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Subject:  If you love puzzles & brainteasers...

(With Christmas rapidly approaching, some who missed my earlier
message have expressed an interest in receiving it so I am 
sending it out again.  I have made some revisions since the 
first message.)

If you  are a  puzzler (one who loves to solve any kind of puzzle
or brainteaser)  like I  am, one of your greatest frustrations is
finding good,  challenging puzzles.   I  have some very good news
for you.

On a  recent business trip to Seattle, Washington, I discovered a
puzzler's dream  come true:   a shop where you can see, touch and
purchase almost any kind of puzzle you can imagine.

The shop is called Puzzletts and is located in Seattle's Westlake
Center.   Mike and Conni Green opened the shop in May of 1991 and
it has  already become  a mecca  for puzzle-enthusiasts  from all
over the world.

Mike counts  over 5,000  puzzles in  his personal collection, and
his initial  fascination has  turned into  a labor  of love.   He
admits that  the goal  of his business is quite simply "to be the
nation's largest  single  source  of  puzzles,  brainteasers  and
related items.   We try to find puzzles people would never see in
their lifetimes  without our  help," Mike   says.  "We'll even do
puzzle  searches.    We  have  a  growing  database  of  puzzles,
manufacturers and  collectors, and  if someone  comes in  wanting
something their grandfather had, we'll try to find it."

Even his business cards are puzzles--and very good ones, too.  In
fact, everything  about his shop is excellent.  You will not find
the common  little mass-market  puzzles that  appear only  around
Christmas in  Hallmark shops  or "cute" boutiques in large malls.
What you will find are:

-  Japanese puzzle boxes (I have wanted one for years and years,
   and bought one at Puzzletts that solves in 20 moves);
-  Puzzle rings (in all price ranges);
-  disentanglements, sliding block, sequential movement, and
   geometrical vanish puzzles;
-  Wooden puzzles, metal puzzles, picture puzzles, and Mike &
   Conni's own line of delightful puzzles called Puzzletts:
   "pocket-size brass entanglements," Mike calls them.

   The list goes on and on.

You can  subscribe to  the  Puzzlett's  "PuzzleWorks"(tm)  puzzle
service catalog  for $25  per year.   The  first  issue  came out
in July of this year.  The puzzle service will give puzzlers 
access  to Puzzlett's  growing and  unique database, 10%
discounts on  anything purchased  in  the  subscription  year,  5
puzzle catalogs  a year,  and a  quarterly newsletter with puzzle
updates.


Each year Puzzlett's will produce for "PuzzleWorks" subscribers 5
catalogs with  high-quality black & white photos of 400 different
puzzles in  each catalog  - for 2000 different puzzles a year for
at least 10 years!  Subscribers to "PuzzleWorks" will receive the
first catalog  free and  will  even  receive  a  free  puzzle  or
brainteaser for  subscribing.   The catalog  itself will become a
reference manual  for years  to come,  and  Mike  also  plans  to
produce a  coffee-table style  "catalog-of-catalogs"  book  which
will have high-quality color photos of the puzzles, plus text and
commentary to  accompany the photos.  If you want to subscribe to
the catalog  or just talk with Mike and Conni about ordering some
puzzles, contact them at the address and numbers below.

Tell them you heard about them on Usenet!

     Puzzletts
     24843 144th Place. S.E.
     Kent, WA  98042

     (206) 630-1432   (voice/information)
     (206) 639-0994   (fax)
     (206) 223-2340   (orders only)