![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Puzzles & quizzes
You've watched the show. You've marvelled at the jaw-dropping genius of the mini Mensa minds. You've seen the parents biting their nails from the sidelines. Well, now it's your turn to take your place on the podium and discover once and for all: will YOU make the cut and be crowned Child Genius? Are You Smarter Than Your Kid? is the Child Genius family test book you've been waiting for. Go head to head with your children, nieces and nephews to find out who has what it takes to make it through the nerve-shredding pressure and tough mental combat required to win the quiz of all quizzes. Packed full of challenging questions that will take you to the limit, as well as 'did you know' info-boxes on memory tricks, tips for the best brain food, ways to get your nerves under control and Mensa's 17 signs of a child genius, this is the ultimate guide to the secrets every genius needs to know. This is your chance to put your family to the test like never before and find out who is the real brainiac of the family. Quizzes include: Spelling and Comprehension; Linguistic Memory; Maths; Memory Challenge; History; Science; General Knowledge; Logic and Reasoning; Advanced language; The Sudden Death Challenge; and more!
Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the
worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just
about everything. Join author Bill Cannon as he reveals facts that
depict the colorful bravado unique to the Lone Star State. For
instance, no six but seven flags flew over Texas. In 1832 the
composer of The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, was the
cousel hired by Sam Houston to defend him on assault charges. And
someone other than Sam Bass may be buried in his grave.
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.
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 calm and breezy minis are too cute for any puzzler to resist. Features: - 150 easy mini puzzles to solve - Fun, contemporary clues - Portable size for on-the-go solving
-- Rebuses, crosswords, acrostics, mirror images, word scrambles,
hide-and-seek words, word chains, and many more
Spring Street 1000 Piece puzzle from Galison is a cheerful, fun springtime street scene featuring flowering trees and capturing everyday moments. 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
Where was the first World Cup held? A Argentina B France C Uruguay D The Netherlands Here's the ultimate challenge for all football fans and armchair contestants. If you think you could compete with the contestants who sit in the famous Who Wants to be a Millionaire? hot-seat, then this is the quiz book for you. Packed with 1,000 brain teasing questions about UK, European and international football, created by the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? question masters, this is the ultimate quiz book for any football fan. This World Cup, find out if you really know your football by playing Who Wants to be a Football Millionaire?
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 a popular masterpiece of post impressionism, The Starry Night by Van Gogh. 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. Van Gogh's famous painting was created from memory during his extended term at the Asylum in Saint-Remy, towards the end of his life, in 1889. Unlike many of his masterpieces, very little is known about the motivations for this piece because it is barely mentioned in the correspondence with his brother Theo. The surviving letters from this period discuss, and include preliminary sketches of, so many of his other works, but there remains an air of mystery about its absence, perhaps contributing to the success of the work in more recent times. The Starry Night does capture the essence of Van Gogh's style, with its strong, textured strokes, sweeping lines of movement, and the exaggerated detail, all of which point to the anxious turmoil of the artist's incarceration. The dark towering cypress tree to the left of the painting overpowers the quiet settlement below, but is itself dominated by the glowing orbs in the sky. The Starry Night retains the impression of the world around us, but hints at the emotions beyond and behind.
Looking for something challenging but not impossible, something to bump up your kakuro technique? This title presents medium-hard green puzzles that are just right for honing intermediate skills.
Challenge yourself against this varied compilation of more than 200 puzzles designed to test your brainpower to its limit. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of reasoning. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a rigorous mental workout. With a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional logic puzzles, from Battleships and Masyu to Slitherlink and Skycraper, you will find a fresh challenge on every page.
A brand new series from internationally bestselling author, Dr Gareth Moore. Take five with over 200 crossword puzzles. Be stylish and smart with this pretty book of Crosswords, which will keep you entertained whether you're relaxing at home or out and about. Pocket-sized and full of the Crosswords you love to solve, pick up your pen, give your brain a gentle workout and enjoy a little 'me' time with the over 200 brand new Crosswords found within. Also available: * Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Word Searches (9781789294200) * Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Sudoku (9781789294194)
Quality time alone on the lavatory is a truly special occasion. What better way to celebrate and honour this ritual than with some extraordinary reading material? Lord of toilet trivia and master architect of poo-themed puzzles, Hugh Jassburn has unloaded his creative bowels once more in this astounding collection of all-new amusements. From eye-watering stats to mind-boggling mazes, this special edition is anything but bog-standard.
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. |
You may like...
The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human…
A. Berthelet, J. Chavaillon
Hardcover
R4,495
Discovery Miles 44 950
Behavior and Environment, Volume 96…
T. Garling, R.G. Golledge
Hardcover
R3,596
Discovery Miles 35 960
Diversity and Differences in…
Robert P. Dennehy, Ronald R. Sims
Hardcover
R2,533
Discovery Miles 25 330
|