Kids love Bananagrams so what better treat for kids who love puzzles and wordplay than a smart, just-for-them collection: "Bananagrams for Kids."
Puzzability, the premier puzzle-writing company who wrote "The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book " and whose mind-benders have appeared in "Disney Adventures," "Nickelodeon" magazine, "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times," creates original and unexpected word puzzles that capture the quick-on-your-feet spirit of Bananagrams. There are over a dozen of banana-themed varieties, including Bunched Up (a mini-crossword), Monkey in the Middle (building a larger word out of two smaller words, with clues), Banana Pancakes (a stack of anagrams using letters in common), and Going Bananas (complete a sentence with two different words made from the same letters).
What's invisible to kids is that behind the silly names and clever formats, these games have a strong educational side they strengthen vocabulary, reward agile thinking, and reinforce the idea that using your brain is fun. The puzzles are rated in difficulty from one to four bananas, and an answer key is included.

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Calling all players, beginners and experts alike! Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by SCRABBLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABBLE® Championship and coauthor of Everything SCRABBLE®.

Learn how to:

• "Read the board" and see where you can score the most points -- and where you can't.
• Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words
• Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays
• Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z
• Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations
• Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays
• Find the Ideal Play -- eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer
• Win at SCRABBLE -- six key factors
• Find the best play in real game action -- fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results.

National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your SCRABBLE-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros.

The puzzles in Anagrammar have been designed to turn a novice or average wordgame player into an expert at finding words from random sequences of letters. Ever wonder how the experts do it so quickly? It will be no surprise if you follow the specific instructions offered for solving these puzzles. It starts with very easy word-matching puzzles and slowly works its way toward more challenging anagrams, and includes teaching you the best and simplest method for finding seven- and eight-letter words. Includes more than 6000 puzzles. Once you have trained your brain with the main body of puzzles, the author also offers two novel puzzle types that use your newfound skills. Two appendices also give you a glimpse and example puzzles of what the author will be publishing next year: Two additional creative puzzle concepts that will surely test your anagramming skills: The first is a revolutionary and more challenging type of word search puzzle. The second might well have been Holmes bedtime puzzling in a past era, or will be Spock's. You needn't have any special wordgame skills when you start out. You only need your curiosity and interest in becoming good at anagramming, and a willingness to enjoy the fun and excitement of solving anagram puzzles.