CrosScan Puzzles

A Challenging New Dimension in Word Search

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Pub Date Jun 30 2011 | Archive Date Feb 13 2013

Description

CrosScan is a unique blend of word search and crossword. This concept begins with a word search block; then crossword-style clues take the place of a word list. The theme is hidden; it emerges as the puzzle is worked. It’s an IQ workout that stretches the mental muscles. Created by humans rather than by computer, each finely-crafted puzzle has about 40 words and enough leftover letters to form a quotation related to the theme. Clues are not too difficult but certainly not easy as puns and double meanings are used to obscure the theme.

CrosScan is a unique blend of word search and crossword. This concept begins with a word search block; then crossword-style clues take the place of a word list. The theme is hidden; it emerges as the...


Advance Praise

"I saw these interesting puzzles and thought I would try them out. They turned out to be very good, not just a neat idea. Crosswords are usually too hard or too easy for me, and word searches are always too easy. These crosscan puzzles turned out to be just right. . . . The clues and answers all turned out to be reasonable (unlike many crazy crosswords that I’ve tried to solve). Having tried many novel puzzles out and been mildly disappointed, I really appreciate finding this gem."

– Chris McMullen

"I have had the book of Crosscan puzzles for several weeks now, and I am rapidly becoming addicted to them! It’s such a different way of doing word searches, and it really makes you think. I hope they come out with another book in the near future."

– Anne M. Friedman

"CrosScan is a refreshing concept to the word search puzzle industry. For me, I was getting bored with the traditional word-search puzzles, and when I was presented with CrosScan it was a welcome challenge . . . As the words start to leap from the page and the theme is revealed, it makes solving it all the more exciting . . . Bravo to the brilliant puzzlers, Bill Cobb and Susan Brown."

– Gina Moyer

"I saw these interesting puzzles and thought I would try them out. They turned out to be very good, not just a neat idea. Crosswords are usually too hard or too easy for me, and word searches are...


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