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Join the world's greatest fictional detective and use your own
powers of deduction to solve these ingenious enigmas. This
remarkable collection features all kinds of puzzles to suit all
tastes and levels of logical skill - from 'elementary' to
'impenetrable'. 'You know my methods, apply them' Sherlock Holmes -
The Sign of Four.
1000-PIECE PUZZLE featuring the women of Greek mythology as you've
never seen them before. Finished puzzle measures 680 x 485mm SPOT
FAMOUS FIGURES AND MYTHICAL MOMENTS, as you build the puzzle - can
you find Pandora and her jar, or Medusa with snakes for hair?
INCLUDES A FOLD-OUT POSTER featuring the stories of the real women
of Greek myth from best-selling author and classicist Natalie
Haynes STURDY & ATTRACTIVE BOX perfect for gifting and storage
Think you know these women? Put the pieces together and you will
start to think again. In this beautifully illustrated 1,000-piece
jigsaw puzzle, rediscover the lives and stories of the women of
Greek myth, portrayed by author, broadcaster and classicist Natalie
Haynes with illustrator Natalie Foss. A large fold-out poster of
the artwork accompanies the jigsaw and also includes an original
essay from the author, expanding on the stories, relationships and
context surrounding these infamous women. Featuring mortals and
goddesses alike, from Medusa and Medea to Helen, Euridice,
Aphrodite, Phaedra, Artemis and more, uncover the truth about the
women of the classics.
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw
puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of
art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with
the charming View of Oyster Bay by Tiffany Studios. This 500-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 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for
reference. Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design,
ceramics, enamels, and metalwork but he is best known for his
beautiful stained-glass designs. Using opalescent glass in a
variety of colours and textures, he created a stunning range of
jewel-like Art Nouveau works.
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 a
popular masterpiece of post impressionism, Wheat Field with a Lark
by Van Gogh. 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. In Wheat Field With a Lark
Vincent Van Gogh abandoned his earlier darker palette, replacing it
with light colours and directional brushstrokes to depict the
airiness of a wheat field swaying in a summer's breeze. In the last
years of his life, he painted several landscapes featuring wheat
fields, all of which evoke a range of emotions. In a letter to his
brother he explained his inspiration: 'I am almost certain that
these canvases illustrate what I cannot express in words, that is,
how healthy and reassuring I find the countryside.' His love for
the countryside can be seen in the quick and lyrical execution of
each stroke that makes every flower and wheat sheaf come alive.
While he was not widely accepted in his lifetime, Van Gogh is now
one of the most renowned artists in the world and his incredible
paintings will be for ever admired.
Galison's Cat Zodiac 500 Piece Puzzle features the 12 signs of the
zodiac impurrsonated by illustrated feline friends. Galison puzzles
are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting,
reuse, and storage.
Kakuro is the next hot puzzle craze, and everyone can give it a try
with this new, multilevel series. These language-free number
puzzles use pure logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve.
So, in addition to being fun, they help develop your powers of
deduction and reasoning. Beginners can get started - and more
experienced solvers hone their skills - with these perfectly tiered
"belt" books, each containing 150 kakuros. They take their cue from
the belt colors in martial arts: white is for novices, green for
intermediates, brown for very accomplished players, and black for
those consummate experts who crave a challenge.
Award-winning designer, illustrator, and creative director Michael
Storrings captures a quintessential winter scene in New York City
as people pass by Central Park's famous landmark, The Bethesda
Fountain. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy
boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. An insert of the
full puzzle image is also included. - 1000 pieces - Box Size: 8.25
x 11.25 x 2", 210 x 286 x 51 mm - Puzzle Size: 27 x 20", 686 x 508
mm - Includes Puzzle Insert
A new GIANT collection of our most popular puzzles
Puzzlers, get your pencils ready--"The Everything Giant Book of
Word Searches, Volume V" is here Created by puzzlemaster Charles
Timmerman, this latest collection is packed with more than 300
brand-new word search puzzles that feature fun and engaging themes,
including:
- Literature
- Popular culture
- Nature
- History
- Geography
Get ready to challenge yourself and improve your memory,
vocabulary, and problem-solving skills, all while having fun. This
giant collection is the perfect companion for word search fans who
can't get enough of these entertaining puzzles.
Wild Spirit 500 Piece Puzzle from Galison playfully illustrates 12
animal heads festooned with various beautiful flowers. Galison
puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for
gifting, reuse, and storage. * 500 Pieces, Ribbon Cut * Box: 8 x 8
x 1.5", 203 x 203 x 41mm, Puzzle: 20 x 20", 508 x 508 mm * Includes
Color Puzzle Insert with Puzzle Image * Virtually No Puzzle Dust *
Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper. Packaging contains
70% recycled paper and is made responsibly from FSC-certified
material. Printed with nontoxic inks.
While walking on a hillside, an unusual line occurred to Lewis
Carroll: "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." Carroll later
incorporated the phrase into a complete work that became the
best-known nonsense poem of all time: "The Hunting of the Snark."
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 ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky. - Seven is
certainly an odd number of coats to be wearing. Can you make the
number even by crossing out one letter? - See if you can change one
letter of SNAIL to make a word that describes a sound made by
certain wild animals. Next, try changing the first two letters of
SHARK to one letter and make a four-letter word that describes a
sound made by a certain tame animal. Young Snark-hunters have been
sailing along with that extraordinary sea-going crew in search of a
Snark since the poem was first published a century ago. And Martin
Gardner's Snarkteasers are sure to make their fantastic voyage more
enchanting than ever before. A delightful dividend for Snark fans
is the text of another famous Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky," complete
with Sir John Tenniel's famous drawings.
Phat Dog Vintage scours the earth looking for the unusual and
sometimes weird objects that are undeniably meant to be. Vintage
Library 1000 Piece Puzzle from Galison features a vibrant photo of
old books spines that Phat Dog Vintage has collected from their
travels. This unique puzzle dazzles with pieces that are stamped
with shiny gold foil accents. This puzzle is packaged in stylish
matte-finish sturdy box, also with gold foil accents, perfect for
gifting, reuse, and storage. - Assembled puzzle size: 20 x 27'' -
Box: 8.25 x 11.25 x 2'' - Contains informational insert about
artist and image
This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests
ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to
important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus.
Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin
Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and
informative.
For more than fifty years, the quiz show has thrived on American
television and radio. From "Pot o' Gold" and "The $64,000 Question"
to "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," quiz and game programs have
entertained and informed millions of Americans, promoted and sold
untold quantities of products, generated fortunes for their
creators and producers, and filled the pockets of a multitude of
jackpot winners. In this volume, Thomas DeLong offers the first
in-depth history of quiz and game formats available in print. He
describes how mass communications transformed the old parlor
guessing games into enormously popular features on radio and
television and examines their impact on American society and the
consumer marketplace. DeLong also explores their decline in the
wake of the quiz scandal inquiry of the late 1950s and their
subsequent revival as new shows on daytime TV that began to build
up a loyal following.
"Quiz Craze" is enhanced by the recollections, insights, and
anecdotes of many who brought the quiz show genre to listeners and
viewers. Producers, directors, gamemakers, writers, emcees,
panelists, and advertisers have added their first-hand observations
on the inner workings and widespread influence of quiz show
programming. Former contestants and their families offer
reminiscences from shows such as "To Tell the Truth," "What's My
Line?," "Name That Tune, " and many others. DeLong also draws on
the resources of key organizations in the broadcast field, archival
records, and published media reports to demonstrate the
extraordinary popularity of the game show format.
If you are looking for puzzles that are easy on the eye then Large
Print Sudoku Puzzles is the book for you. Provided in a large and
easy-to-read size, this collection of over 200 puzzles allows you to
work through the challenges at your own pace. Easy, medium, and hard
puzzles broken out into sections. Included instructions for completing
sudokus and answer key at the end of the book. Satisfying, demanding,
and ideal for all sudoku enthusiasts.
Collect more Sudoku, Large-Print puzzle, Crossword, Spot the
Difference, and more puzzle books from Brain Busters and Parragon books!
- OVER 200 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS Hours of
fun and entertainment to enjoy
- UNIQUE CHALLENGES: Designed for the novice,
intermediate, to expert these sudoku puzzles will challenge at every
level. Sudoku helps improve memory and focus. Work on completing a new
puzzle challenge every day!
- LARGE PRINT Large print is easy-to-read and
giant grids make it simple to enter numbers and complete.
- 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 sudoku puzzle book
can go with you.
- BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters
Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for
other books including John Deere Word Search, The Ultimate Book of
Mixed Puzzles, Picture Puzzles, and More!
How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find
out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that
make up this Liverpool quiz book. It s not often that books on
football make reference to the Beatles, Napoleon, Roald Dahl, Moby
Dick, 'The Big Bang Theory', Pete Townshend, Dylan Thomas and The
Band, but this one does! Try these for size: add one letter to a
Liverpool and England international from the 1960s and produce
another Liverpool and England international from this century.
Which Liverpool manager shares his name with a five-time Open golf
champion? The first names of three 21st-century Liverpool players
have won The Derby in 1972, the King George at Ascot in 2011 and
the St. Leger in 2001, who are the three players? You will struggle
to find anything as comprehensive as this eclectic collection. It s
a must for Liverpool fans of all ages and you might not see
anything quite like it again.
A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London
is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the
riddles to escape the pages. The fourth title in this ingenious
series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Tower
of London is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle
book and adventure story. Inspired by the urban craze for escape
rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room,
it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with
codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel
set into the cover. In the latest adventure in the series, readers
will take on the role of the world's foremost consulting detective,
Sherlock Holmes. Holmes's nemesis Moriarty has locked Sherlock's
friend, the musician Odon von Mihalovic, with the CrownJewels in a
cage in Tower Bridge the night before a special ceremony is due to
be held for the Queen. Holmes and Watson are themselves trapped in
the nearby Tower of London by Moriarty, and they must work through
the night and against the clock to find and free Odon from the cage
to prevent him being disgraced in the ceremony the following
morning. Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges,
mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.
They seek them here, they seek them there... THESE COCKS ARE SIMPLY
EVERYWHERE, but can you spot the cock? Only the most astute will
find the one-eyed trouser snakes that have been fiendishly hidden
in every scene of this humorous activity book for adults. It
features a raft of cleverly designed and intricately detailed
full-colour illustrations, each posing a new and formidable
challenge as you hunt for the phallic graphic. The "cock" can be
spotted across a veritable cornucopia of spreads, including these
hilarious scenarios: - Slooshing about among the beans and sausages
in a full English breakfast - Nestled within the New York City
skyline - Battling to be found aboard a Viking warship - Finding
itself launched into outer space - Carefully concealed within a
treasure map Hone your sleuthing skills with this wickedly funny
and ever-so-slightly naughty puzzle book. Spot the Cock is the
perfect gift for anyone who likes a cheeky chuckle.
The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix draws us into the intriguing and
fascinating world of numbers and number theory. "Numbers, you know,
have a mysterious life of their own. It would be naive," claims Dr.
Matrix, "to suppose that there is such a thing as a randomly
arranged group of symbols." Consider, for example, the decimal
expansion of pi. Long considered a random series, it is actually
rich with remarkable patterns. "Correctly interpreted," says Dr.
Matrix, "pi conveys the entire history of the human race." Dr.
Matrix uncovers patterns and signs that will astound you. As Dr.
Matrix demonstrates, we need only look to find clues all around us
in number and language "coincidences" that will unlock the
mysteries of the universe. In The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix,
Martin Gardner introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr. Irving
Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who
ever lived, Dr. Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras.
He was, however, completely unknown to the scientific community
until Gardner wrote about him in Scientific American in 1960. That
first report and the subsequent ones that appeared with each new
encounter are collected here in their entirety. We follow Dr.
Matrix as he roams the world and assumes new identities and
discovers new manifestations of the power of numbers to explain and
predict and entertain. Always at his side is his beautiful Eurasian
daughter, Iva, who abets and protects her father in each new
adventure. As you delve into The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix, you
will master some significant combinatorial mathematics and number
theory. The many remarkable puzzles of Dr. Matrix are all clearly
answered in the back of the book, together with commentary and
references by Gardner to enlighten the uninitiated and entertain
the inquiring reader.
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