This volume features 200 of the most devious puzzles ever created Features: - 200 mind-melting puzzles - Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz - Portable and affordable package
Every week, over a million people tune to National Public Radio's" Weekend Edition Sunday" to hear Puzzlemaster Will Shortz present his on-air puzzles and weekly challenges. Our second collection of these ingenious word puzzles and games contains another 200 examples of what everyone's been listening to. Whether you have five minutes or 50, whether you tackle the puzzles alone or in a group, working on these mind-benders will help to conjure up that lazy Sunday feeling all week long.
Your fun guide to the latest brain-teasing puzzle sensation Originally developed by a Japanese math teacher, Tetsuya Miyamoto, KenKen is the world's newest and most addictive puzzle phenomenon. The "successor of Sudoku," KenKen For Dummies is a great way for enthusiasts to tackle more than 200 easy to treacherous logic puzzles and exercise their brains at the same time. This guide takes the mystery out of the puzzles, offering strategies for solving them with ease. Learn to use all four mathematic operations to tackle these mind bending puzzles with the aid of step-by-step information, strategies, and advice, along with solutions Helps you find the most effective way to solve each KenKen puzzle Perfect for the puzzle enthusiast and makes a great gift In addition to lots of space for solving these addictive puzzles, KenKen For Dummies also offers helpful tips so any reader can become a puzzle master!
Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain—here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim—a contributor to Games and Discover magazines—and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain—or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.