday progression of difficulty. Saturdays and Sundays share a calendar page and feature a Saturday puzzle.
The puzzle grids measure about 3" x 3" on the page, while each full page measures about 6" x 5". The lower right corner even features a few square inches of blank space for use as an actual desk calendar. The tear-off pages offer portability - I often keep a few pages in my planner for use in waiting rooms, train rides, etc.
The 2007 calendar merited criticism for reusing the same puzzles as the 2006 one, but this 2008 edition clearly states on the box that these are not those same puzzles.

(320 pages)

The Original Sudoku Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 publisher: Workman Publishing Company released: 2007-06-30 ISBN: 0761145869 $12.99

A bestseller in its first two seasons, The Original Sudoku Calendar is now in full color for an energetic and eye-popping new look. These puzzles look amazing—and they're as addictive as ever. Created by Nikoli, the Japanese publisher that launched the international Sudoku craze, they are totally handmade, giving them an elegance, symmetry, and sense of interaction that computer generated puzzles just can't match. You're pitting your mind against the mind of the master, every day. The puzzles begin very easy each weekend and grow more difficult over the week. Gokouun o inorimasu! (Good luck!)

Great puzzles. Paper too glossy. Very hard
to write on or erase and you need to both doing Sudoku.

I liked the 2007 calendar because the pages were white. The colored pages for 2008 are very attractive but it is difficult to see the numbers I write in on some of the colors. Please, back to white in 2009 or I will stop ordering it.

I was looking forward to another year with the Sudoku page-a-day calendar. While I do like the new formate for the puzzle I am disappointed in the calendar lay out. I wanted a calendar like the one last year that could also be used to mark appointments for the current day or in weeks to come. This calendar format has each page separate, no space for writing things to remember or the ability to flip ahead in the year to mark notations, so this will just be a puzzle calendar and not my daily working calendar.

I ordered this because I loved their 2007 calendar so much. I bought about 8 of the 2007 one and went through them all by year's end. I absolutely hate the new format. Rather than glue them all together via adhesive at the top, they now put loose sheets into a flimsy plastic frame, so you can't carry it around in your purse. It's also considerably larger, about 30% larger than the 2007. The paper has changed too. Now it's a plastic material that is extremely difficult to write on. The color isn't particularly helpful either. Sat and Sun are now on one page together and quite small (hate that as well). Lastly, the ratings are way off. The hards are usually easier than the mediums and both are more hard than the hards from last year. Very sorry I bought it. I used to spend a lot of time doing sudoku--not anymore. I guess if you need to get weaned off sudoku, buy this--you'll hate it so much, you'll stop.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles 2008 Calendar publisher: Pomegranate Communications released: 2007-06 ISBN: 0764938479 $11.69

This desk calendar features 53 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles. The puzzle grids measure about 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" on the left hand page. Puzzle titles and authors are listed but the original publication dates are not (all date from the Will Shortz era). The Across clues appear on the left page and the Downs spill onto the right page. The seven days of the week are listed on the far right side each with six lightly-ruled lines of blank space for daily notes. In the back are the crossword answers, an extensive list of international holidays and a two-page 2009 calendar. The book is spiral bound with sturdy cardboard front and back covers and thick pages.

(365 pages)

Battleship Puzzle-a-Day 2008 Box Calendar by: Battleship publisher: Sellers Publishing released: 2007-08-01 ISBN: 1416214771 $11.99

If you like Sudoku youll love Battleship! Here is a killer collection of puzzles from the Battleship desk calendar. These puzzles are a single player version of the popular childrens game. Using logic and requiring no math, these addictive puzzles provide endless fun and intellectual entertainment for puzzle fans of all skills and ages.

This is a standard page-a-day calendar, but with a battleship puzzle on the front page and the solution on the flip-side. The difficulty levels are marked, but are not in sequential order. The paper is thick and bright white (not newsprint), so feel free to use mechanical pencils and erase away without concern. For the price, it's still a lot of these type puzzles even if you don't use it as a calendar! Overall, a great buy.

(320 pages)

Tangram Magnetic Puzzle-a-Day: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar by: Jeff Cole publisher: Accord, a division of Andrews McMeel Publishing released: 2007-09-01 ISBN: 1579393438 $14.99

I purchased this puzzle to do each morning when I got into work. This plus coffee really jumpstarts my brain. This is despite of the fact the daily puzzle does get easier as you get more experience visualizing the pieces, but its still a welcome challenge early in the day.

I highly recommend it!

This year I ordered 3 of the tangram puzzle calendars to give out as gifts. I had one last year, and the item itself is really a lot of fun and I highly recommend it.

The calendars come in a cardboard frame that holds the individual daily puzzle pages.

Unfortunately, when I opened the box, I found that two of the three calendars' cardboard frames were quite damaged. There was clearly insufficient packaging materials inside the box. I can't blame the post office because there wasn't any damage to the shipping boxes. They calendars had just banged around inside the box from amazon on their travels.

I imagine that amazon might have helped me out with had I chosen to return the items, but I had selected them as gifts and didn't have time to go through the hassles of returning them.

In short - it is a great item, but amazon did not ship it well.

A long time before the 15-Puzzle,the Rubik's Cube or any other puzzle you've seen before,there was the Tangram Puzzle to challenge the millions.The Tangram Puzzle is beautifully described in all its different forms along with its history,and along with nearly 1800 puzzles for you to enjoy,in "the Tangram Book" by Jerry Slocum and Jacob Botermans.It is,without any doubt,the difinitive book on this puzzle.I wrote a review on it on January 6,2004.
Although I have many different Tangram Puzzles,and there have been many hundreds of them sold over the years,I was very impressed with this one and just had to add it to my collection.
This one is one of those "boxed" calendars that appear late in the year for the Christmas gift season.
There was a lot of creative imagination used to take this ancient puzzle and adapt it to a calendar.Unlike most calendars of this type,where the pages are torn off and thrown away;here the pages are all separate.The Tangram pieces themselves,are made of a rubber like material with magnetic backing. There is a magnetic board included and you put a page(puzzle) on it and the pieces are held in place.This would be very useful if doing the puzzles in a car,for example;or even while horseback riding,it that's your thing.
Each day has a separate page and the puzzle is the same size as the Tangram pieces,;this is very convenient.The same page shows the solution of the previous days puzzle;also very convenient.Thursdays give you an extra challenge with 4 puzzles instead of one,along with the solutions of the previous Thursday's puzzle.These Thursday puzzles are much smaller and I found it simpler to use a pencil to solve them.
These puzzles come in an ingenious ,hinged, substantial box,with an opening to keep the Tangram pieces.It's easy to keep the puzzles in order and you simply put them back to solve again.This is certainly not an item you will discard once you finish the puzzle.In all there are over 500 puzzles to solve.
This imaginative packageing makes it simple to create a multi- person game. If you have a couple of other sets of Tangram pieces ( you can even make cardboard ones),you can pass around the pages and have contests to see who can solve them the fastest.
This is a wonderfully packaged game ,that everyone in the family from young to the older to enjoy alone or with others.

Scrabble Puzzle-a-day 2008 Calendar by: National Scrabble Association publisher: Hasbro released: 2207 ISBN: 0760794065

2008 Box Calendar