What is the origin of the word ‘bluetooth’? Which UK football ground is flanked by Bloemfontein & South Africa roads? When walking round Rondebosch Common, why is it wise not to go widdershins?

These are a few of the questions put to John Maytham by 567 CapeTalk listeners in the Rapid Fire insert on the late drive-time show. Join him on a tour of the oddest, arcane and most surprising questions – and be tickled by the weird and wonderful answers.

Dig for dinosaur fossils and discover the hidden secrets of the Jurassic world! Crack each rock with the chisel and dusting brush to reveal two roar-some discoveries. Learn about the fascinating world of dinosaurs as you explore the fun facts, history and intriguing reasons for their existence in the 48-page book.

Enjoy the thrill of making your own dinosaur discoveries as you embark on your very own paleontology dig!

Dig for lost treasures and discover the hidden secrets of Ancient Egypt! Crack each rock with the chisel and dusting brush to reveal two intriguing Egyptian artifacts. Learn about the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt as you explore the fun facts and history of their civilisation in the 48-page book.

Enjoy the thrill of making your own discoveries as you embark on your very own archaeological dig!

Carbon City Zero is a collaborative climate action game in which players develop a sustainable city by greening transport, transforming industries, getting citizens on board and showing world leaders how it’s done.

Each player starts with an identical deck, buying additional cards from a shared marketplace to create a more sustainable city. Balancing the need to generate income with reducing carbon, you can follow numerous paths to victory, but collaboration is key. You’ll need to bring together governments, industries and the public. And if you can’t bring carbon levels to zero before it’s too late, everybody loses. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

PLAY AND LEARN: learn about climate action as you play this new board game for all the family

SCREEN-FREE FUN for 2-4 players aged 8 and up

SOMETHING TO TREASURE: this is a quality product made to last, with bespoke illustration and stylish packaging (on FSC stocks)

Play a game of chess with this officially licensed miniature replica of the life-sized chessboard from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone—perfect for fans of the Wizarding World!

Specifications: This deluxe set includes 32 chess pieces, modeled in detail after the pieces in the film, measuring about 1" to 1-1/2" in height depending on the piece. Also includes a collapsible 8-1/2 x 8-1/2" chess board
Authentic replica: This replica is based on the iconic enchanted chessboard from the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone film
Book included: A 40-page 2-1/2 x 3" book features information about the game, behind-the-scenes information from the film, full-color photos from the film, and instructions for playing
Perfect present: A unique gift for fans of the Wizarding World
Officially licensed: Authentic collectible

Learn chess from International Master and YouTube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in this refreshing and fun guide for beginner and intermediate players

How to Win at Chess teaches you everything you need to know about the game, including all the important moves and strategies to start off strong and keep you thinking several steps ahead.

Full of Levy Rozman's signature charm and humour that have made him beloved by millions of fans, the first half of this unique guide introduces rising players (0-800 Elo rating) to the four key areas to consider when playing chess-openings, endings, tactics, and strategy-and the second half builds upon these core skills for more experienced players (800-1300 Elo rating). Brimming with practical and easy-to-follow tips for improving your game, How to Win at Chess includes over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations to help you better visualize the board, as well as chapter-specific QR codes for exclusive bonus content on Chessly, Rozman's teaching platform.

Whether you want to become a recreational chess player or are training to be a Grandmaster, How to Win at Chess is the perfect interactive introduction to the world of chess.

More than 200 word search puzzles are based on birds and their habitats and habits, from all around the world. From hummingbirds to ostriches, parrots to penguins, backyard and pro birders will love word puzzles featuring our feathered friends! Interesting and fun fact is included with every puzzle.

Bird names, features, and facts are approved by Smithsonian experts. Great gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, hospital stays, and anyone who loves puzzles to keep a sharp mind.

Read interesting facts along the way. Word lists include easy, moderate, and challenging searches. Keep your brain fit by and test your word-finding skills searching vertically, diagonally, forwards, and backward in pursuit of hidden words.

This collection contains a fantastic variety of puzzles to satisfy beginner and expert puzzlers alike and offers a much-needed brain boost for hours of entertainment. Help improve memory and focus by completing a new find-the-word challenge every day, with a variety of unique themed word searches with this Smithsonian Word Seach Book!

Mindbogglers Gold 1500-piece puzzles feature high-quality images accented with stunning gold highlights, applied with painstaking precision, to create an image of exquisite beauty.

More than your average jigsaw, this stunning reproduction of Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece The Starry Night has been carefully selected for its detail, composition and quality, and is great fun to put together on your own or with family and friends.

Verkies jy blokraaie waar die leidrade binne of buite die raaisel staan, koderaaisels of sudoku?

Die Groot Afrikaanse Blokraaiboek bevat dit alles! Hierdie versameling bevat meer as 200 van die beste blokraaisels en ander speletjies wat in Media24 se gewilde tydskrifte soos Sarie, Weg, Tuis en Landbou-weekblad verskyn het.

Dit beloof om jou ure lank te vermaak en uit te daag. Dit is boonop die perfekte geskenk vir enige blokraaiverslaafde.

The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy. Quiz your family and friends with this Space Quiz Book from National Geographic Kids, bursting with questions that will keep everyone guessing and give you hours of fun. How many moons does Mercury have? How long is a day on Venus? What gives Mars its reddish colour? 300 questions on everything from planets and moons to comets, stars, black holes and lots more Brimming with multiple choice and true or false questions Fact-filled answers come with every quiz so you can brush up on your knowledge too Are you up to the challenge?

Perfect for those who enjoy the creative and meditative pastimes of arts and crafts, Metallic Rock Painting will teach you how to create eye-catching works of art that will stylishly shine and glimmer.

Join author and mandala-stone artist Katie Cameron as she guides you step-by-step through the process of making eight luminous metallic designs, providing tips, tricks and handy hints along the way that will allow you to dot, paint, and create shiny rock artwork like a pro.

Taking inspiration from the wondrous lustre of metallic paint, Katie’s original designs will delight all who see them. From the simple but stunning Bubble design, to the gorgeous Dragon Egg, to the intricate and phenomenal Enchanted Urchin Amulet, these creations will be ideal for displaying in your home or garden, or making a spectacular gift for a loved one.

With step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs for every design, you will be creating your own radiant works of art in no time. What's Included:

- 24-page book

- 4 large river stones

- 4 metallic paints

- 1 black paint

- 1 paint brush

- 1 dotting tool

The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy. Quiz your family and friends with this World Quiz Book from National Geographic Kids, bursting with questions that will keep everyone guessing and give you hours of fun. What are the names of the seven continents? How much of the planet's surface is covered by seawater? Where is the tallest building in the world? 300 questions on everything from volcanoes and earthquakes to capital cities, world wonders, food,sport and lots more Brimming with multiple choice and true or false questions Fact-filled answers come with every quiz so you can brush up on your knowledge too Are you up to the challenge?

PLAY AND LEARN: learn about bees and biodiversity as you play this family strategy game for age 6+, based on traditional Mancala

SCREEN-FREE FUN for two players aged 6 and up

SOMETHING TO TREASURE: this is a quality product made to last, with bespoke illustration and sleek and stylish packaging

EXPLORE THE ENTIRE SERIES: this game is one of our nature games, others include Bird Bingo, I Saw It First! Ocean, Match a Leaf, Under the Sea

LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING has been capturing imaginations and inspiring creativity in new and unexpected ways for over 30 years, with playful and eye-catching games, gifts and books

Buzz the bees to the flowers to collect pollen and then back to the hive to make honey for feeding and growing your very own bee colony. The player with the largest colony wins! Based on the ancient gameplay of mancala, Beehive Mancala is a fun strategy game for adults and children aged 6+. Includes facts about the bees and flowers featured, plus details on the honey-making process and the importance of bees from the beekeeper at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Keep Your Mind Fit and Flexible Research has shown that a great way to keep your memory and cognitive skills at their best is to learn challenging new things that require you to think. This puzzle book is perfect for doing just that, since it features a wide variety of IQ-type brainteasers to keep solvers on their toes: different types of word games, memory tests, logic puzzles, and math problems, with something new on every page. It's a refreshingly fun mental workout!

Laugh-out-loud jokes for guaranteed family fun! Have fun with family and friends with this hilarious joke book. What time to ducks wake up in the morning? At the quack of dawn! What do you call an alligator that solves mysteries? An investigator! Bursting with 300 side-splittingly funny jokes and amazing facts all about animals, it is sure to raise a chuckle with animal fans of all ages!

The mid-level collection of a new trio of easy, medium, and hard crossword puzzle books from The New York Times, edited by Will Shortz If you crave the pun-filled wordplay that comes with the New York Times' tricky Wednesday and Thursday puzzles, you've met your match with this collection of 200 medium-level crosswords. - 200 not-too-easy, not-too-hard puzzles from the Times - Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient portable paperback size for on-the-go solvi

A brand-new collection of New York Times MINI crossword puzzles, with a stunning holiday-themed cover! Only got a minute of free time? That's all you need to complete a New York Times mini crossword puzzle! Conveniently pint-sized and easy to solve, these charming minis are too cute for any puzzler to resist. - 150 easy mini puzzles - Portable size for on-the-go solving - Available in print for the first time

Silly scenarios and questions for guaranteed family fun! Have fun with family and friends with this interactive game book, bursting with 200 side-splittingly funny scenarios, silly choices and thought-provoking questions all about animals. With no right or wrong answers, it’s the game that everyone will enjoy! Would you rather have fur or scales? A mighty roar or a deadly snap? Fly high like a vulture or dive deep like a whale? Jam-packed with brain-busting animal facts and tons of colourful photos it is sure to get conversations going and bring out some hilarious answers!

A wonderfully stimulating collection of quizzes and puzzles based on the richly imaginative world of Thomas Hardy's six best-loved novels.

This Hardy-themed quiz book includes: crosswords based on love, song and dance and architecture; anagrams concealing the names of some of Hardy’s rustic characters; and wordsearches hiding the names of romantic protagonists.

Quizzes test your memory of his six best-loved novels: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Each quiz explores a different aspect - from proposals, faces and inns to relations, food and drink.

Hardy’s famous invented place-names feature in the Wessex Words puzzles and two mazes, ‘Jude’s Journey’ and ‘In the Footsteps of Tess’.

Included inside are charming line drawings from Donald Maxwell's The Landscape of Thomas Hardy, published in 1928, the year of Hardy’s death. The artist discussed the views his drawings depict with Hardy himself. The cover shows a wood engraving by English artist Vivien Massie Gribble, created for a 1926 edition of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy. Quiz your family and friends with this Animal Quiz Book from National Geographic Kids, bursting with questions that will keep everyone guessing and give you hours of fun. What is the largest fish in the world? Which animal has the strongest bite? What makes a hermit crab unusual? 300 questions on everything from sharks and whales to gorillas, koalas, parrots, bees and lots more Brimming with multiple choice and true or false questions Fact-filled answers come with every quiz so you can brush up on your knowledge too Are you up to the challenge?

Silly scenarios and questions for guaranteed family fun! Have fun with family and friends with this interactive game book, bursting with 200 side-splittingly funny scenarios, silly choices and thought-provoking questions all about the world. With no right or wrong answers, it's the game that everyone will enjoy! Would you rather travel by gondola or toboggan? Do the salsa or the Highland fling? Eat the world's stinkiest fruit or the hottest chilli? Jam-packed with brain-busting facts and tons of colourful photos it is sure to get conversations going and bring out some hilarious answers!

An ingenious and charming little book, inspired by the plays of the inimitable William Shakespeare, filled with quizzes and puzzles to test your knowledge and refresh your memory.

Inspired by the plays of the inimitable William Shakespeare, the quizzes and puzzles in this ingenious little book are designed to test your knowledge and refresh your memory.

The focus is on familiar passages – it is always a pleasure to come across what is known, and loved – but there is also plenty here to test the most knowledgeable.

Each crossword is based on an individual play, with every clue being a quotation from that play. Some of the quizzes are composed of quotations with a missing word, while others ask questions on a variety of topics in the plays. Each name game is based on the dramatis personae of a particular play and each wordsearch has a theme: heroes, heroines, place names and fools and fairies.

‘Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how,’ Jane Austen wrote. ‘It is part of every Englishman’s constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.’

Let this charming little book put that claim to the test.

Craving some puzzle time but always on the go? No problem! Just Take It With You! This Monday volume of the new Take It With You series features 200 of the week's easiest New York Times crossword puzzles. Each page is removable, so you can sit back and solve wherever you go. Features: - 200 easy Monday puzzles - Perforated pages and convenient travel size - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes, and be part of immersive, imaginative tales as they unfold. More so, in Thom James Carter’s opinion, it’s a perfect vessel for queer exploration and joy. Journey on, adventurer, as Dungeon Master Thom invites readers into the game’s exciting queer, utopian possibilities, traversing its history and contemporary evolution, the queer potential resting within gameplay, the homebrewers making it their own, stories from fellow players, and the power to explore and examine identity and how people want to lead their lives in real and imagined worlds alike. Grab a sword and get your dice at the ready, this queer adventure is about to begin. (This book is unofficial and unaffiliated with properties Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons.)