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Can you crack the toughest codes of the 20th century? Imperial War
Museums have created a cryptographic challenge worthy of the finest
minds of Bletchley Park and Room 40. This is your chance to prove
that you have the code-breaking skills to rank among them. There
are hundreds of head-scratching ciphers included in Code-Breaking
Puzzles certain to keep you entertained for hours, alongside
20th-century military history puzzles and crosswords perfect for
the armchair general. For those who need a helping hand, the book
also includes a brief history of cryptography, along with tips and
tricks to help you make the connections you need to decrypt and
solve the puzzles. Whether you are a military history buff or a
lateral-thinking lover, good luck: your country needs you!
Strap on the deerstalker of the world's most famous detective: in
this interactive puzzling adventure you choose which steps to take.
Enter the mind palace of Sherlock Holmes as you view the most
testing mysteries through his very eyes. You must choose your own
path at every step as you attempt to solve the riddles of three
classic cases, based on the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Your task is to decipher the clues, solve the puzzles and make the
right choices to solve each fiendish case. Do you have what it
takes to step into the shoes of Sherlock Holmes?
Inspired by the hit board game that has sold over 12 million
copies, travel the world from the comfort of your home with the
Ticket to Ride Puzzle Book. Based on the award-winning board game,
this book is packed full of 100 original, colourful and exciting
challenges for puzzlers and board-game enthusiasts alike. It's the
year 1900, and you are a young tourist setting off on a global rail
journey. Voyaging from city to city across countries and
continents, you meet an entertaining set of characters who provide
you with a perplexing set of brainteasers, from logic problems and
train track puzzles to riddles and linguistic conundrums. Climb
aboard and ride across the world in 100 globe-trotting puzzles!
Inspired by the best-selling board game that has sold over 30
million copies, the Catan Puzzle Book is the perfect gift for fans
of the Catan franchise who want to expand beyond the board game
experience. The timeless world of Catan is waiting for you to
explore, build, settle... and solve! Inside the Catan Puzzle Book
are 100 original puzzles based on the wildly popular board game,
providing a narrative adventure that allows you to discover the
unsettled island of Catan. Alongside original artworks from
Settlers of Catan, each puzzle contains its own pleasures and
solving them allows you to win resources. Resources lead to victory
points... and victory points lead to success! Contents: This book
includes 10 chapters of puzzles, each containing 10 puzzles set in
the Catan world. The puzzles may be solved on their own or as part
of a narrative that runs through the book. Each correctly answered
puzzle awards the reader resources, which can eventually be
converted into achievements and victory points. Upon earning enough
victory points, the reader wins the book! Catan Puzzle Book is also
fantastically illustrated throughout with more than 150 in-world
artworks.
'The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must
be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite
insane' Nikola Tesla. Enter the fascinating world of Nikola Tesla,
the inventor who enabled the modern world as we know it to exist,
thanks to his work as a pioneering electrical engineer, inventor,
physicist and futurist. The Nikola Tesla Electrifying Puzzle Book
immerses you in Tesla's world of invention, innovation, and
experimentation with puzzles, conundrums and quandaries set to test
whether you can hold your own against the Father of Electricity.
Based around Tesla's often dramatic life and times as well as his
inventions, this book is filled with many different puzzle types:
riddles, logic puzzles, lateral thinking, spot-the-difference,
mathematical challenges and more. All with enthralling stories and
details about the scientific genius woven in.
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