Discover the blissful transience of joy and cheerfulness with The Puzzle of Happiness. Part of a new 150-piece gradient puzzle series that taps into the mindful, self-care appeal of jigsaws. The beautiful, mesmerising artwork of each little puzzle focuses on a different emotion, with an accompanying essay to help you understand and make sense of these feelings. Other titles in the series include: The Puzzle of Hopefulness, The Puzzle of Calm, The Puzzle of Love and The Puzzle of Ecstasy.

Who doesn't want to escape to the beaches of Southern California or to a cabin deep in the forests of Northern California? Danielle Kroll, author of Pacific Coasting, creates two original illustrations for these fun puzzles. They are must-haves for her fans, for lovers of California and the West Coast, and for anyone who wants to have fun piecing together a stunning puzzle at home, with friends and family, or give one as a gift to those they love. Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 18 7/8 x 26 3/8"

Su Doku For Dummies offers more puzzles than any other book available.

This pocket-sized guide to the biggest craze for Summer 2005 features:

* Easy to follow illustrated instructions

* Guidance on how to play the game and different strategies to tackle the puzzles

* 240 addictive new puzzles from basic to fiendish

This guide is perfect for newcomers to Su Doku as well as experienced Su Doku players looking to improve their game and addicts who just can't get enough new puzzles

Su Doku (or Sudoku) has been dubbed the Rubik's Cube of the 21st century, it's a cryptic and highly addictive puzzle that involves inserting numbers in a 9x9 grid and making sure that every row and every column and every 3x3 box within the bigger grid contains all the digits from one to nine.

All it takes is the ability to identify the numerals 1-9, a sense for logic, a methodical cast of mind and a large measure of application to boot. You can get better and quicker, if you put your mind to it. And there is no predicting who will excel: you can be a disaster at maths and a whiz at Su Doku

Ultimate Sticker Books make learning fun. Packed with 60 full-color, photographic, and self-adhesive stickers, these books are ideal for children to use at home or in school -- and some glow in the dark

* A fresh, colorful take on the classic game of dominoes!

* 28 rainbow wooden game pieces

* The back of each domino is a vibrant rainbow gradient, while the face side has colored dots

* Comes in a deluxe rainbow tin-perfect for gifting

Who doesn't want to escape to the beaches of Southern California or to a cabin deep in the forests of Northern California? Danielle Kroll, author of Pacific Coasting, creates two original illustrations for these fun puzzles. They are must-haves for her fans, for lovers of California and the West Coast, and for anyone who wants to have fun piecing together a stunning puzzle at home, with friends and family, or give one as a gift to those they love. Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 18 7/8 x 26 3/8"

It's spring, and a young bunny's fancy turns to love. And good thing his best friend, the lamb, is there to help him woo his beloved. 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, Easter Greeting is a nineteenth-century chromolithographic postcard imbued with the sweetness and sentimentality that makes Victoriana so appealing. As you piece it together, you might just find yourself in a newly lifted mood, wondering if our innocence isn't irretrievably lost after all. Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 18 7/8 x 26 3/8"

Vasily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944) was one of the great pioneers of abstract art. To him, art was a means of expression in which what one actually sees and what one feels are blended, rather than a phenomenon of perception. 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.

Featuring interviews with the creators of 35 popular video games-including John Madden Football, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, WCW/nWo Revenge, and RBI Baseball-this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the most influential and iconic (and sometimes forgotten) sports video games of all time. Recounting endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers and the uncertainties of public reception, the interviewees reveal the creative processes that produced some of gaming's classic titles.

Key aliens and NPCs from the Dawn of Flame Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Dawn of Flame Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of an alien, NPC, or starship from the Dawn of Flame campaign, including crafty efreet, rebellious soldiers, scheming gangsters, and dozens of unique creatures. The Dawn of Flame Pawn Collection, together with the creatures and characters from the Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box and Starfinder Core Rulebook Pawn Collection, provides pawns for nearly every Dawn of Flame encounter. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Alien Archive Pawn Box, making the pawns easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures.

Bullshit Bingo is the 1-player party game that transforms the BS of everyday life into a party for 1. By encouraging people to gamify real life, the game offers a refreshing reminder not to take life too seriously. It is a bit like therapy, but way less expensive. With 21 tearable and single-use cards, Bullshit Bingo is the perfect companion to life's most generic occasions: weddings, the gym, first dates, vacation, parenting, break-ups, death, turning 30, Hollywood movies - you name it.

PopularMechanics.com selection for one of The Best DIY and Home Improvement Books of 2009 We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies--binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters--troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized, arsenal. Toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for each project, including materials and ammo lists, clear diagrams, and construction tips, for mayhem-loving MacGyvers. The 35 devices include catapults, slingshots, minibombs, darts, and combustion shooters. Build a tiny trebuchet from paper clips and a D-cell battery. Wrap a penny in a string of paper caps to create a surprisingly impressive "bomb." Several of the projects even include variations where combatants mount laser pointer sights to their shooters to increase their accuracy. Finally, once you've built your armory, the author provides plans for a Top Secret Concealing Book to hide your stash, as well as targets for shooting practice. Never let your personal space go undefended again!

This is the perfect gift for those looking to create an exciting experience in their own home! Perfect for playing with your family and friends, this kit contains everything you need to create five intricate escape rooms in your living room. Enter the world of The Wexell Escape Room Kit, but beware... you only have a limited time to solve the puzzles before the seconds runs out and you are locked in forever! Written by an experienced escape room creator, this kit contains five rooms for you to unravel. You must help Adam Parkinson, a young investigative journalist, and his conspiracy-theorist friend Henry Fielding as they take on the diabolical Wexell Corporation. As you decipher the puzzles in each room, an escape route will be revealed and a new location uncovered for you to explore. The story spans from Adam's apartment in London to an ancient ruin buried under a Spanish city... and beyond.

Soar above a planet of adventure! The trail of a long-vanished ally leads to the other side of a magical portal called the Doorway to the Red Star. The heroes must earn the trust of the portal's guardians then travel through it-to another planet of red sands and high adventure! Working to gain allies among scholarly brain-people and shifty ratfolk, the heroes must infiltrate a massive airship and fight to free their ally from an insidious trap on an alien world! "Doorway to the Red Star" is a Pathfinder adventure for four 15th-level characters. This adventure continues the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes rise from humble magic academy students to become influential teachers, and ultimately decide the fate of the Magaambya. This adventure also details people, places, and monsters of Akiton, the Red Planet, a fabulous setting for sword-and-sorcery escapades! Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.

Whether your party is at the mercy of deadly rapids or is headed toward a plummet over a crushing waterfall, no Game Master wants to slow the action down by drawing every river bend and jagged rock. Fortunately, you don't have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Whether the heroes are in flight or pursuit, this double-sided combat map features rapids, rocky bends, misty falls, and ambush spots aplenty! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Falls & Rapids, you'll be ready next time your players find themselves up the river without a paddle! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy-simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy cleanup is just a Flip away?

Most popular Russian puzzle book ever published. Marvelously varied puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Lavishly illustrated with clear diagrams and amusing sketches. Edited for English-readers, while retaining warmth and charm of original. Inexpensive edition of first English translation. Introduction by Martin Gardner. 425 line illustrations. Solutions.

Wet weekend? Home for half-term? Great Family Days In has got you covered with over 75 tried and tested activities that make the most of spending quality time together.

From Achievable Art and Whizzy Easy Science to Screen-Free Game Time, chapters are organized to help you easily find inspiration for activities that will fill your day with fun. Whether you’re creating your very own melted-crayon masterpiece or blizzard bottle, or conducting your first FamFest or mini Olympics, Great Family Days In is a one-stop shop for ideas, showing that you don’t need fancy plans or money to keep your family entertained at home.

These beautifully illustrated activities do not require any specific skills or hard to get resources. From thirty-minute time-fillers to ideas to last the whole afternoon, activities can easily be adapted to suit any age, interest or timescale, making it easy to enjoy and relax into the process of creating and building memories together, whatever the outcome.

In March 2020, Claire Balkind, also known as The What Now Mum, founded of the hugely popular Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas Facebook page which quickly amassed an engaged following of more than a million people. There, she and the community she helped build share fuss-free games, crafts, challenges and more that will keep children and adults of all ages entertained.

This highly addictive party game may seem easy-until the blindfold goes down and the competition ramps up! The rules of this hilarious new party game are simple: using a shared piece of paper, write a word, draw a shape around it, and then manipulate the paper (through folding, unfolding, flipping, and tearing) to ensure that only your words are visible during scoring. Easy, right? Now try it blindfolded! This hysterical game for 2-6 players will challenge memory, spatial reasoning, and your friends' trustworthiness as an easy-to-learn premise becomes a complex game of strategy and surprise, as well as a chance to giggle at your friends' and family's mistakes-until it's your turn to put the blindfold on! * Think you can write a word, draw a shape around it, and fold, unfold, flip, or tear the paper while keeping your words visible? Now try it blindfolded! * In this highly addictive party game for 2-6 players, an easy-to-learn premise becomes a complex game of strategy and surprise. * The rules take 5 minutes to learn, but changing dynamics mean that no two games ever play the same twice. Even a confident player may find themselves misspelling their word or misjudging the paper, with hilarious and unexpected results! You'll want to play again and again-to try and do better next time! * Play this game anywhere, at home or on the go. You can even change the paper for an extra challenge! (See how far you get playing on a receipt!) * For players young and old, BlindFold can sharpen strategy, memory, and spatial reasoning skills. Can you remember which of your words are under which folds, or how another players' can be torn off without touching your own, when the blindfold goes down? * INCLUDES: 6 blindfolds, 6 colored pencils, 30 cards, and sheets of paper. * FOR: 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up, plays in approximately 30 minutes. Perfect for: * Party gamers, casual gamers, families, any anyone looking for a simple party game with lots of opportunities to laugh. * Fans of Telestrations, Pictionary and Pictomania.

'I adore Sydney's approach to play... good for our planet, and good for our souls too.' - Daisy Upton, author of Five Minute Mum 'For some serious playtime inspiration follow Sydney Piercey. She does it with zero fuss or show off. She is just brilliant'. - Clover Stroud Parenting blogger and mother-of-three, Sydney Piercey, gained traction online with her environmentally friendly DIY toys made entirely out of cardboard. Filled with 60+ creative, accessible and plastic-free projects and play ideas, Sustainable Play is packed with crafts and games to enjoy with your children on slow, rainy or drawbridge days at home. Sydney provides you with budget-friendly, easy-to-follow ideas to play and create in this handbook, inspired by her family's love of the simple things. From step-by-step projects to create magical toys from your leftover cereal boxes to joy-filled games using everyday objects from around your home, Sustainable Play will equip you with the inspiration you need to entertain your children in a creative, stimulating and sustainable way - being kind to the planet in the process.

Bring the fun of horseshoes indoors with this miniature desktop version of the classic game!

Kit includes:

• Mini plastic pit with metal stake
• 4 metal horseshoes
• bag of sand
• Illustrated mini book that will help you become a horseshoe pitching champ in no time

Bored of the same old dinner-party chitchat? Spice up your soirees, impress your guests and show up your brother-in-law with these hilarious, and sometimes dangerous, after-dinner tricks and challenges. Twenty-one handsome cards presented in a beautiful gift tin illustrate each technique along with step-by-step instructions and explanations of the science behind the tricks. From sabering a bottle of champagne to hammering a needle through a coin, each of these tricks is guaranteed to wow your guests.

Stash those watering cans and get your green thumbs ready to win the whole nursery by playing Plant Bingo! Houseplants have the power to transform any room, or game. From Swiss cheese plant and Bunny ears cactus to Elkhorn ferns and Spanish moss, Plant Bingo features all the classics, with no care required. Gather your friends and decide, once and for all, who will be crowned the true ruler of the indoor jungle. With 8 doubled-sided randomized bingo cards, and 48 tokens that features a different plant, this game can keep you and your friends playing all night long. (This box set includes more detailed instructions on how to play.)

Whether you're looking to play against friends or co-workers, this kit serves as the perfect pastime or office distraction! Kit includes two raised platforms, eight bean bags, and a 32-page illustrated book on the popular bean bag game.