Puzzling On

Anyone who knows me well will tell you without hesitation that I’m a puzzle freak. My boyfriend sighs when he sees me walk in the door with a new book of logic problems; it means he won’t be able to talk to me for at least a couple of days. And it’s not just logic problems, either: I love sudokus, crosswords and cryptograms with equal abandon.

I haven’t tried puzzle wizard Alan Stillson’s Sudokugrams yet (co-authored with Frank Longo), but I can’t wait to test my skills on these inventive little brain-twisters. Sudokugram squares look like regular sudoku squares, but with letters instead of numbers; your task is to fill in missing letters using the letter pool. Each letter gets used only once, and by the time the puzzle is filled out, you should be able to anagram/unscramble a recognizable English word from each row, column and section.

Stillson will be at the Glendale Barnes & Noble, 960 South Colorado Boulevard, tonight at 7 p.m.; he’ll give a free autographed book to the best solver. Visit www.stillsonworks.com for sample puzzles and information on other Stillson books; call Barnes & Noble at 303-691-2998.
Mon., July 7, 7 p.m., 2008