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With these fun mini puzzles, puzzle hobbyists and cat lovers can piece together two cute scenes of cats going cuckoo for catnip! This adorable mini puzzle set includes two designs of cats with catnip. Each itty-bitty jigsaw puzzle is made up of 180 tiny puzzle pieces and forms a 7.5" x 6" finished scene that you can craft-glue together and frame as decoration or simply break apart and start anew!
Acknowledged as the definitive work on modern crosswords, Chambers Crossword Manual is an essential handbook for all crossword fans from beginners to experts. It is packed with practical advice on solving crosswords, as well as many practice crosswords. "Top of the crossword market - magisterial and authoritative" - Colin Dexter "For the novice or the champion, this is the book" - Gyles Brandreth "A truly kaleidoscopic feat" - Susie Dent "I recommend it strongly" - Jonathan Crowther (Azed) "Clever, detailed, and, above all, fun" - Simon Russell Beale "The crossword oracle - witty, wise and indispensable." - Francis When"The outstanding book about crosswords" - Sir Jeremy Morse
Test your powers of deduction against more than 200 devilishly difficult Killer Sudoku puzzles. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of logic. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a difficult mental challenge.
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.
__________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.
* Readers get no clues to what the puzzle is about* They may take hours or even days to work out what is being asked of them* Even after that, some problems may have no solutionThe result - a really challenging book that will fascinate anyone interested in puzzles and recreational mathematicians in particular. This volume contains 36 puz-zles ranging from quite easy to quite difficult.
If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language.; This surprising compendium of 1,000 facts about words, language and etymology is here to inspire your curiosity and delight in discovery. In Word Drops, you can delve into a smattering of unexpected connections and weird juxtapositions, stumble upon a new or remarkable word, or learn of many a bizarre etymological quirk or tall tale.; - Did you know that the bowl made by cupping your hands together is called a gowpen?; - And speaking of bowls, the earliest known reference to bowling in English dates from 1555, when bowling alleys were banned by an Act of Parliament.; - And that ties in nicely with the fact that the English called the Germans 'Alleymen' during the First World War.; - But in Navajo, Germany is called Beesh Bich'ahii Bikeyah-or 'metal cap-wearer land'.; Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just like the example above with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next.; What's more, throughout, footnotes are used to give some informative and intriguing background to some of the most bizarre facts, covering everything from traditional Inuit games to the origin of the Bellini cocktail, from the precise length of one 'jiffy' to what the Romans thought hoopoe birds ate, and from what to expect on a night out with Dr Johnson to Samuel Pepys's cure for a hangover. Want to know the longest palindrome in Morse code, or who The Great Masticator was? Curious to know what Norwegian steam is, or what a jaaaar is? The answers are all here.; For all of the logofascinated among us, this is an immensely pleasurable and unpredictable collection that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows (the literal meaning, incidentally, of supercilious).
A dissection involves cutting a polygon into pieces in such a way that those pieces form another polygon; for a hinged dissection, the pieces must be attached by hinges. A piano hinge is "a long narrow hinge with a pin running the entire length of its joint." So, unlike regular hinged dissections, which swing or twist (around single point of hinge), piano-hinged dissections fold along an edge. This book discusses the history, methods, and variations of these dissections and is rich with illustrations that clearly depict the cuts of the dissections and three-dimensional simulations of the dissections in the process of being folded. The downloadable resources include video recordings of select dissections being transformed accompanies the book.
Take some 'me time' with these aesthetically pleasing puzzles. Embrace tranquility while enjoying this calming collection of wordsearches, created to help you unwind and de-stress. Perfect for both the puzzler-on-the-go or for those who simply want to relax, Mindful Wordsearch contains more than 100 thematic wordsearches. Connect with yourself with this essential puzzling partner.
Artichoke Floral 500 Piece Puzzle features stunning image by famous foodie and photographer Sarah Phillips whose organization Ugly Produce is Beautiful is working hard to educate consumers and reduce massive food waste. With these colorful green artichokes, ruby red tomatoes and purple flowers styled against a contrasting black background, it's easy to see how beautiful food is, even if it appears imperfect in the grocery store. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage.
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!
"New York Times" puzzles are America's favorite!
Enjoy a fun and creative 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring the gorgeous Diamond Quilt from Kaffe Fassett. This colourful and detailed statement piece is perfect for quilters, quilting enthusiasts, and anyone looking to challenge themselves. It's the perfect gift for crafters, and any puzzle lovers in your life.
This book packs hours of solving into a portable paperback with a
flashy, fun cover. So grab a pencil and enjoy 200 of easy to hard
crossword puzzles, chosen from the newspaper. Features: * 200 easy
to hard"New York Times" crosswords* Portable and perfect for
solving on the go
If you think you know a lot about the Civil War, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every battle of the war, commanders and ordinary soldiers, weapons, and armies, this book will test the knowledge of even the most dedicated history buff. Degrees of difficulty range from elementary to questions that even the author had difficulty figuring out, and everything in between: What position did Confederate President Jefferson Davis hold in the federal government prior to the Civil War? Who was the first reputed casualty at Gettysburg? These and many more provocative questions will sharpen the knowledge of Civil enthusiasts everywhere.
The perfect gift for Christmas! Hundreds of hilarious hypothetical questions for anyone aged 6 to 106 who loves princess movies, stories and fairy tales. Would you rather have Harry Styles as your fairy godmother or Ariana Grande? Would you rather be a wayfinder like Moana or an archer like Merida? And would you rather have Rapunzel's hair growing from your armpits or growing from your toes?! The perfect brain-stretcher for anyone bored home alone, off on a long journey or looking for an easy party game, The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Princes and Princesses Edition is guaranteed to provide you with hours of entertainment this Christmas.
Curious about the world around you? Brushing up for Trivia Night? Studying for a test? Looking for new dinner-table discussion topics? Take a deep-dive into subjects you may have learned about in school, but not in the kind of depth you wanted or needed. Entertaining, educational, and full of interesting information, Fun Facts to Engage Students: Questions to Inspire Thinking and Learning includes hundreds of multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions about myriad topics ranging from astronomy to zoology, history to modern technology. Written for all ages and grade levels, Fun Facts to Engage Students takes everyone-from children to seniors, casually curious to trivia buffs-down a path of learning, enrichment, and enlightenment. Special Did You Know facts provide a more detailed look into the topics and leave you thirsting for more.
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.
200 of the easiest New York Times crossword puzzles, perfect for beginners! Another great big volume of easy breezy New York Times crossword puzzles to pass the time. Enjoy the thrill of filling in that last little box! The New York Times Giant Book of Easy Crossword Puzzles features: - 200 Monday and Tuesday puzzles, the easiest crosswords published in The New York Times - Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Big grids for easy solving
Gray Malin The USA Aerials 3-In-1 Puzzle Set from Galison includes three 120 piece puzzles featuring three of Gray's best-selling aerial images of Maine, Chicago and Big Sur. Gray Malin puzzles are the perfect gift for puzzle and fine art photography enthusiasts alike. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. * Exterior Box w/ magnetic closure: 8.75 x 4 x 1.5", 222 x 101 x 38 mm * Three Interior Puzzle Boxes: 2.75 x 3.75 x 1", 70 x 95 x 25 mm * Three 5.5 x 8" Puzzles, 120 pieces each * For 1-3 Puzzlers * Minimal Puzzle Dust
The Forth Rail Bridge is one of the world's great engineering feats, and one of its most well-known. When it opened in 1890, the cantilevered bridge had one of the world's longest spans, at 541 metres. Its distinctive and innovative design marks it as an important milestone in bridge construction during the period when railways came to dominate long-distance land travel. Spanning the estuary of one of the country's great rivers, the Forth Bridge revolutionised travel within Scotland, and it continues to carry and freight more than 130 years after its official opening. This view of the Forth Rail Bridge features the Gresley A4 Class Pacific Plover locomotive and was painted by Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) for British Railways in 1952. Cuneo withstood gales of over 50 mph as he sketched the scene from a girder above the track.
From the creator of the 1000 Dot-to-Dot series comes Querkles: Icons, putting an exciting twist on the classic colour-by-number images that we loved as children. At first, you see nothing but a baffling tangle of circles, but hidden within each puzzle is a famous face waiting to be revealed! Featuring 20 portraits of icons as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Winston Churchill and Elvis, Querkles: Icons provides hours of creative colouring fun for artistic minds of all ages. Choose a dramatic colour scheme to make your Querkle truly unique, discover who's hidden within, and create a striking portrait that you can easily remove and display. |
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