Everyone knows Sudoku is enjoyable - but these addictive puzzles also come in endless variations too! They range from simple to very difficult, and can take almost no time to finish...or require many hours. This entertaining collection showcases a wide range of possibilities, offering solvers who have become accustomed to the standard rules and grids an exciting new challenge. Select from Mega Sudoku that provides a real workout, Diagonals or Odd and Even versions with extra constraints, Sum Sudoku that merges with kakuro and Multisudoku with overlapping puzzles. There's something for every level - 12 X 12 puzzles, ones with irregularly shaped areas, even Mini Sudoku - and lots of fun for everyone.

In this volume, world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, and magicians continue the tradition of honoring Martin Gardner, who inspired them to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. This edited collection contains a variety of articles connected to puzzles, magic, and/or mathematics, including the history behind given puzzles, solitaire puzzles, two-person games, and mathematically interesting objects. Topics include tangrams, peg solitaire, sodoku, coin-weighing problems, anamorphoses, and more!

More than 200 word search puzzles are dedicated to the fascinating exhibits and beautiful gardens found in and around the Smithsonian's museums. Includes flowers, trees, succulents, fruits, vegetables, exotics, and heirlooms. Search for words that relate to and describe these botanical wonders, and read interesting facts along the way. Word lists include easy, moderate, and challenging searches. Keep your brain fit by and test your word-finding skills searching vertically, diagonally, forwards, and backward in pursuit of hidden words.

This collection contains a fantastic variety of puzzles to satisfy beginner and expert puzzlers alike and offers a much-needed brain boost for hours of entertainment. Help improve memory and focus by completing a new find-the-word challenge every day, with a variety of unique themed word searches with this Smithsonian Word Seach Book!

• OVER 200 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy with a large variety of everyone's favorite seek and find word puzzles.
• LAY FLAT: Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this puzzle book can go with you.
• MAKES A GREAT GIFT: A perfect gift for Mother's & Father's Day, Christmas, birthdays, vacations, and more, word finds make an excellent gift for any occasion.
• BRAIN BUSTERS: Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press and officially licensed by the Smithsonian. Look for other books including Smithsonian Natural History Word Search & Women in History Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, John Deere Word Search, Large Print Word Searches, Bible Word Search, Crosswords, Picture Puzzles, and More!

In this delicious take on the classic seek-and-find, it's up to you to discover all the hidden items in each picture! Go on a tasty adventure with a group of food-obsessed friends as they dream up fantastic culinary destinations, from an egg-cellent art studio to a pizza party in space. Look out for hidden snacks and hat-wearing corgis along the way.

The book contains a series of workouts specifically designed by Mensa's finest puzzle setters to stretch and mould your mind muscle. There are 20 tests consisting of 40 puzzles each, focussing mainly on logic puzzles both traditional and non-traditional, from Skyscrapers and Number Pyramids to more exotic puzzles like Kropki and Hashi. Mensa Test Your Mind has exactly what you need to make your brain healthier, fitter and faster - leading to benefits in all areas of your life.

Variety is the spice of sudoku--so solvers will love these wild variants on the popular puzzle, which up the challenge and the fun! Sudoku took the puzzle world by storm, but some fans have grown a bit bored with the constant repetition of 1 through 9 and 3x3 boxes. With variations such as overlapping and oversize grids, diagonals, shaded squares, and more, these puzzles bend the rules and bring something new to the game. Each gem is like a crazy cousin of standard sudoku--and solvers will be overjoyed to join the family reunion.

One of the Daily Telegraph's most successful puzzles, the daily Codewords puzzle has won thousands of fans since its introduction in 2003, because it is unique in testing both vocabulary and numerical skills, as well as being hugely addictive! Each grid contains numbers that correspond to a letter of the alphabet, and with the help of a handful of solutions, the puzzler must crack the code.

* Readers get no clues to what the puzzle is about* They may take hours or even days to work out what is being asked of them* Even after that, some problems may have no solutionThe result - a really challenging book that will fascinate anyone interested in puzzles and recreational mathematicians in particular. This volume contains 36 puz-zles ranging from quite easy to quite difficult.

The vast majority of sudoku puzzles that are labeled "hard," "expert," "challenger," are not really all that difficult. And in a surprising number of cases, they are downright easy. In the "Absolutely Nasty Sudoku" books, you will find puzzles truly worthy of the label "hard." The puzzles increase in difficulty throughout the four books in the series. It ranges from basic and intermediate puzzles and techniques at Level No. 1, to the most advanced techniques at Level No. 4, along with puzzles that require multiple advanced techniques each time.

From Turner Classic Movies, this challenging 2-in-1 puzzle and book gift set spotlights 100 of the greatest stars from Hollywood's golden age and beyond. * 2-IN-1: The double-sided puzzle included in this set gives you 2 unique scenes to piece together; the movies' most awe-inspiring leading ladies shine on Side 1, and Side 2 is a star-studded tribute to the leading men * INFORMATION-PACKED BOOK: An 56-page paperback companion book (5 x 6 inches) offers essential stats and key films for every star featured on the puzzle * SPECIFICATIONS: 500-piece double-sided puzzle, full-color and printed on high-quality stock; finished puzzle measures 16 x 20 inches * KEEPSAKE BOX: Cards are house in full-color printed keepsake box with magnetic closure * PERFECT GIFT: A movie lover's dream

A dissection involves cutting a polygon into pieces in such a way that those pieces form another polygon; for a hinged dissection, the pieces must be attached by hinges. A piano hinge is "a long narrow hinge with a pin running the entire length of its joint." So, unlike regular hinged dissections, which swing or twist (around single point of hinge), piano-hinged dissections fold along an edge. This book discusses the history, methods, and variations of these dissections and is rich with illustrations that clearly depict the cuts of the dissections and three-dimensional simulations of the dissections in the process of being folded. The downloadable resources include video recordings of select dissections being transformed accompanies the book.

Challenge yourself at home with number puzzles Previously unpublished quality Su Doku grids from The Times, which help develop your skills to take on Extreme Su Doku. The 200 puzzles in this collection of treacherously difficult puzzles will stretch even the most advanced Su Doku enthusiast. You will need to use all of your best solving techniques to get to the end of this testing challenge. The puzzles in the collection are of the highest quality and are perfect for the advanced solver in need of a constant supply of ultra-difficult puzzles. Guaranteed to provide hours of mind-stretching entertainment.

For anyone who loves the challenge of Su Doku but manages to solve them within minutes, you can now enjoy the extended mental workout and ultimate endurance test of a five grid interlinked system. This is Su Doku multiplied: every column, row and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual 9x9 length but the interlocking boxes give you more clues - and more complexity. With another 100 new Samurai puzzles to vex you for hours, lose yourself in the four levels of this book: 10 Easy 40 Mild 40 Difficult 10 Super difficult Even the speediest of Su Doku solvers will be agonising over these ultra-complex, extended brainteasers. These are the most difficult Su Doku puzzles in The Times range.

A collection of restful puzzles and brain-training activities, designed to relieve stress and inspire creativity. This is the fourth in a series of four books by the same bestselling author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book, The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2 and The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 3. There is also an ebook, Mindfulness Puzzles for Your Kindle, comprising content from books 2 and 3. Puzzle-solving is a favourite relaxation technique for many, and this book features a wide range of specially selected games to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain. Feel the tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the endorphin-reward buzz as you successfully complete each puzzle. Stimulating your mind with each puzzle also helps unlock your brain's innate creativity, just as sleep and rest can help you reach a breakthrough on pending tasks. This book will help you feel refreshed and renewed, and ready to carry on with your daily life. Puzzles include a wide selection of standard puzzle types, avoiding the stress of the new, but without the boredom of over-repetition. They also include adult versions of relaxing kids' activities, such dot-to-dot puzzles, mazes, colouring-in and spot-the-difference puzzles.

Based on Anna Faris's hit podcast Unqualified, Dealbreakers is an irreverent party game that explores what happens in a romantic relationship after that initial swipe right. Gather your friends, open your mind, and prepare to discover what you're really willing to accept from a romantic partner! Would you banish someone who bought off-brand cereal? What about a loud chewer? In this game players can be both sappy and silly as they explore what really counts as a dealbreaker in a new relationship with the help of Anna Faris -- who asks celebrities these very same questions on her top-rated podcast! Each round begins with a scenario card that sets the scene, and players must each select a "dealbreaker" card they believe will convince the round's leader to abandon the date. But even the dealbreakers that seem terrible on first blush might be excusable for the right person! As players explore these questions, they'll learn more than they ever thought about themselves, their friends, and, of course, how to avoid dating axe-murderers. This party game includes: * 30 date scenario cards + 5 bonus "wild card" scenarios * 300 deal breaker cards * 15 create-your-own deal breaker wild cards * Full-color, 32-page illustrated book with rules of game play and a personal essay from Anna Faris

Acclaimed Japanese mathematics instructor Tetsuya Miyamoto developed KenKen in 2004 and it has since taken over the puzzling world. It takes a page from karate - another Japanese art - each title is graded by colour: White for easy, Green for medium, Brown for hard & Black Belt, for the super-tough! All in a handy-sized format, so puzzle lovers can play this addictive game wherever the mood takes them! So, you've worked your way through the easiest, for-beginners-only KenKen. The next level awaits you. Do you have what it takes to solve these 300 puzzles?

Join the nation's favourite puzzle brand as we take a journey through landscape and history. In this brand new puzzle book in the bestselling Ordnance Survery series, take a trip through time - from the earliest recorded footsteps of humans in Britain, to the spot where Caesar first surveyed Britannia, to the beaches where the battle of 1066 took place, and on through some of the most iconic moments in British history (as well as plenty of less well-known historical treasures!). Including 40 new regional maps and hundreds of puzzles, mind-boggling brainteasers, navigational tests, word games, code-crackers, anagrams and mathematical conundrums, there will be plenty to keep you occupied as you go! With maps covering the whole of the UK and puzzles ranging across four levels of difficulty, The Ordnance Survey Journey Through Time is an adventure for all the family.

A comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies. This book aims to impose some structure on this increasingly large family of games, and to define exactly what constitutes a connection game. Key games are examined in detail and complete rules for over 200 connection games and variants are provided. A connection game is a board game in which players vie to develop or complete a specific type of connection with their pieces. This might involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or gathering all pieces together into a single connected group.

Give your logic skills a workout with the brilliant Sudoku puzzles in this book, put together by puzzle master Dr Gareth Moore. Forget your worries, pick up a pen and focus on these challenging brain-teasers.

The tradition of a publication based on the Gathering for Gardner continues with this new carefully selected and edited collection in which Martin Gardner and friends inspire and entertain. The contributors to this volume---virtually a list of Who's Who in the World of Puzzles---trace their inspiration to Martin Gardner's puzzle column in Scientific American and to his contributions to the world of recreational mathematics. Tribute to a Mathemagician contains an author index for the two previous books in the collection of books based on the Gatherings for Gardner. Sample puzzles and games include: - Tripos - Black Jack - Chinese ceramic puzzle vessels - Paper folding - Mongolian interlocking puzzles - Rolling block puzzles - Sliding puzzles - Cryptic crosswords - The Panex puzzle - Polyonimo puzzles - and more

Can you take on the toughest logic puzzles? 150 mind-bending conundrums to challenge even the most seasoned solver! Take on a vast variety of fun tasks from solving burglaries and cracking safes, to finding hidden treasure and sketching crime suspects. Develop your brain power as the puzzles increase in difficulty. Even the smartest in the family will be pleading for mercy with the final selection! If you love solving entertaining and rewarding puzzles then The Telegraph Toughest Logic Puzzles is for you. Ideal for sharpening minds, both young and old!

Artist Ben Gilles describes his work as a composition of nature, metamorphosis, light, color, collage, collaboration, juxtaposition, repetition, excitement, evolution, manipulation, music, television, improvisation, participation and seduction. This is quite apparent in the Gilles' colorful hand-cut paper flower and butterfly collage bursting from an open book on Blooming Books 750 Piece Shaped Puzzle. The finished puzzle is a uniquely die-cut and contoured to the edges of this beautiful image. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage.

Celebrating 30 years of broadcasting, Classic FM returns with a new collection of mindful puzzles to de-stress and unwind with. Blending together basic trivia, complex wordplay and a range of visual teasers, the book will engross all lovers of the finest music and provide hours of meditative music-themed puzzling. With 150 challenges over three difficulty levels for classical novices, lovers, and experts to choose from, The Classic FM Puzzle Book: Relax will entertain and delight you from the first bar until the very last note.

This latest collection of puzzles from the internationally acclaimed puzzlemaster Nob Yoshigahara covers a wide variety of puzzles from physical to visual, conceptual to mathematical. Solutions are provided in a separate section, which will help novices get on the right track, and will give seasoned aficionados a chance to check their work.