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A dynamic program for improving memory and sharpening focus

Each year, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on gym memberships, exercise equipment, and workout videos, all in the name of physical fitness. But what are they doing for their minds? In Dental Floss for the Mind, a leading cognitive scientist and a neurologist team up to offer you a complete program for improving memory and stimulating your mind.

This interactive guide features:

• More than 100 creative and engaging exercises of increasing difficulty to stimulate cognitive...

A power tune-up to get your brain revved and ready for high speed

Misplacing car keys, spacing out during an important meeting, or drawing a blank on a name--these are signs of a brain in desperate need of a good workout. The authors of Dental Floss for the Mind have designed a whole new collection of challenging, fun, interactive activities to boost brain function.

Get Your Brain in the Fast Lane features over 100 inventive and engaging exercises designed to stimulate, develop, and improve five key cognitive areas of the brain: attention, memory, language skills, visual and spatial...

Millions of Americans have already acclaimed sudoku as the most addictive, enjoyable puzzle since the Rubik's Cube. So don't wait: Pick up a pencil and solve away

Features:
-300 of the world's best sudoku
-The puzzles that have taken the world by storm
-Introduction and solving tips from puzzlemaster Will Shortz

The world has fallen in love with Sudoku and now it's hungry for more In Will Shortz Presents Beyond Sudoku, Puzzlemaster Will Shortz introduces Sudoku fans to the next generation of logic puzzles from Japan. These puzzles--including Masyu, Nurikabe, Hashiwokakero, and Slitherlink--have become wildly popular in Japan and are ready to make their way to an eager American audience.

Features:
- 100 all-new puzzles
- Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
- Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

What's more fun than a crossword puzzle and more addictive than Sudoku? It's Kakuro of course the latest puzzle craze to sweep the nation. Puzzle Master Timothy E. Parker, known in theGuinness Book of World Recordsas "the world's most syndicated puzzle compiler," offers 150 brand new puzzles to tickle your brain and transform you from a number-stumbling novice into Kakuro Master.
Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles
Five extra-large Bonus Puzzles
Rules, Tips and Strategies
A list of "unique sums" which are the key to unlocking the logic of Kakuro
A "Complete Sum Chart"...

Dr. Ecco is a mathematical detective and puzzle solver. In this book readers are invited to join him in solving nearly 40 puzzles inspired by methods in computer science and mathematics, including The Tower of Lego, the Odd Doors Problem, Spies and Double Agents, Gossiping Defenders, Code Breaking, and many more.

Simple game and big fun! Puzzles with exact one solution Puzzles pre-filled 21 to 24 cells Puzzles that can be solved without guessing A good diversion from your regular work A feeling of challenge to solve the puzzles A feeling of satisfaction or achievement after solving the puzzles Good for beginners and those people who prefer things to be definite

Sudoku 2, the new sudoku, 211 puzzles and their solutions.

Puzzle fans have bought more than 650,000 copies of the Mensa Genius Quiz series--the only books that let readers "match wits with Mensa," comparing how well they do against members of the famous high-IQ society. Here, in a giant omnibus edition, are four best-selling titles: The Mensa Genius Quiz Books 1 & 2, The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book, and The Mensa Genius ABC Book. Here are more than 800 fun mindbenders to exercise every part of your brain--word games, trivia, logic riddles, number challenges, visual puzzles--plus tips on how to improve your thinking skills. All...

HOW TO PLAY KAKURO AND SUCCEED

Kakuro is a Japanese game of logic -- and the next big puzzle craze to sweep the world since Su Doku. Like Su Doku, Kakuro is played on grids of varying sizes, using the numbers 1 to 9, and like Su Doku, Kakuro is absorbing, addictive, and utterly compelling. Combining numbers and logic, and with the interconnectedness of a crossword puzzle, this is a game for everyone -- all you need is the ability to add two numbers together.

The Essential Book of Kakuro contains full instructions to the game, along with hints, tips, and invaluable...

HOW TO PLAY SU DOKU, KAKURO AND HANJIE -- AND SUCCEED

Su Doku -- the logic puzzle that took the world by storm and shows no sign of stopping.

Kakuro -- a brain-teasing Japanese puzzle that for many is even more entertaining than Su Doku.

Hanjie -- the classic Japanese puzzle that uses logic to reveal a picture.

The absorbing combination of numbers and logic makes the puzzles in this book completely addictive. With 150 all-new and unique Su Doku, Kakuro and Hanjie puzzles, of increasing levels of difficulty, The Essential Book of Japanese Puzzles also...

Kakuro is a Japanese game of logic -- and the next big puzzle craze to sweep the world since Su Doku. Like Su Doku, Kakuro is played on grids of varying sizes, using the numbers 1 to 9 and, like Su Doku, Kakuro is absorbing, addictive and utterly compelling. Combining numbers and logic, and with the interconnectedness of a crossword puzzle, this is a game for everyone -- all you need is the ability to add two numbers together.

Like the first volume in this series, The Essential Book of Kakuro 2 contains full instructions to the game, along with hints, tips and invaluable...

Detective Stanwick is back And you are about to be challenged by 30 exciting mysteries. Each one takes only about five minutes to read. Every puzzle combines features of the traditional whodunit (physical clues, red herrings, means, motive, opportunity, time sequences) with logic puzzles (true-false statements, matching suspects with occupations, even a little math).
Are you up to a little sleuthing and deductive reasoning?
- The Case of the Suspicious Fire Did the owner try to burn down his own store? Or was he really home asleep?
- The Megaplast Mystery Someone's...

Prepare to be amazed Inside the covers of this incredible, colorful collection are hundreds of the world s most powerful optical illusions. They re beautiful to behold, and stunning in their trickery. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action, vibrating, pulsing, and spinning like a hula hoop. Other ambiguous illusions feature two subjects in one: the fun is in finding them both in the single pictureincluding a mouse playing hide and seek in a cat s face and a strange desert mirage where palm trees imperceptibly morph into camels. And still more, like The Impossible...

Kakuro are language-free number puzzles that use pure logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve. This book contains 150 kakuros. It takes cue from the belt colors in martial arts: white is for novices, green for intermediates, brown for very accomplished players, and black for those consummate experts who crave a challenge.

Kakuro are language-free number puzzles that use logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve. This book contains 150 kakuros. It takes cue from the belt colors in martial arts: white is for novices, green for intermediates, brown for very accomplished players, and black for those consummate experts who crave a challenge.

Kakuro are language-free number puzzles that use pure logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve. This book contains 150 kakuros. It takes cue from the belt colors in martial arts: white is for novices, green for intermediates, brown for very accomplished players, and black for those consummate experts who crave a challenge.

Tic-Tac-Toe is more complex than just 9 squares. There are so many people that know how to play tic-tac-toe but have no strategy. Tictactics was written to give people of all ages the strategies needed to master the game of tic-tac-toe. You will learn all the best possible moves and even how to control your opponent's moves. This book truly has every angle of the game broken down so you can become the best tic-tac-toe player possible.

Since writing two previous joke books several persons have asked me to create some new jokes. There was some reluctance about providing new material as I have seen my work being used at Comedy shows and in plays without any recognition of me being the creator/author. It is frustrating to attend a show, see your work being performed with the performers being paid, and you the author of the work not receiving any monetary benefit. After much consideration and in the interest of making a sad face smile or a bored person laugh I decided to proceed. However, I have planned to police, taped...

Learn how to take the ""tease"" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your Puzzle IQ gives you the know-how you need to decipher even the most puzzling of puzzles.
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