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From the bestselling author of 52 Things to Do While You Poo, this nostalgic and amusing mix of trivia and puzzles will bring back the iconic vibe of the Swinging Sixties If you grew up in the 1960s, you know that nothing compares to the music, fashion, toys, TV, films and sheer feel of that decade. But how much can you really remember? When you next take a trip to the toilet, this colourful collection of puzzles, activities and trivia will serve as a leisurely stroll down memory lane, dusting off half-remembered facts and even filling in a few gaps. From bestselling author and fiendish brain-teaser Hugh Jassburn, this illustrated celebration of history's finest decade includes the following challenges and more: Help the Beatles traverse a long and winding maze on their way to Abbey Road Match hit songs to the year they came out Solve trivia questions relating to Dr Who and James Bond Track down the names of iconic world leaders in a word search Spot the differences in a sea of Vespa scooters 52 Things to Do While You Poo: The 1960s Edition is the perfect gift for those who lived through these glory days - or those who just wish they had.
We all know that 'we only use ten per cent of our brain' is a myth, but it is true that giving our brains a workout can really help our day-to-day problem-solving abilities. In Brain Coach Intense, puzzle master Dr Gareth Moore has designed an intensive 40-day training plan to really stretch your mental agility, along with tips and tricks to help you overcome mental strain and increase your brain function and explanations of how the puzzles help your brain. Each day you'll be introduced to a puzzle format and shown how to solve a simple example, before tackling the increasingly devilish variations by yourself. Train your brain and improve and maintain your mental agility with the focused challenges in Brain Coach Intense and see a difference in 40 days.
This title includes 300 puzzles from prolific & popular puzzle & sudoku author - Frank Longo. It takes a page from karate - another Japanese art - each title is graded by colour: White for easy, Green for medium, Brown for hard & Black Belt for the super-tough! All in a handy-sized format, so puzzle lovers can play this addictive game wherever the mood takes them! This title is suitable for confident players only! With a separate sudoku book for every level, all puzzle lovers can play this wildly popular, incredibly addictive game! From prolific and popular puzzle and sudoku author - Frank Longo, it takes a page from karate - another Japanese art - as each title is graded by colour: White Belt for easy, Green Belt for medium level, Brown Belt for hard and Black Belt for the super-tough solvers. And because each book has an amazing 300 puzzles, the fun can go on for hours.
One moment in time on a perfect winter day: this 1000 piece puzzle is packed with a whimsical cast of low-temp characters, unexpected chilly details, and tons of cold-weather action. This richly layered puzzle contains almost every classic reason to love the wintertime, but each with an unexpected twist: a man rolls around in a snowball, Christmas trees sing, a skier goes up instead of down, a fox pours salt on the road. Spanish illustrator Luci Gutierrez brings her love of funny characters and fascinating details to the classic winter scene. A whimsical cataloging of the joy found in outdoors in the winter, and a true celebration of the winter season, this puzzle is sure to provide hours of puzzling fun for the whole family.
The UK's most devious cryptic crossword setters present 120 fiercely challenging puzzles. The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Now you too can test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral thinking against more than 100 classic puzzles specially selected from the Guardian's archives.
Focus your mind and heart with this gratitude puzzle journal. Full of
gratitude practices and exercises, as well as entertaining puzzles,
this journal will help you focus on what's important: being grateful.
With more than 320 puzzles and activities, you'll find gratitude word
searches and word scrambles, mindfulness cryptograms, mazes, adult
coloring pages, journal prompts, monthly gratitude templates for
reflection and goal setting, and blank space for monthly vision boards
one can create by collaging, sketching, or doodling.
Seeking something different to test your crossword skills? Professor Rebus is back with a sixth volume in this best-selling series of perplexing pictogram puzzles! A unique cross between crossword and cryptic visual puzzle, Pitcherwits are the Daily Mail's post popular puzzle, and perfect for crossword fans looking to put their deductive skills to the test! Whether you're looking for a relaxed evening in or setting off on a long commute, Pitcherwits Volume 6 is the ultimate companion.
This collection of more than one hundred original and highly sophisticated puzzles presents challenges that require creative, outside of the box thinking. Many different types of puzzles are included, such as word, number, logical, visual, spatial, dissection, dividing, dot-connecting, matchstick, coin, and more. Each aesthetically appealing puzzle is designed to improve problem solving skills; train geometric, combinatorial, and spatial imagination; bolster visual perception and logical reasoning; and foster the development of a perseverant and self-confident approach to challenges.
Spiroglyphics is even more incredible than anything Thomas has done before. Each oversized design starts its life as a featureless spiral, but as you fill in the lines you find yourself creating a surprising, eye-popping portrait of a wonderful animal. Fun to create and amazing to look at, Spiroglyphics will blow your mind, and make amazing artworks for your wall! In this book, Thomas creates incredible puzzles of animals. Includes: Alpaca Butterfly Cat Dog Duckling Eagle Fox Lion Tiger And many more!
Test your 80s knowledge with this awesome trivia card game! Do you know Boy George from your George Michael? Your Tetris from your Rubik's? Or your mullets from your Jheri curls? Then Best of the 80s: The Ultimate Trivia Challenge is the totally radical card game for you, containing 60 quiz cards spanning categories ranging from 1980s heartthrobs and artists to political figures, popular movies, dance moves and more. Challenge your friends and family to reveal their knowledge and discover who's, like, totally bitchin'!
'Britain's King of Puzzles' Sun A second collection of restful puzzles and brain-training activities, designed to relieve stress and inspire creativity. This book features a wide range of specially selected games to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain. Feel the tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the endorphin-reward buzz as you successfully complete each puzzle. Stimulating your mind with each puzzle also helps unlock your brain's innate creativity, just as sleep and rest can help you reach a breakthrough on pending tasks. This book will help you feel refreshed and renewed, and ready to carry on with your daily life. This is the second in a series of four books by the same bestselling author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book, The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2 and The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 3 with a fourth book to come later in 2020. There is also an ebook, Mindfulness Puzzles for Your Kindle.
When just having a black belt in kakuro isn't enough, step up to the next level! These tricky puzzles require the very best skills - and give top solvers the complete mental workout they want.
The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask
'why...?'. With an introduction from Zoe Ball.
From Anna Marlis Burgard, author of The Beachcomber's Companion: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Identifying Beach Treasures, with illustrations by Jillian Ditner, comes the perfect "companion" puzzle. The Beachcomber's Companion 1000 Piece Puzzle with Shaped Pieces is a gorgeous collage of the world's shells illustrated and identified. This unique puzzle includes puzzle pieces that are die-cut in the shape of the shell! Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage.
* 500-PIECE PUZZLE: Printed on high-quality stock, this full-color puzzle includes 500 printed pieces that showcase iconic crystals. Finished puzzle measures approximately 16 X 20". * BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS: Favorite gems, including rose quartz, Tiger's Eye, lapis lazuli, and more are depicted in brilliant colors on the finished puzzle image. * DELUXE CASE: This puzzle comes housed in a fully-illustrated box (wafer-sealed) for secure storage. * BONUS BOOK: Flip through an informative, 32-page illustrated book (5 X 6") on crystals, including their historic uses, key properties, and incorporation into energetic grids.
Award-winning designer, illustrator, and creative director Michael Storrings captures the magic of the early 20th century jazz scene in New York City. Michael Storrings Jazz Age 1000 Piece Puzzle from Galison is packaged in stylish matte-finish sturdy box, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage.
Who was the Grey Lady of Pevensey Castle? How many pubs are there in Sussex? How long would the Cuckmere be if it were stretched out? Where could you have dined on Pigeons au soleil. What (or who) on earth is the Knucker? How many men did it take to run the Shoreham Oyster Fleet? Who won the Battle of Lewes? How many Lords Lieutenant does it take to run the county? Where are the Mutton Barracks? What's the highest score ever made in one match by Sussex County Cricket Club? For answers to these burning questions, or for a lovely lazy afternoon dipping into an entertainingly quirky mix of local facts, figures, history, statistics and folk tales, turn to the "Sussex Miscellany", a refreshing Schott of Sussex for readers who love local trivia.
This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics, phychology, and mathematical considerations all factor into the definition of the quality of a puzzle.
Delve into the magical world of unicorns in this new illustrated book, filled with questions, facts, jokes and more! Release your inner unicorn with this hilarious new ‘would you rather’ book! Bursting with funny, interactive questions, silly jokes and facts for 6+ kids, this brilliant book will keep the whole family entertained for hours. Would you rather grow sparkly hooves for feet or a flowing unicorn tail? Would you rather fart rainbows for a month or neigh whenever you burp for a week? Laugh-out-loud illustrations bring unicorns to life, and will draw in even the most reluctant readers. In the same series, Christmas Would You Rather (9780008524425) offers some seasonal fun!
Put your Manchester United knowledge to the test with the ultimate quiz book for Red Devils' fans. Do you think you know it all about Manchester United? Could you name the colours the team originally played in? The most decorated player in the club's history? Do you know which sides United have beaten most, and vice versa? Or which foreign countries have supplied the most United players? Whatever your area of interest or depth of knowledge, this expertly assembled quiz will have some testing questions for you. From the club's earliest days right through to the Busby Babes, the glory years under Sir Alex Ferguson and beyond, Think You Know It All? Manchester United will challenge your knowledge of players, managers, records and more. Featuring an entertaining mix of questions and puzzles, this is the perfect test for new and veteran United fans alike. Proving you know it all about your club has never been such fun - or so tricky.
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, featuring Hokusai's The Great Wave. 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 most notable period in Hokusai's artistic life was the latter part of his career, beginning in 1830 when he was 70 years old. He began the series of landscapes he is most famous for: 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji', which included The Great Wave, off Kanagawa, probably his most iconic image.
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