The hottest craze in puzzles
"On no account should any reader not already hooked so much as a glance at a sudoku. That way lies addiction and madness. Sudoku are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s."
--Tom Utley, " The Daily Telegraph"
From puzzlemaster and "New York Times" crossword editor Will Shortz comes sudoku, the new "wordless crossword" puzzle that's taking the world by storm Once you start, you won't want to stop. These addictive puzzles are easy to explain--just fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rules--but incredibly fun and engaging to complete. You don't need any mathematics knowledge: Just supply a pencil and an inquisitive mind.
This brand-new collection features original, easy-to-solve sudoku from Will Shortz, along with an introduction that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Once you've mastered the easier sudoku, try the last ten puzzles designed to challenge those who want to give their brains more of a workout. If you're a crossword fan, a fan of logic puzzles, or just a puzzle lover in general, you will be engrossed and delighted with sudoku
"A puzzling global phenomenon."
"--The Economist"

Codewords is back! Give yourself a great mental workout with one of the most popular puzzles from the pages of the Telegraph. Test both your numerical and vocabulary skills with this addictive puzzle and clever puzzle. Each grid contains numbers that correspond to a letter of the alphabet, and with the help of a few solutions to start off, the puzzler must crack the code. Telegraph Codewords Volume 7 is the ultimate guide for puzzling fans looking to put their logic and deduction skills to the test.

For an enquiring mind, with an interest in science and mathematics, here is a treasure trove of delights from Philip Searle and son. Puzzles developed by enquiring children and adults for people like them. Not focusing on either science and mathematics gives the elbow room to look at things that curricula don't cover. Some of the more than 75 puzzles in this wonderful book will be familiar friends, here presented in a lively fresh way for new readers. Many others will be new - there are hours of challenging fun to be had for anybody. Here are a few examples: What is the Mpemba effect? Discover the Carpet Fitter's Problem Why are Roman clocks wrong? What is the ratio of the Earth to the Moon? How many times can you fold a piece of paper? How much would you `weigh' in Space? A perfect present for any young person interested in the world - aged 8 years and up - and there is much for anyone of any age! Ideal also for teachers and parents wanting to engage students less interested than they might be in these fascinating topics.

Welcome to Nathalie Lete's Enchanted World Glassine grapes, figs bursting with color, an exotic pineapple--but wait, is that the Marquis de Lafayette riding across the tabletop? Follow this curious artist's dream and, piece by piece, retrace the magic of Nathalie Lete's imagination, and revel in her breathtaking colors and imagery. Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 23 4/5" x 19"

Celebrate your favorite avian friends with this fully-illustrated 500-piece puzzle and booklet set, featuring beautiful illustrations of North American bird species. * SPECIFICATIONS: A 500-piece puzzle, printed in full color on high-quality stock. * PUZZLE DIMENSIONS: This puzzle measures approximately 16 x 20 inches when finished. * FULLY ILLUSTRATED PACKAGE: This puzzle, deluxe box, and booklet feature original illustrations of popular bird species (male and female), including cardinals, blue jays, raptors, and more. * BOOK INCLUDED: Learn the characteristics of a selection of North American bird species, as well as tips for birding, in the enclosed 32-page paperback book (5 x 6 inches), featuring full-color artwork throughout. * PERFECT GIFT: A unique gift for bird lovers of all ages.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel Multi Puzzle Set includes three 250 Piece coordinating puzzles of Wright's iconic art. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. Three color inserts of each full puzzle image are also included. * Set of Three 250 Piece Puzzles, Color-coded on reverse for sorting * Box: 9.25 x 7 x 2", 235 x 178 x 51 mm * Puzzle Size: 8.5 x 15", 220 x 380 mm * Includes 3 Color Inserts with Puzzle Images

Get ready for a brain-teasing trip through the best bits of Great Britain: spot a couple of brightly coloured bulldogs in a hidden pair puzzle; brush up on your knowledge of British cities in a word search and find out who bought Stonehenge at an auction for GBP6,600... Get quizzical with this visually stunning compendium of entertaining activities and surprising facts about Old Blighty.

Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. Stretch your powers of logical deduction with these 200 new Su Doku puzzles, in easy, medium and difficult categories. Keep your mind sharp and test your powers of deductive reasoning. Ideal for whiling away those long commutes, travelling on holiday or relaxing at home. There are puzzles here for all levels ranging from easy, through medium and difficult. Coffee Break Su Doku will satisfy on every level.

An all-new collection of over 300 puzzles from puzzle master Charles Timmerman! The latest collection of word searches is packed with more than 300 new puzzles that feature fun and engaging themes, including literature, popular culture, nature, history, and geography. This giant collection is the perfect companion for word search enthusiasts who can't get enough of puzzles!

Devised by devious genius Tom Cutler, The Pilot Who Wore a Dress is a fiendish collection of riddles, mysteries and puzzles to test and tease your brain. Here's a simple one to get you started: four bodybuilders are huddling together in the street, under a small ladies' umbrella, yet after 20 minutes not one of them has got wet. How is this possible? Separated into original brainteasers and timeless conundrums, plus locked-room head-scratchers and unsolvable crimes borrowed from the very best of detective fiction, this cunning collection will give your lateral thinking muscle a proper workout. See if you can crack the problems by tracing the clues tucked away in each mystery, without sneaking a peak at the answers at the back of the book. These puzzles are perfect for the squashed commute and after-dinner whoopla alike. They are guaranteed to entertain and delight, whether you're a wannabe Sherlock Holmes or a budding Jonathan Creek. Side effects may include bafflement, laughter, smugness, and exclamations along the lines of, 'It's so obvious once you know the answer.' Oh, and about those bone-dry bodybuilders - who said it was raining? So obvious!

The new puzzle book from the National Railway Museum in York! Have you got what it takes to travel around Britain solving these 100 train-based brainteasers, word games, number crunchers and puzzles? Escape from your home and put your puzzle-solving skills to the test with these captivating conundrums that will take you on a whirlwind ride through the nation's most extraordinary past and present railway journeys. From the first journeys of legendary locomotives such as The Flying Scotsman and the Penydarren, to record-breaking routes and trips that changed our world, this is the perfect gift for puzzle book fanatics, train and travel enthusiasts, and history buffs! Inspired by the museum's archives this book is jam-packed with a variety of puzzles, from anagrams, crosswords and wordsearches to logic and mathematical challenges. Alongside puzzles to suit all levels, each section also includes an introduction that covers the most fascinating trivia, facts and figures behind the history of our railways, written by Chris Valkoinen from the National Railway Museum's Search Engine. There's a treasure trove of puzzles to be solved - are you ready to climb aboard?

Many people struggle with their powers of recall at some point in their lives, and in this innovative book Dr Gareth Moore has developed a programme of techniques, exercises and tips that will help you ensure that your memory never lets you down again.

With exercises that target specific issues as well as general-purpose memory workouts, The Memory Coach is packed with information and strategies for use in everyday life, while also providing a guided plan for progression that continues to build upon the techniques you have already covered on previous days. Along with the exercises themselves you'll find plenty of information on what the exercises are actually doing for you and why they are important in maintaining memory function.

From remembering PIN numbers to public speaking, and from acronyms to memory palaces, The Memory Coach will help you to train your memory and keep it sharper, more focused, bigger and better - all in 40 days.

A jam-packed puzzle and trivia book about the birds in Britain, in collaboration with the RSPB. Can you tell your rook from your crow? Do you know the collective noun for a group of goldfinches? Or where a willow warbler goes when it migrates? A must-buy for any bird enthusiast or bird-watching novice, this puzzle book is filled with questions, word games and brainteasers that will test your ornithological knowledge and reveal a treasure trove of incredible facts about our feathered friends - covering topics such as garden birds, coastal and country birds, behaviour, biology, culture, rare birds and bird migration. Featuring over 150 puzzles, from quiz questions to illustrations of birds to test your identification knowledge, wordsearches and crosswords, as well as maps to explore flight patterns, the RSPB Great British Birdwatcher's Puzzle Book will put your friends and family through their paces, and on the path to becoming an ornithological expert.

Jolly Jumble is a great way to give your brain a workout and have fun at the same time.

Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Beryl Cook's 'Good Times'. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference. British Artist Beryl Cook produced vivid oil paintings, which immediately became popular where she lived in Plymouth and let her to exhibit in London galleries continuously for thirty-two years. Cook painted with passion, putting her heart and soul into every piece and in doing so captured a completely original style that was instantly recognisable. Her flamboyant and extrovert characters encompass the absurdities of human behaviour with warmth and humour.

All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!

Test your rugby knowledge with this handy quiz book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of rugby history.

Quiz categories include: Famous Firsts and Lasts Trophy Cabinet Unexpected Interruptions Men and Women Behaving Badly Political Connections The Numbers Game Family Ties Never Mind the Weather.

Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your rugby knowledge to a whole new level.

It's a pocket-size brain gym. Now in a portable 4" x 6" format and priced at only GBP7.99, here are more than 500 full-colour puzzles from the original Big Book of Brain Games, the book with 470,000 copies in print-the book that Will Shortz praised as "the most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining collection of brain-teasers since Sam Lloyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles," and The Washington Post called "an opus...mixing math with wonder. Here are mental games, visual challenges, logic posers, riddles, and illusions. Each designed to stretch neurons and give the brain a workout-all in a format that will fit in your pocket. The puzzles (both original and mind- boggling adaptations of classics) are rated in difficulty from level one to ten, but even the easiest are guaranteed to make the solver feel smart. Can you cross the Impossible Domino Bridge? Break through the Queen's Standoff? Weild the Sickle of Archimedes? THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG BRAIN GAMES: salted peanuts for the mind.

'A brilliant book of 100 games you can play anywhere in your house or garden.' The Sun Playing games can be so enjoyable but don't you often find yourself playing the same old games time and time again? Well, why not let Ivan Brett inspire you with over 99 games to entertain any gathering of friends or family? Inside The Floor is Lava you'll find 100 games to satisfy any busy family and most require no equipment other than pencil and paper. There's everything from fiendish brain teasers and number puzzles to witty wordplays and physical challenges. You'll find something for everyone to enjoy and avoid the whole family resorting to screen-time! In short, this is a how-to for turning time together into quality time together. It's time to put down your screens and pick up the fun! You'll find games for every occasion: * occupy the kids on rainy days * have after-dinner fun around the table * liven up a party * cool off in the summer holidays * beat boredom in the car So what are you waiting for? Jump up and get started - the floor is lava Ivan's next book Bored? Games! 101 games to make every day more playful is out in June. You can PRE-ORDER NOW!

Give in to your addiction to the "Times"'s Sunday crossword puzzle Get comfortable, get set, and get solving with this fun compilation of seventy-five of the greatest Sunday puzzles the "New York Times "crosswords has to offer. Features:

• Seventy-five of the best Sunday crosswords from "The New York Times "
• Convenient, affordable trade paperback for easy transport
• Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz

Everyone's favorite puzzles-now in large print! The Everything Large Print Word Search Book is the perfect addition for puzzlers weary of small type and tight spacing in regular word search puzzles. This all-new volume of oversized puzzles is perfect for someone who prefers large type, while also helping to boost vocabulary, memory, and problem-solving skills. There's a puzzle in here for everyone, with themes ranging from classic television shows and bestselling books to favorite foods and the latest music.