"""Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling.""" ? The Independent (London)

Why do your chances of winning the lottery increase if you buy your ticket on Friday? Why do traffic lights always seem to be red when you?re in a hurry? Is bad luck just chance, or can it be explained?

The intriguing answers to these and other questions about the curiosities of everyday life can be found in this delightfully irreverent and highly informative book. Why Do Buses Come in Threes? explains how math and the laws of probability are constantly at work in our lives, affecting everything we do, from getting a date to catching a bus to cooking dinner. With great humor and a genuine love for the subject, Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham present solutions to such conundrums as how fast one should run in the rain to stay dry and who was the greatest sportsman of all time.Discover the mathematical explanations for the strange coincidence of two.

Presidents dying on July 4, the uncanny ""accuracy"" of horoscopes, and other not-so-coincidental coincidences. Eastaway and Wyndham also reveal how television ratings work, which numbers are more likely to be big winners in the lottery, and why bad things, just like buses, always seem to happen in threes.

Whether you have a degree in astrophysics or haven't touched a math problem since high school, this book sends you on a fascinating journey through the logic of life where Newton's laws explain bar fights, exploding rabbit populations, and why showers always run either too hot or too cold. Why Do Buses Come in Threes? is a delightfully entertaining ride that reveals the relevance of math in absolutely everything we do.

Large, diverse, and completely contemporary, this stimulating collection of 188 puzzles is absolutely addictive. Choose from such fun themes as Ancient Egypt, Difficult Words to Spell, Down on the Farm, Green with Envy, Happy New Year, It's All Greek to Me, Letter of the Law, On the Road Again, and You Gonna Eat That? No other word search book comes close

Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately. Lateral thinking can turn your organization around and make you a better leader. In The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane demonstrates how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. This book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises that you can put to work today.

The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle

Swing into spring with Su Doku These all-new Easy to Medium puzzles are the perfect way to enjoy the sunny days ahead More than just hours of entertainment, Su Doku engages your mind, improves your concentration, and helps you stay mentally fit. With 150 brand-new puzzles to complete, you'll become a Su Doku master in no time

From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems? The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?

Exploring Geometry, Second Edition promotes student engagement with the beautiful ideas of geometry. Every major concept is introduced in its historical context and connects the idea with real-life. A system of experimentation followed by rigorous explanation and proof is central. Exploratory projects play an integral role in this text. Students develop a better sense of how to prove a result and visualize connections between statements, making these connections real. They develop the intuition needed to conjecture a theorem and devise a proof of what they have observed. Features: Second edition of a successful textbook for the first undergraduate course Every major concept is introduced in its historical context and connects the idea with real life Focuses on experimentation Projects help enhance student learning All major software programs can be used; free software from author

Iconic Watches. Some are heirlooms, connecting generations. Some are gifts, marking a milestone. And some are simply works of beauty, to be treasured for their aesthetics, value, and precision. But every watch, whether as priceless as Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona or as common as a Casio G-Shock, tells a story. In this puzzle, the stories arrive piece by piece, and gradually unite in a celebration of 77 watches. Featuring: 500 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 19" x 23 4/5"

Historically, marbled paper has been used for decor projects from book-binding to wallpaper and everything in between. This Florentine Blue is a mesmerising design, very challenging indeed for any puzzle enthusiast! We are excited about the mind-bending fun of putting such a puzzle together but this box looks just as beautiful on the mantle or desk. 500-piece jigsaw puzzle Durable, compact, 2-piece box Gift box: 152 x 198 x 50 mm Completed puzzle: 482 x 355 mm teNeues NYC Stationery keeps up with fun and games at home with our museum-quality printed 500-Piece Puzzles. Packaged in durable, compact boxes, our 500-Piece Puzzles feature full-colour artwork, expertly-printed with nontoxic inks on sturdy, puzzle grey board.

Anisa Makhoul brings us this bright and fun graphic of New York City, a sunny reminder of the great city. Anisa is the daughter of a Lebanese beekeeper, and I recently discovered her love for illustration. She lives in sunny Portland, Oregon. 500-piece jigsaw puzzle Durable, compact, 2-piece box Gift box: 152 x 198 x 50 mm Completed puzzle: 482 x 356 mm teNeues NYC Stationery keeps up with fun and games at home with our museum-quality printed 500-Piece Puzzles. Packaged in durable, compact boxes, our 500-Piece Puzzles feature full-colour artwork, expertly-printed with nontoxic inks on sturdy, puzzle greyboard.

This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed. The types of games include: lateral thinking games, riddles, logic tests, anagrams, palindromes, proverbs, limericks, word ladders, tongue twisters, plus a whole host of other word-related games. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Other books in the Easy English!series include: Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

Yumi Kitagishi is a Tokyo-based illustrator known for her striking harmony of colours, hand-drawn style, and imaginative characters, reminiscent of children's picture books. One of her specialties is her creation of full, rich, miniature worlds. We are proud to present Yumi's one-of-a-kind illustration for our latest 500-Piece Puzzle release. Reading Light shows a sweet night garden scene full of flowers and creatures getting cosy to read favourite books under lamplight. 500-piece jigsaw puzzle Durable, compact, 2-piece box Gift box: 152 x 198 x 50 mm Completed puzzle: 482 x 355 mm teNeues NYC Stationery keeps up with fun and games at home with our museum-quality printed 500-Piece Puzzles. Packaged in durable, compact boxes, our 500- Piece Puzzles feature full-colour artwork, expertly-printed with nontoxic inks on sturdy, puzzle grey board.

Based on the hit card game that has sold millions of copies around the world, the Unlock! Escape Adventure Puzzle Book provides a new way to enjoy the popular Unlock! Escape Adventure series. Immerse yourself in this colourful escape-room experience, which can be enjoyed either at home on your own or with a group. There are three adventures for you to challenge yourself against, each with their own charming narrative: Enter a secret underground lab to recover a mysterious and important serum that has the potential to drastically change the world! The dastardly Professor NoSide has trapped you in his lair! With the help of a friendly mouse, can you free yourself in time to foil his evil plans? Your friend Professor Tempus has disappeared, just as you arrived to experiment with his time machine. Can you solve the mystery before our timeline is damaged forever? Are you up to the challenge? You will have to use all of your wits, logic and skill to solve these puzzles, escape and SAVE THE WORLD!

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles The ninth title in The Times Fiendish Su Doku series - the latest volume of previously unpublished quality Su Doku puzzles from the puzzle providers to the Times. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve the treacherous puzzles in this collection of Fiendishly difficult puzzles - it's simply a question of logic. Since the first Su Doku puzzle appeared in The Times in November 2004, this classic game of logic has become a phenomenon, with over 5 million copies of the Times Su Doku series sold worldwide. Perfect for the advanced solver in need of a constant supply of ultra-difficult puzzles, and guaranteed to provide hours of mind-stretching entertainment.

It's a beachcomber's fantasy come true. A faithful reproduction of a page from a nineteenth-century naturalist's encyclopedia, resplendent in its chromolithographic color and detail, Shells comes straight from the collection of John Derian, the artist and designer whose work with printed images of the past transports the viewer to another time and place. This impeccable arrangement of scallop shells will fill the puzzle doer's hours with the joy of immersing oneself in nature. Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 18 7/8 x 26 3/8"

The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder's "The Riddler" column. Presented by Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, an online mecca for statistics nerds, the column attracts a rabid community of puzzlers (including the coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) who rush to submit solutions and extensions. Now, FiveThirtyEight presents the first-ever Riddler collection, featuring the column's most popular problems, which draw on geometry, logic, statistics and game theory, along with six never-before-published puzzles. The simplest require a mere flash of insight, whilst the toughest involve deep applications of analysis and probability theory. Can you rig an election? What's the best way to drop a smartphone? Can you solve the puzzle of the overflowing martini glass? Designed to appeal to a range of skill levels, The Riddler will be the perfect gift for any maths or puzzle enthusiast.

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.

Over 200 Corrie Conundrums from the Cobbles Enjoy hours of fun with the first official puzzle book from the famous cobbles. Over 200 puzzles that test your knowledge of TV's longest-running soap as well as your puzzle-solving ability. Can you find hidden characters in paragraphs of text, name the missing characters in the family trees, complete a 'Ken-doku', take part in a classic quiz night at the Rover's, spot the differences and untangled the cryptic webs? There are puzzles for all levels of ability and members of the family illustrated with images from the show. Throughout the book there are also fun trivia from the history of the soap written by Corrie author Abigail Kemp, including facts, details and figures on famous feuds, the infamous cat and even how many pints would be served at the Rovers and eggs fried at Roys' Rolls each week. The Official Coronation Street Puzzle Book is a feast of fun for Corrie fans!

Catch Canucks fever and celebrate over 40 years of Vancouver Canucks hockey This must-have collection--jam-packed with 80 pages of puzzles, crosswords, games, trivia, facts and fun for towel-waving fans of all ages--will have you Luu-ing and riding your stick like Tiger Williams in no time. From Harold and the Steamer to Gino and the Russian Rocket, from Trevor Linden to the record setting Sedins, from the high-scoring West Coast Express to back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, it's all here in this exciting trivia book that will bring hours of fun and memories to every loyal Canucks fan.

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, with Alice and the Queen of Hearts. 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. The Science Museum Group is a collection of museums comprising: Science Museum, Science and Industry Museum, National Railway Museum, Locomotion, National Science & Media Museum, and National Collections Centre Museum. The breadth of the collection is regularly showcased at their sites across the UK. This jigsaw features a hand-painted magic lantern slide from the National Science & Media Museum Collection. The image is loosely based on Sir John Tenniel's frontispiece illustration for the 1866 edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The original image did not feature Alice herself, but was added here to better illustrate the conversation between Alice and the Queen of Hearts in the final scene of the story.