Raymond Hamel

multiple choice general trivia. The questions were solid, though the silver shavings were annoying (just brushed one off the iPad). 5000 points makes you a trivia expert, and I squeaked by with 5060 (the book sat there done for months before I got around to adding the score).

I had an extra copy of Patrick Berry's "Puzzle Masterpieces" not written in, and realized I didn't need to gaze at the blank puzzles so offered it on Paperback Swap. Someone requested it, and turned out it was a puzzle person I know. That someone was Ray Hamel, whose "Encyclopaedia Britannica Crosswords" I recently solved. In fact, I finished the book in one day. That's not to say the puzzles are that easy; I'm just compulsive.