Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Games & Activities - Puzzles

Riddle Me This

Can you name four things you eat with a spoon? The largest state in the USA? The sound made by a lion?

If so, this brand-new collection of word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, and word scrambles is just for you Full of riddles and jokes, these puzzles are not only fun, but funny, too. A special introduction by Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, points out just how fun these games can be.

Why is a revolving door so sad?

This brand-new collection of word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, and word scrambles picks up right where the last volume of Outrageous puzzles left off. This second volume is full of zany riddles and silly jokes, sure to tickle your funny bone. Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, writes a great introduction letting everyone know why puzzles have always been fun. So what are you waiting for, dive in

Sudoku has taken America by storm Now kids can enjoy the puzzle that keeps their parents' minds racing and pencils sharpened. This edition, designed for children 8 and up, begins with a sudoku lesson from Will Shortz and very easy 4 x 4 grids to warm up. Then young solvers advance to more challenging 6 x 6 grids and finally tradition 9 x 9 sudoku puzzles.

Features:
- 150 all-new sudoku puzzles
- Four difficulty levels including smaller "kid grids"
- Fun commentary and illustrations
- Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
- Big grids...

How did a single firefly win a fight against onw hundred apes? How did the priest catch a thief with a rooster? How did a student outwit the king? How did a frog escape fron the picher of cream? These and eleven more tantalizing, brain-teasing mysteries are waiting in the pages of this book.

Virtually unobtainable for many years, these two books by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) have now been reprinted in their entirety for the pleasure of modern enthusiasts of mathematical puzzles. Written by the 19th-century mathematician who gave us Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, they contain an unusual combination of wit and mathematical intricacy that will test your mathematical ingenuity and provide hours of stimulating entertainment.
Pillow-Problems is one of the rarest of all Lewis Carroll's works. It contains 72 mathematical posers ranging...

The idea is simple. Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We've included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you've forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks and in the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense. That's what you call a Mad Lib(R), the world's greatest word game. Players have...

What could be more of a delight to young readers? Here in one book is Carroll's famed poem with its original illustrations by Henry Holliday, side by side with Martin Gardner's "Snarkteasers" - delightfully puzzling questions like these:

- Can you rearrange the letters of OCEAN to spell something in which one can
spend days in the...

A card mirror is the key to this amazing exploration of visual and verbal connections. Each of the pictures can be transformed by means of the mirror into a pair of opposites. Concepts like "open and shut," "tidy and untidy," "ancient and modern" are each illustrated by placing the mirror in just the right places on what seem to be perfectly normal pictures. Much ingenuity has gone into creating these pictures and Duncan Birmingham's work will give great delight to children of 5 and well upwards. Probably many adults too.

A child's introduction to the world of optical illusions.

Optical illusions are a window into how the brain perceives. Part of the fun is being fully aware that you're being tricked, fooled and misled. This collection of illusions will definitely do that

Amazing Optical Illusions features thirty of the most fascinating images guaranteed to dazzle the eye and trick the mind. It includes examples of every type of optical illusion:

• Ground/field reversal images where one shape switches into another and back again
• Escher's Impossible Crate
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