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Piece together this collage of New York with this 500 piece puzzle from Galison, featuring photographs by the talented Nichole Robertson. - Package: 8 x 8 x 2" - Complete puzzle: 20 x 20" - Includes insert with information about the artist and image
Murder Most Puzzling is a gorgeous and witty book that invites readers
to play detective and solve a series of absorbing,
murder-mystery-themed puzzles.
Mathematical play has challenged and stimulated human ingenuity throughout recorded history. It has ranged from the common sorts of brain teasers such as mazes, arithmetic story problems, and simple geometric puzzles to sophisticated explorations of questions that still concern modern mathematical theorists. This new dictionary provides a tantalizing variety of paradoxes, games, problems, and puzzles that will appeal to mathematics enthusiasts at every level of proficiency. Eiss introduces his subject with an overview of the history of recreational mathematics and its relation to some theoretical questions that have occupied mathematicians for centuries. Dictionary entries include problems posed by particular thinkers as well as traditional puzzlers that have come down to us anonymously. Information on the origins and history of many of the activities is supplied, and thorough cross-referencing enables the reader to locate all puzzles, games, and amusements of a similar type. The bibliography suggest sources of further information.
Trina Turk Multi Puzzle Set by Galison includes three 250 piece puzzles featuring Trina Turk's colorful op-art prints, creating a challenging and fun puzzle experience. When completed, turn these puzzles into a framed triptych! * Box: 9.25 x 7 x 2", 235 x 178 x 51 mm * Set of Three 250 Piece Puzzles * Puzzle Size: 8.5 x 15", 220 x 380 mm * Color-coded on reverse for sorting * Includes 3 Puzzle Inserts
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes. Can you decipher the code of a long-lost civilization? Or solve riddles in runes? Or will you get lost in translation? Crossing continents and borders, bestselling puzzle author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world’s best conundrums that celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture, all while testing your deduction, intuition and street smarts.
The Frank Lloyd Wright City by the Sea 1000 Piece Foil Puzzle introduces a new flavor to an iconic series of art. The foil combined with Wright's striking image will bring joy and relaxation to amateur and pro puzzlers alike. * 1000 pieces with foil accents * Box Size: 8.4 x 11.4 x 1.7", 286 x 210 x 51 mm * Puzzle Size: 27 x 20", 508 x 686 mm * Includes Puzzle Insert * Minimal puzzle dust
From the Berkshire Pig to the Warty Pig to the Vietnamese Potbelly Pig, Pigology is a delightful (and educational!) puzzle for anyone who appreciates the appeal of this classic barnyard staple. From baby piglets to enormous hogs, this lively puzzle, with content drawn from Pigology (F21), is a charming and vibrant celebration of our porcine friends. Everyone young and old: nature- and animal-loving young readers, pig enthusiasts, pig farmers, and pet pig owners alike will go hog-wild to for this endearing tableau of more than 60 adorable swine.
Green City 1000 Piece Round Puzzle from Galison captures the small actions people can take to ensure we are protecting our planet. Perfect for Earth Day! Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. * 1000 pieces, Ribbon Cut * Box: 9 x 9 x 2", 229 x 229 x 51mm * Puzzle size: 25" diameter, 635mm diameter * Includes Puzzle Insert with Puzzle Image * Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper. Packaging contains 70% recycled paper and is made responsibly from FSC-certified material. Printed with nontoxic inks
From Kerby Rosanes, the internationally bestselling artist who brought you the Morphia series, the next book in his brilliant new Worlds universe. Mythic World is 96 double-sided pages of pure mythical creation that colorists will love. Welcome to Kerby's mythic world. Mythic World is a new, fantastic, and super-detailed adult coloring book from the prodigious bestselling illustrator. Colorists will find Kerby Rosanes's new creations to be hypnotic, with spread after dizzying spread featuring mythic creatures, magical landscapes, and surprise after surprise in the details of Kerby's ultra-fine illustrations. This book blurs the line between familiar and magical, between reality and imagination. Fans and newcomers alike will be thrilled with this 96-page book, providing an apparently endless coloring challenge for even his most dedicated and enthusiastic followers.
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.
More sexy fun from "Cosmo," in the same fabulous format you loved
in "Cosmo's Steamy Sex Games." This naughty spin on the classic
Truth or Dare game features 120 enticing cards in a box; you and
your sweetie simply take turns picking from the deck and choosing a
spicy "Truth" or an edgy "Dare." Truth: What is the strangest thing
that has ever turned you on?
Brains will feel the burn with this fantastic puzzle book that stretches and flexes the mind. For more than 40 years, millions of newspaper readers have delighted in solving the daily Jumble(R), which appears in hundreds of national papers and in these puzzle books that offer hours of challenging wordplay and fun. Each page features a series of mixed-up words coupled with a cartoon clue, and one letter from each word is used to form the answer to the puzzle.
Puzzle enthusiasts will be mystified by this new collection of magical Jumble puzzles. For more than 40 years, millions of newspaper readers have delighted in solving the daily Jumble(R), which appears in hundreds of national papers and in these puzzle books that offer hours of challenging wordplay and fun. Each page features a series of mixed-up words coupled with a cartoon clue, and one letter from each word is used to form the answer to the puzzle.
Strictly for grown-ups! This saucy selection of puzzles puts the tease in brain-teasers, and makes a racy replacement for life's idle moments Put down your phone, tablet or smutty magazine and pick up this crude collection of conundrums and provocative puzzles. Whether you want to dive straight into the Bootylicious Bottoms Word Search, test your logic with a Raunchy Riddler, or even try your hand at the Sex Toys Sudoku, there are puzzles here to tickle a whole range of fancies. Inside you will find a variety of juicy puzzles, including these: Shuffle the letters of anagrams to identify seriously smutty lingo Pair up the matching icons in the playful picture puzzles Test your knowledge of everything erotic with a range of titillating trivia Join up the dot-to-dots to discover some sensual sex positions So, what are you waiting for? If you like the idea of puzzles that are a bit more naughty than they are nice, this is the perfect book for you.
1000-PIECE JIGSAW - Piece together the world of 20th-century Harlem and fill the gaps in your knowledge as you go with a comprehensive poster guide AUTHORITATIVE TEXT - Text by Professor Davarian L. Baldwin, urbanist, historian and cultural critic THE PERFECT GIFT - Die-cut pieces, sturdy box, and illustrated poster for maximum gift appeal AMAZING ARTWORK - Noa Denmon's intricately drawn cityscape is bursting with minute detail GOOD SIZE - Completed puzzle measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) Step back in history to one of New York's most vibrant moments in this jigsaw puzzle abuzz with the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in Harlem in the first decades of the twentieth century, the puzzle includes such famous names as Langston Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Gladys Bentley. From fine artists and musicians to novelists, poets, and thinkers, The World of the Harlem Renaissance is a who's who of people who laid the foundations of New York culture in the twentieth century...
The ideal gift for su doku enthusiasts. If you like to live dangerously and push beyond your mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times' toughest Ultimate Killer puzzles. A bumper collection of more than 360 puzzles for hard-core solvers. Selected from The Times these puzzles will challenge the sharpest minds. Includes Deadly-level Killer puzzles, and Extra Deadly, to really test your limits: this is the only place you'll find such a torturous collection in a single book. These puzzles are not for the fainthearted, they use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku, and have an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the digits 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well. But unlike with previous books, there is no chance to ease yourself in with Easy, or even Tough puzzles: this book is the Ultimate Killer Su Doku - completely deadly. Puzzles in this collection are taken from Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku Books 5, 6 and 7.
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring National Gallery: Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers. 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. Van Gogh painted a series of pictures depicting sunflowers, having first been inspired by the yellow flowers in Paris when he saw them growing in the gardens of Montmartre. Sunflowers were symbolic of life and hope to the artist, and could also be associated with his concept of the sun - glowing, yellow and hopeful. |
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