Puzzles category: 626 books

They say that Sudoku is a game of common sense. Maybe it is because it should take only common sense to solve a Sudoku puzzle that we find many people are challenged to crack the code and so they become addicted to the game. The standard Sudoku puzzle shows a large square with three regions,...

Expanagrams features an exciting word puzzle unlike any other: the Expanagram! As its name suggests, an Expanagram is a sort of expanding anagram. The unique concept is easy to learn and the puzzles are fun and challenging to solve! Take the given word, add the letter specified, and rearrange all...

My book is about using your mind and instincts to solve these wonderful puzzles I have created. They are dedicated to people who love to keep their minds active. You know the old saying if you dont use it you lose it.

What is a tangram? It is more easily seen and understood than defined in words. But to put it briefly, it is a geometric dissection puzzle in which seven standard pieces (five triangles, one square, one rhomboid) are used to make images of various objects. The origin of the name is not known, but...

The puzzles in this superb collecton are timeless classics, designed to appeal to novices and aficionados alike.

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles...

In this entertaining and challenging new collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan—author of What Is the Name of This Book? And The Lady or the Tiger?—continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important...

Students can hone their verbal and grammatical skills with this entertaining workbook. Search-a-words, crossword puzzles, anagrams, and other challenges build vocabulary and spelling skills. They also help students understand and identify idioms, irregular past tenses and participles, and other linguistic stumbling blocks. Perfect for individual study or as a course supplement.

Aspiring illusionists can learn from one of the world's greatest magicians with this facsimile of a 1922 book by Harry Houdini. The master sleight-of-hand artist explains how to use the simplest of props ― sheets of paper ― to completely captivate audiences. Houdini's easy-to-follow directions,...

Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book! Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you’d like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment’s distraction filling in a Harry Potter– or Lord of the Rings–themed crossword puzzle, looking up the names of Charles Dickens’s...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to mastering a variety of paper-based magic tricks. “Paper Magic” teaches the budding musician how to construct a variety of paper models, toys, puzzles, and more that can be used to impress anyone they meet! With simple, step-by-step instructions and...

This is a collection of word find/search puzzles specifically formatted for small screen eReaders. The puzzles are all themed towards sports topics This volume contains 16 word search puzzles. Each is broken down into 3 pages. The puzzle grid with no word list, just a subject heading...

Join the world's greatest fictional detective and use your own powers of deduction to solve these ingenious enigmas. This remarkable collection features all kinds of puzzles to suit all tastes.

This collection of Jumble® puzzles—which have been enjoyed by millions of newspaper readers for more than 40 years—features hundreds of mixed-up words coupled with cartoon clues, where one letter from each word is used to form the answers to the puzzles. A must-have for any fan of crosswords...