This is a very brief post just thought you might want to see this amazing blog, the NY Times Crossword Drawings. It features absolutely magnificent photos of illustrated crossword puzzles. You should really check it out!

CrosScan puzzle combines features of crossword and word search puzzles, with the answers to crossword style clues to be found in a 15-square word search block. An average puzzle includes between 40 and 50 words.

Each puzzle has a theme, which is hidden through the use of many double meanings in the clues, and will gradually emerge as the puzzle is worked. Puns, humor, and red herring words which don’t fit the theme are included to add extra interest.

Puzzlelinks- blog thinks that this kind of puzzle is harder than a crossoword.

My second thought is that it seems like it’s possible to find the wrong answer.  I may get the wrong answer for the clue, but as long as I can find the right letters in the grid, I’ll never know it was a wrong answer.

Here is one you can challenge yourself with .

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.

Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.

So on that note quiz yourself to know what Halloween treat are you.

Although i missed the Thursday quiz in real time i still think it’s fair to give you the opportunity to try it. The Thursday quiz is an “is or isn’t” it game, your job is to determine whether each item from a list of twelve items is or isn’t an example of the week’s category.

Give it a try.

The solitaire version of Battleship was invented in Argentina in 1982 under the name Batalla Naval, with the first published puzzles appearing in 1982 in the Spanish magazine Humor & Juegos. Battleships was created by Jaime Poniachik, founder of Humor & Juegos, and Eduardo Abel Gimenez, Jorge Varlotta, and Daniel Samoilovich, who were editors of the magazine.

The Battleship puzzle (sometimes called Solitaire Battleships or Battleship Solitaire) is a logic puzzle based on the Battleship guessing game. It and its many variants often appear in puzzle contests, such as the WPC, and puzzle magazines, such as Games magazine.

The puzzle is played in a grid of squares in which ships of different sizes are hidden. Numbers alongside the grid indicate how many squares in a row or column are occupied by part of a ship.

Here you have a game of Battleship, enjoy.