From 2006

Quoted: A recent puzzle makers' gathering allowed mathematicians, game-players and magicians to revel in life's paradoxes.

Quoted: The Gathering for Gardner Foundation (G4G) is a non-profit corporation that works to honor the achievements of Martin Gardner by promoting the lucid exposition of new and accessible ideas in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles, and philosophy.

Through its support of biannual conferences held in honor Martin Gardner, the foundation encourages the work of amateurs and young people by bringing them in contact with professional scholars, world-class expositors and innovative performers in venues that promote the cross-discipline fertilization of ideas.

My first puzzle book just came out.

Read my blog post on thistangent.com for some more information.

Quoted: Who knew that sudoku could have so much personality? They can—when famous names and intriguing riddles add spice to these popular puzzles. Here’s how it goes: on top of the page is a fun, partially completed clue about an unnamed person; for example, “He was in _____ for 27 years before being elected president.” There’s also a series of nine letters to use in solving the “who-doku,” and the grid itself has a number of circled spaces, as well as shaded areas. When it’s totally filled in, the circled letters provide the answer to the clue, while the shaded ones reveal who the person is. So the solution to the question above is, “prison” and the man is question is Nelson Mandela.

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The best scrabble tiles available. I recommend the injection molded ones (in black, white, blue, or red), but there are more colors available in the silk-screened ones.

Quoted: "The Official Tiles used in National SCRABBLE® Association Championships."

Pretty decent book on how to solve Sudoku's. I got mine from the author and my wife has learned a lot from it, so I just bought one for my mom.

Quoted: Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won’t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games magazine!

Free online issue of the Magpie puzzle magazine. They're switching from paper to online only and are making this in-between issue available as a promotion.

Quoted: The first issue of the Magpie crossword magazine in the new format is free to download. Crossword-lovers are encouraged to have a go, and to spread the word to other like-minded people.

This is a free in-between issue. New 2008 subscriptions start with Issue 61 in January. All the puzzles in 60.5 have been set by the editorial team, and we think there's something for all crossword tastes. You are encouraged (this time only) to forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested. We would be sorry to hear of crossword-lovers (and potential subscribers) who didn't get the chance to have a go.

Hey, my upcoming puzzle book is on Amazon already! But, it's unbelievable how long these things take to get in print.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Who-doku: Sudoku with Personality: Books: Roy Leban by Roy Leban