In A.J. Jacobs’ “The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, From Crosswords to Jigsaw to the Meaning of Life,” an obsessive writer celebrates obsessive decoders.
In the international world of puzzlers, San Francisco’s Dan Feyer is considered a grand master. He is the eight-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and has been deemed “the wizard who is fastest of all” by the New York Times for doing the newspaper’s Sunday crossword puzzle in an average five minutes and 38 seconds.
“Top crossword solvers have to know a little bit about everything, plus how to spell it. I don’t know exactly what it is that separates the average from the elite — quick recall, of course, and pattern recognition,” said Feyer, a professional musician and music director from The City’s Sunnyside neighborhood.
“Jigsaws were the hottest things around, and you couldn’t find them. Because the pandemic had made them a hot commodity, they were as hard to find as hand sanitizer,” he said. He admits to being “a sucker for people who are passionate about something, regardless of how silly that passion might seem to others.”
The last 80 pages of the book contain original puzzles by Greg Pliska, who cleverly connected each one to themes in Jacobs’ chapters: Rubik’s Cubes, Sudoku and KenKen, chess along with hints, resources and solutions.
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