Will Shortz, NPR's Puzzlemaster, has been challenging and entertaining puzzle fans for years. Now he starts a new series of word games and brainteaser books: Mind Games! The first volume, Alphabet Riddles, contains 100 of his popular initial puzzles where every answer is a familiar two-word phrase having the same pair of initials. For example, using the initials S & B: *What's kicked at the World Cup [SOCCER BALL] *Portable advertising sign [SANDWICH BOARD] *Shade of hair that's reddish yellow [STRAWBERRY BLOND] *God [SUPREME BEING] Features: · 100 all-new Alphabet Riddles · Created by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz · Convenient portable format

The bestselling game Plants vs. Zombies was the winner of more than 30 Best Game of the Year Awards. Plants vs. Zombies: Brain Busters is a 224-page book chock-full of games, puzzles, and activities based on the characters in the game—perfect for any Plants vs. Zombies fan and kids who love activity books.

An activity book that acts as a companion to the TV series Brain games.

Fifty-one original puzzles include complex crosswords, a collection of amusing stories with a series of clues that lead to a single solution at the end, and an advanced series of math and logic puzzles — no skills beyond high school algebra needed. Most puzzles include hints; solutions are provided for all.

It’s a pocket-size brain gym. Here are more than 500 full-color puzzles from the original Big Book of Brain Games—the book that Will Shortz praised as “the most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining collection of brainteasers since Sam Lloyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles,” and The Washington Post called “an opus . . . mixing math with wonder.” Here are mental games, visual challenges, logic posers, riddles, and illusions, each designed to stretch neurons and give the brain a workout—all in a format that will fit in your pocket. The puzzles (both original and mind-boggling adaptations of classics) are rated in difficulty from level one to ten, but even the easiest are guaranteed to make the solver feel smart. Can you cross the Impossible Domino Bridge? Break through the Queen’s Standoff? Wield the Sickle of Archimedes? The Little Book of Big Brain Games: salted peanuts for the mind.

"This collection of questions that stimulate thinking is a combination joke book, logic book and puzzle book . . .The verbal questions that rely on word plays are particularly entertaining and sure to tickle many students."--School Library Journal A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

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