Author: Hoffmann (Professor)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematical recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Puzzles Old and New
Author: Hoffmann (Professor)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematical recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The New York Times Supersized Book of Sunday Crosswords
Author: The New York TimesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312361228
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The biggest, best collection of Sunday crosswords ever published!
Puzzles Old & New
Author: Jerry SlocumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295965796
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shows a variety of antique and modern puzzles, including puzzle locks and rings, and folding, impossible object, vanish, dexterity, sequential movement, disentanglement, interlocking, and take-apart puzzles
New Book of Puzzles
Author: Jerry SlocumPublisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716723561
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Shows how to make a variety of puzzles out of wood, string, and wire, and includes solutions
The New York Times Classic Crossword Puzzles
Author: The New York TimesPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9781250623546
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The New York Times Classic Crossword Puzzles is the perfect gift for any crossword lover! This deluxe collection is a sturdy hardcover volume with high-quality paper and removable cover band. From the top names in crosswords, The New York Times Classic Crossword Puzzles features 100 easy-to-hard brainteasers edited by NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzlemaster and Times puzzle editor Will Shortz. This unique book includes a cloth ribbon marker and removable cover band, leaving a discreet and sophisticated hardcover book with charming crossword grid pattern, so you can solve puzzles in style wherever you go.
The World's Biggest Puzzle Book
Author: Charles Barry TownsendPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402702464
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Presents a collection of riddles, logic puzzles, anagrams, word puzzles, and other types of brain-teazers.
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Author: The Curious History of the Crossword
Author: Ben TausigPublisher: Race Point Publishing
ISBN: 1627881255
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
DIV2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle. Journalist Arthur Wynne had wanted to devise a new game for the back of the newspaper back in 1913, so he created a diamond grid and called it a “Word-Cross,� and thus the first crossword puzzle was born./divDIV Editor and crossword constructor Ben Tausig examines the curious history of the world’s most addictive game and its unusual upbringing. Accompanied by 100 unique and challenging puzzles from the past 100 years, he examines the evolution of grid shape, how basic expected knowledge of the reader has changed, the puzzles that break the “breakfast table rule� and more. Featuring puzzles from top constructors like Will Shortz, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Matt Jones, Cathy Millhauser, Maura Jacobson, and more. Try your pen or pencil on the crosswords your parents, grandparents, or great grandparents did decades ago!/div
The Greatest Puzzles of All Time
Author: Matthew J. CostelloPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486292258
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.
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