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By kilax, January 21, 2008 5:48 am

What is the deal with crossword puzzles? As in, why am I so awful at them?

My parents gave me two crossword puzzle books for Christmas. I grabbed a pencil and opened one up Saturday night, expecting myself to be relaxed by the puzzle before I went to bed.

Nope.

I knew maybe… five of the answers off hand. I couldn’t decode a lot of the clues, and I found myself consulting the reference books in my house for the clues I did understand. You’re NOT supposed to look the answers up, right? It is supposed to be from memory?

Does this mean I have a bad vocabulary, that I don’t know very much, or that the clues are poorly written?

What is the trick behind these things? There has to be some strategy… like Sudoku…