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Typeset Game Review

I love word puzzles. I was raised on a subsistence diet of the magazines Games and World of Puzzles, and of Dell Magazine’s endless string of publications. Dell never had the best puzzles, but the sheer quantity is staggering. One imagines an office full of interns, slaving away to form the most satisfying Crostic imaginable. Even at that pace, they couldn’t keep up with demand. I went through one of those tomes a week, which is crazy to think about now. Where do kids find all that time?

Within the world of contemporary board games, word games are plenty popular, but there aren’t many that qualify as word puzzles. It’s an important, meaningful distinction, though I’m open to this being a bug/insect situation. Word games are typically associative, about the meaning of words. Codenames, Just One, and So Clover are all word games, but none of them are word puzzles. Word puzzles play with the words themselves, the matter of words, with letters and syllables. Bananagrams and Scrabble are the most popular examples. Letter Jam is another. Typeset, from the design team at publisher D.V.C., is also very much a word puzzle.

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