That does sound like word nerd heaven....hmmm. I may have to go buy a Dell mag too! Do you ever do Games Magazine? I love the combination of reviews, articles, clever puzzles and interesting commentary.

My favorites are cryptic crosswords (double the fun) and the diagramless, and I love logic problems too.

I stick with the classics - crossword puzzles. I'm not up to the NYT daily (although I haven't tried in years), but I always pick up Games and Games Puzzles magazines. I usually only ending up doing the crosswords, although every month I tell myself that I'm going to start doing some of the other puzzles.

I like pretty much all word puzzles, except I never did get into diagramless. I have a couple of issues of the NYT's Toughest Crosswords, which are indeed quite tough, but wonderfully challenging.

I miss Games magazine very, very much!

I want to order some puzzle stuff from amazon soon, so if anybody has something they love to recommend, let me know!

Ben Tausig's crosswords are the ones I do (in the Chicago Reader and The Onion, specifically) as I enjoy cursing the man's name when the clue's get particularly cryptic or misleading. It's very personal puzzling to me like an ancient rivalry. Plus there are lots of nerd and alt.culture clues which I definitely do better with than the more traditional trivia that I've come across in the NYT puzzles I've tried.

Most puzzles I get bored of (I'm quick but nowhere near respectable in crosswording circles) but that I can identify a person and identify him as a cruel and uncaring Oz makes the completion of a puzzle feel all the more triumphant.

(I think I'm just not up to snuff with the vernacular of the NYT puzzles yet, but I have a subscription that I should take advantage of.)

I love Bookworm, which I play on the computer. Not quite a puzzle, but a lot of fun.

I don't do crosswords, but I adore anagrams. There's some game on Yahoo that I play occasionally, but I haven't found one I like enough to play all the time. I prefer the ones where there is one long word you can make from a series of letters, like Scrabble without the strategy or time limit.

Actually, I like Scrabble, too. But I'm wounded since Jessamyn totally faced me on Scrabulous.

Oh yes, Games magazine is lots of fun.

essexjan, I had one of my best word game moments when I got 'bivouacs' in Bookworm Adventures!

Thanks for the tip, pokermonk, I'll check out Ben Tausig's stuff, I hadn't heard of him before.