Well, confound me. Once upon a time, one had to rely on the ultra-clever and ultra secretive setters of newspaper crosswords for company on a wet Wednesday in November. Now one can abandon one's paper altogether for a handy desktop box containing a whole 365 crossword challenges which, if one's memory serves one correctly, is enough for a whole year.

We've never quite understood the attraction of the crossword, or Sudoku for that matter. Maybe it's man's eternal quest to complete and finish. Maybe it's man's eternal desire to show what a right clever dick he is. Or maybe it's just that we need a distraction from Richard and Judy once in a while. That's one for the social anthropologists of the future to argue over.

Designed to sit conveniently atop one's desk, this numbered block uses the page-per-day format, meaning you can simply tear off a page when one is done only to find the next day's linguistic challenge waiting underneath. Wickedly super.

And, with a whole 300+ challenges to keep your grey matter in fine fettle, once you've succumbed to the daily temptation to do the crossword in work time (and why not), you'll be fully stimulated, intellectually that is, and ready for the rigours of your working day.