I inherited my love for puzzles from my Mom. She was a crossword expert. I could only manage to solve crosswords of moderate difficulty but my Mom? She solved them all, including the expert levels. She also loved anagrams, logic puzzles, math puzzles, and word searches. We spent many occasions rummaging through secondhand bookstores, like Booksale, looking for these puzzle magazines (our favorite brand was Dell).
On special occasions, we gifted each other with these puzzle magazines. She taught me how to solve logic puzzles and eventually, it became my favorite type of puzzle. Whenever her crossword puzzles had logic puzzles, she would skip these, tear off the pages and send the puzzle to me. On my part, I would skip the expert crossword puzzles in my magazines and send these off to her. It was a symbiotic arrangement between mother and daughter!
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