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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Indoor games > Board games
A JIGSAW WITH A TWIST. In this new series of geometrically shaped
puzzles, traditional jigsaw pieces go out the window! A TOTALLY
DIFFERENT PUZZLING CHALLENGE. Using the seven basic geometric
shapes known as tetrominos, you must reconstruct Peter Judson's
geometric cityscape. HOURS OF MADDENING FUN. Each shape is repeated
dozens of times: can you figure out where each piece goes? AMAZING
ARTWORK. Peter Judson's intricate cityscape is filled with minute
detail Finished puzzle 660 x 510 mm
Let's Play SHESS is written to inspire and shake up women of all
ages and backgrounds to take a chance, learn something new and
believe in their abilities. This book provides a fresh entertaining
approach to exploring every woman's inquisitive mind and
entrepreneurial passion by playing chess. The fascinating and
realistic correlation between transferring the chess-playing skills
into your real life is revealed, as well as the invaluable rewards
and benefits you gain as a result. SHESS is an all-encompassing
term which represents "your game of life." All of the circumstances
which exist in your life, including challenges relevant to business
development represent your individual "battlefield." Whether on a
personal or professional level, SHESS relates how you think, react,
analyze and solve problems, and make decisions. While this book is
dedicated to women, everyone is certainly welcome to explore this
wisdom.
PLAY BINGO AND SWEAR LIKE A SAILOR! WARNING! Contains deeply
offensive words, smut and all round bad language THE PERFECT GIFT:
ideal for sweary friends and family GLOSSARY INCLUDED: to explain
some more unusual terms and generally raise your swearing game FOR
3-12 PLAYERS: the ultimate party game for large and small groups
Play bingo with 64 colourful and highly offensive swear words! Each
player gets a game card with 16 random expletives: the first to
complete their board gets to shout BINGO - or something far
worse... BOX CONTAINS: A master board, 12 player boards, 64 tiles,
100 counters, Fold-flat tile box, Sweary Glossary
Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year'
(1722) and 'The King', an anthology of the witty and provocative
chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene
here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in
chess and the wider world. His reflections include the impact of
Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable influence of
the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', the growing army of
teenage Grandmasters, the online pivot of chess competition and the
emergence of chess entrepreneurs, such as World Champion Magnus
Carlsen and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.. Like Donner, Ray uses
chess as a metaphor for observations on art, culture and
civilisation.
"How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us
as we play them?" Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his
own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional
and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of
stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the
outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat,
capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart,
Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his
siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce
hierarchies and relationships-from the familial to the
geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night,
Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and
nostalgia. Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how
culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah
Mesle, Avidly-an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles
Review of Books-specializes in short-form critical essays devoted
to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series
featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each
bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural
artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the
surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.
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