Excalibur Electronic New York Times Electronic Touch-Screen Crossword Puzzle 455

Pros: Great for crossword puzzle fanatics. Fun and very compact.
Cons: Good eyesight required. Can get tedious switching between the puzzle and the clues.

I've always been a big fan of puzzles, especially logic and crossword puzzles. I cannot tell you how many puzzle-books I've written in down through the years, but the number would be quite large. I recently got into doing crossword puzzles on-line, but ...

Pros: Compact games with lots of crosswords.
Cons: Display.

It delivers puzzles, as advertised. But the backlighting and screen contrast are so weak that I struggle as much to read the puzzles as to solve them. In addition, I underestimated how small the screen and buttons are -- takes a bit of concentration...