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Many people struggle with their powers of recall at some point in their lives, and in this innovative book Dr Gareth Moore has developed a programme of techniques, exercises and tips that will help you ensure that your memory never lets you down again. With exercises that target specific issues as well as general-purpose memory workouts, The Memory Coach is packed with information and strategies for use in everyday life, while also providing a guided plan for progression that continues to build upon the techniques you have already covered on previous days. Along with the exercises themselves you'll find plenty of information on what the exercises are actually doing for you and why they are important in maintaining memory function. From remembering PIN numbers to public speaking, and from acronyms to memory palaces, The Memory Coach will help you to train your memory and keep it sharper, more focused, bigger and better - all in 40 days.
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.
Challenge your brain with these enjoyable puzzles. 100 puzzles from The Times adapting the cryptic puzzle for those with a hectic lifestyle and schedule. Ideal for those starting out with cryptic crosswords, and those who'd like to tackle the main puzzle but feel daunted, or who can perhaps only solve a handful of clues. Appearing Monday to Friday in the puzzle pages of Times2, this crossword has a reduced 13x13 grid size and reduced difficulty too, the intention being to encourage people to take their first steps in tackling cryptic crosswords. And also to cater for those of us who have limited time to devote to our favourite pastime and need a ready-made set of puzzles that are solvable in a short space of time.
Let hosts Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman guide you through the quiz rounds with their trademark warmth and humour and battle it out against your friends and family for Pointless glory. Perfect for playing along alone or with family and friends, The Very Pointless Quiz Book will test your knowledge and tease your brains. So how good are you at Pointless? Really? Do you think you've got enough in-depth knowledge of Regional Railways, African Countries With No Coastline and Types of Lettuce to carry off the coveted Pointless trophy? Well let's see shall we? Here's your chance to step up to the podium (metaphorically speaking of course, chances are you'll be sitting somewhere very comfortably with either a mug of tea or a roll of Andrex within easy reach) put that knowledge to the test, and see just how far you can go in a genuine four-round Pointless ordeal. Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless...
Roaring from the rear, belching from behind, tooting the trouser trumpet - whatever you call it, we all fart, some of us more than others (and some a lot more than others). Everyone knows a committed farter - with their knowing smile, never shying away from taking full responsibility. Give them the recognition they deserve: a book celebrating their greatest skill, full of activities and puzzles to keep them engrossed, along with fascinating fart facts that'll blow their mind.
This is the perfect book for fans of Journal 29, and those who want to re-create an exciting escape-room experience in their own home! Escape Room Puzzles is perfect for reading with your family and friends, and it contains ten intricate escape rooms to solve in your living room. Become Adam Parkinson, a young investigative journalist, and join his conspiracy-theorist friend Henry Fielding as they take on the diabolical Wexell Corporation. You must guide Adam through ten precarious rooms, solving the puzzles he finds in each one, discovering what Wexell are up to, and then escaping to the next location. Written by an expert escape room creator, Escape Room Puzzles can be enjoyed either on your own or played as a group. The story takes you from Adam's apartment in London to an ancient ruin buried under a Spanish city... and beyond. There are a wide variety of puzzle types, including traditional puzzles on the page and more interactive puzzles that involve paper-crafting.
Many people start the day with physical exercise but few seem to be so concerned with exercising the most human of organs-the brain. This book provides you with entertaining and challenging mental exercises for every week of the year. Whether you are a high school student eager to sharpen your brain, or someone older who would like to retain your mental agility, you will find your brain getting sharper and more agile as you solve the puzzles in this book. Read a few puzzles every week, think about them, solve them, and you will see the results. And on the way to a sharper mind, you will enjoy every step.
The Simplex Crossword formula has been hugely successful and made bestsellers of all six books. Appearing daily in the Irish Times for over forty years, the crossword has attracted a devoted following. Simplex 1 contains: 60 Simplex crosswords Space for recording time taken Scribble space 60 solutions
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.
Foreword by Alexander Armstrong. Think you know classical music? It's time to put your knowledge to the test with this collection of questions and puzzles designed to challenge, to entertain - and to educate. Blending together basic trivia, complex wordplay and a range of visual teasers, the book calls on the knowledge of the Classic FM experts to provide hours of music-themed challenges. With difficulty levels varying from pleasantly tricky to fiendishly hard, The Classic FM Puzzle Book will entertain from the first bar until the very last note.
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.
Over 200 puzzles from the UK's leading crossword experts. From the Guardian comes this brand-new collection of quick crosswords, the third volume in the popular series. With a vast range of clues from a wide variety of subjects, these crosswords will sharpen your vocabulary and stretch your mind, but are short enough to be solved during breaks in the day.
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.
Solving word search puzzles should tax your mind, not your eyes. Luckily, puzzlesmith Mark Danna has provided plenty of word search challenges with large type for your enjoyment. The letters in the grid are large, and so are the letters in the word lists, so if you still can't find a word, it won't be because you couldn't read it. Get "Large Print Word Search Puzzles 2" - and see what you've been missing.
The first title in a relaunch of the best-selling bumper quick crossword series from the Telegraph, new for 2017. Entertaining, brain-teasing and utterly addictive, there are over 300 puzzles here for veteran puzzle enthusiasts and crossword novices alike.
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