La Settimana Enigmistica |  | Publisher: Bresi Spa
Category: Magazine
Buy New: $224.87
as of 9/8/2010 00:07 CEST details
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,898
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 52
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 52
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00007I0M1
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
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Product Description
A well-known Italian magazine that features crossword puzzles, vocabulary tests, cartoons, and a variety of other linguistic brain-teasers. Printed in the Italian language.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ricordo di Roma! (Souvenir of Rome) February 9, 2006
F. S. L'hoir (Irvine, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
La Settimana Enigmistica has to be the world's best puzzle magazine. When I lived in Rome, I bought it every week at the local kiosk. It is full not only of crosswords, but also of intricate puzzles, such as anagrams, monoverbs, changes of vowels or consonants, cryptograms, and other brain teasers--all in Italian. It also has cartoons. The puzzles begin easy, and become harder later in the book.
My favorites are the rebuses, fascinating picture puzzles that depict one thing and, when solved, state something completely different. For instance, a dog barking (latra), the letters GI, two beavers (castori), the letters ADA, and blackberries on a bush (more) translate to "La Tragica Storia d'Amore"--or The Tragic Story of Love. The editors give you the numbers of letters in each word as an aid (e.g., in this puzzle, 2, 7, 6, 1, 5). At any rate, they are great fun.
La Settimana Enigmistica--The Weekly Puzzler--is wildly popular in Italy among all sorts of people. For instance, one cannot get on a bus or a train without seeing business men, college students, well-dressed women, and just plain folks, pencil in hand, working out the puzzles. You will see copies of the magazine on the front seats of taxis; the drivers solve the puzzles between fares. If you are on a long train ride, La Settimana Enigmistica represents a good conversation opener. Someone is always on hand to give you a hint, for instance, about la parola giusta that will help solve the puzzle.
For anyone who wants to achieve proficiency in Italian, La Settimana Enigmistica is just the thing. But beware, it is addictive!
If only it weren't so expensive! (Fortunately I have a large stash left over from the 1980's and 1990's, which ease any enigmistic cravings I might still have.)
 The big problem is delivery August 19, 2005
Paul T. Van Olson (Lovettsville, VA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The magazine itself is the classic Italian puzzle magazine, but the delivery to the U.S. is unreliable--it runs routinely 2 weeks behind, and can go as much as a month before two or three issues show up together.
Great magazine! July 21, 2005
L. Sandonato (Boston)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got hooked on this magazine while living in Italy - I'd buy it every week without fail! Good crosswords, comics and brainteasers will keep you occupied and will help you if you're brushing up on your italian.(However, you should have a pretty good grasp of the language before attempting any of the puzzles)
For Italian language teachers - I'd get a subscription for the class if I were you!
Awesome Italian Crosswords July 20, 2005
Emanuela Paparatti (New York)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful Italian Magazine, filled with Crossword Puzzles and other fun puzzles. It arrives weekly so you always have a new one to enjoy A+++++++
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