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Author: Anne Brown Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402725418 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 102
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Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.
Author: The New York Times Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 9780312590598 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
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75 hip, happening crosswords! With encouragement from editor Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword puzzles have dumped the arcane trivia for fun, fresh pop culture references Features: *75 fun Times crossword puzzles *Portable format is perfect for travel or solving at home *Edited by the biggest name in crosswords, Will Shortz
Author: The New York Times Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312641397 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 68
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50 Quotation puzzles from the pages of The New York Times Edited by Emily Cox and Harry Rathvon New York Times puzzles are America's favorite! Whether your tastes are literary or lowbrow, this latest installment of fifty of the Sunday Times' famous acrostic puzzles features quotations ranging from Herman Melville to Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So sharpen your pencil, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for some acrostic fun!
Author: Anne Brown Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402725418 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.
Author: Anne Brown Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402705823 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 102
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They look like crosswords, but don't be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn't stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, Rawhide, and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you really know about music, history, geography, and even mythology. Break free from the standard word puzzle and tackle the twofold challenge of acrostics for an enlightening change of pace.
Author: Michael H. Dickman Publisher: ISBN: 9780990887713 Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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Fifty challenging acrostic puzzles constructed from thought-provoking quotes, with clues covering subjects from the classics to pop culture. Everything comes together in these acclaimed, wide-ranging confections for the mind. Praise for the first edition from Amazon reviews: A great new volume of acrostic puzzles If you're a confirmed acrostaholic like I am, you'll love Michael's puzzles... Perfect for solving on leisurely Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee -- or three... - Cynthia Morris, Author of "American Acrostics" and "Kids' Krostics" Good collection of acrostic puzzles - Acrostic puzzle books seem to be increasingly rare, and this is a good addition to what's available ...this collection will appeal to acrostic addicts of all levels of skill. - Phelps Gates Well worth purchasing - Very clever acrostics with varied themes ...fine for acrostic connoisseurs - Joan I. Andon The second edition contains the same puzzles as the first; one of the answer keys has been corrected.
Author: Lawrence Meir Friedman Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300147201 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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This book argues that modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political, and legal life. In traditional societies, relationships and identities were strongly vertical: there was a clear line of authority from top to bottom, and identity was fixed by one's birth or social position. But in modern society, identity and authority have become much more horizontal: people feel freer to choose who they are and to form relationships on a plane of equality. The author examines how modern life centers on human identity seen in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion, and how this new way of defining oneself affects politics, social structure, and the law. He claims that our horizontal society is the product of the mass media -- in particular, television -- which break down the isolation of traditional life and allow individuals to connect with like-minded others across barriers of space and time. As horizontal groups blossom, loyalties and allegiances to smaller groups fragment what seemed to be the unity of the larger nation. In addition, the media's ability to spread a global mass culture causes a breakdown of cultural isolation that leads to more immigration and heavy pressure on the laws and institutions of citizenship and immigration.
Author: Peter Scher Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402762284 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 100
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Forty quotes from the greatest motion pictures...and 900 movie-related clues to solve before you can figure them out! These acrostics will provide both film lovers and wordsmiths with hours of pleasure. The unforgettable lines come from movies old and new, famous and a touch obscure; the clues cover performers, directors, plots, titles, and more. Just write the answers down on the blanks, then transfer the letters to the correspondingly numbered boxes in the grid. To help you out, the initial letters of the answer words spell out the speaker of the quote and the movie it’s from. Each puzzle is rated by difficulty on a star system: one for Easy Rider; two for Semi-Tough; three for Flirting with Disaster; and four for Mission Impossible!
Author: Charles Preston Publisher: ISBN: 9781734048391 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from education and humor to history and sports. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Dave Barry, Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Garfield, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "It Knocks Me Out," "My Retirement," "Prove Me Wrong," "Successfully Aging," and "They Always Fell."
Author: A.J. Jacobs Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0593136721 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before Look for the author’s new podcast, The Puzzler, based on this book! What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers, and a hidden, super-challenging but solvable puzzle—The Puzzler will open readers’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times.
Author: Anne Brown
Author: The New York Times
Author: The New York Times
Author: Anne Brown
Author: Anne Brown
Author: Charles Preston
Author: Michael H. Dickman
Author: Lawrence Meir Friedman
Author: Peter Scher
Author: Charles Preston
Author: A.J. Jacobs