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.

Kakuro is the next hot puzzle craze, and everyone can give it a try with this new, multilevel series. These language-free number puzzles use pure logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve. So, in addition to being fun, they help develop your powers of deduction and reasoning. Beginners can get started - and more experienced solvers hone their skills - with these perfectly tiered "belt" books, each containing 150 kakuros. They take their cue from the belt colors in martial arts: white is for novices, green for intermediates, brown for very accomplished players, and black for those consummate experts who crave a challenge.

Celebrate diverse books and discover new literary finds with this 500-piece puzzle. This 500-piece puzzle features art from Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines book community) and Jane Mount (author of Bibliophile ). With over 60 books colorfully illustrated, this puzzle comes with a handy "Where to Start" reading checklist, so you can be inspired to go on your own literary adventure.

Anne Bentley Love Lives Here 1000 Piece Puzzle from Galison features inspiring artwork and quotes, such as "Be Kind Rain or Shine", "We Go High", "Love Lives Here", and more. - Assembled puzzle size: 20 x 27'' - Box: 8.25 x 11.25 x 2'' - Includes informational insert about artist and image

Gray Malin's awe-inspiring aerial photographs are shot from doorless helicopters, creating stunning celebrations of natural form, color, and repetition. This two-sided puzzle features a majestic mountainside ski-slope and skiers on one side and an array of rainbow hues decorating the crisp white snow of a luxury ski resort on the other side.

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, with the charming Moomin: A Dangerous Journey. 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 Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson was originally published in 1977. Translated by Kingsley Hart, it tells the story of Susanna who finds a pair of magic spectacles that transport her from the field in which she is reading. She finds herself on an adventure filled with swamps, volcanoes , dried-up oceans and jungles that only the young girl's friends from Moominvalley can help her with. The popular characters Sniff, Snufkin and Mo omin all show up, however it is Too-Ticky who is the real hero of the st ory as she is able to use her balloon to finally bring Susanna back home. The beautiful watercolours throughout the picture book use fresh, bright colo urs to create the exciting world of Moominvalley. It is the last of Jansson's picture books, with two others published before it: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My and Who Will Comfort Toffle?

Take a break from the day to think about the good things in life while sharpening your brain. Each puzzle is filled with words sure to bring a smile....from wonders in the garden to the comforts of a cozy kitchen to the delight of a child's laughter. Look up, down, backwrard, forward, and diagonally to discover a treasury of words that will leave you with positive, happy thoughts.

While walking on a hillside, an unusual line occurred to Lewis Carroll: "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." Carroll later incorporated the phrase into a complete work that became the best-known nonsense poem of all time: "The Hunting of the Snark." What could be more of a delight to young readers? Here in one book is Carroll's famed poem with its original illustrations by Henry Holliday, side by side with Martin Gardner's "Snarkteasers" - delightfully puzzling questions like these: - Can you rearrange the letters of OCEAN to spell something in which one can spend days in the ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky. - Seven is certainly an odd number of coats to be wearing. Can you make the number even by crossing out one letter? - See if you can change one letter of SNAIL to make a word that describes a sound made by certain wild animals. Next, try changing the first two letters of SHARK to one letter and make a four-letter word that describes a sound made by a certain tame animal. Young Snark-hunters have been sailing along with that extraordinary sea-going crew in search of a Snark since the poem was first published a century ago. And Martin Gardner's Snarkteasers are sure to make their fantastic voyage more enchanting than ever before. A delightful dividend for Snark fans is the text of another famous Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky," complete with Sir John Tenniel's famous drawings.

Are you ready for the World Cup? It's time to warm up for another roller coaster ride... Calling all footie fanatics! Put your knowledge of the beautiful game to the test with this quiz book, packed full of puzzles, stats and little-known facts. Whether it's chatting to a mate on a pre-match pub trip or to keep calm during a tense half time in front of the TV, every football fan loves a bit of trivia. Use this fact-packed quiz and puzzle book to gen up on World Cup legends such as Ronaldo and Messi and prepare to impress your friends with your fantastic football knowledge. Featuring brain-teasing puzzles, tricky true-or-false questions and hilarious "what happened next?" scenarios, this quiz book is guaranteed to keep you entertained until the final whistle. Have a go at guessing the top ten most expensive football players Discover who scored the worst-ever World Cup own goal Find out which World Cup match saw the same player booked three times Prepare yourself for penalties with stats on perfect shootouts and miserable misses

This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and informative.

How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Liverpool quiz book. It s not often that books on football make reference to the Beatles, Napoleon, Roald Dahl, Moby Dick, 'The Big Bang Theory', Pete Townshend, Dylan Thomas and The Band, but this one does! Try these for size: add one letter to a Liverpool and England international from the 1960s and produce another Liverpool and England international from this century. Which Liverpool manager shares his name with a five-time Open golf champion? The first names of three 21st-century Liverpool players have won The Derby in 1972, the King George at Ascot in 2011 and the St. Leger in 2001, who are the three players? You will struggle to find anything as comprehensive as this eclectic collection. It s a must for Liverpool fans of all ages and you might not see anything quite like it again.

For more than fifty years, the quiz show has thrived on American television and radio. From "Pot o' Gold" and "The $64,000 Question" to "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," quiz and game programs have entertained and informed millions of Americans, promoted and sold untold quantities of products, generated fortunes for their creators and producers, and filled the pockets of a multitude of jackpot winners. In this volume, Thomas DeLong offers the first in-depth history of quiz and game formats available in print. He describes how mass communications transformed the old parlor guessing games into enormously popular features on radio and television and examines their impact on American society and the consumer marketplace. DeLong also explores their decline in the wake of the quiz scandal inquiry of the late 1950s and their subsequent revival as new shows on daytime TV that began to build up a loyal following.

"Quiz Craze" is enhanced by the recollections, insights, and anecdotes of many who brought the quiz show genre to listeners and viewers. Producers, directors, gamemakers, writers, emcees, panelists, and advertisers have added their first-hand observations on the inner workings and widespread influence of quiz show programming. Former contestants and their families offer reminiscences from shows such as "To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?," "Name That Tune, " and many others. DeLong also draws on the resources of key organizations in the broadcast field, archival records, and published media reports to demonstrate the extraordinary popularity of the game show format.

Parkside View 1000 Piece puzzle from Galison captures a birds eye view of a city park, painted with bold colors. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. * 1000 pieces, Ribbon Cut * Box: 8 x 8 x 1.5", 203 x 203 x 41 mm * Puzzle size: 20 x 27", 508 x 685 mm * Includes Puzzle Insert with Puzzle Image * Minimal Puzzle Dust * Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper. Packaging contains 70% recycled paper and is made responsibly from FSC-certified material. Printed with nontoxic inks

The Everything Easy Large-Print Word Search Book, Volume 5 is a must-have collection for the word search solver who prefers larger-print searches! Readers of all ages will enjoy these quick, fun puzzles without straining their eyes. This volume of brand-new puzzles will delight word search fans who can't get enough of these bestselling pencil puzzles.