Authors: Norbert Weissinger.
Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication Date: 2005-10-03


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    1001 Word Rebuses is a collection of puzzles based on an old theme: the word rebus. A word rebus is a mixture of text and graphics that contains a hidden word, phrase, or idiom. Word rebuses have been popular for hundreds of years and a TV game show was even based on them. This book contains enough rebuses to keep young and old entertained for many hours....

Authors: Geraint Tucker.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Adams Media
Publication Date: 2007-10-01


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    Ready to tackle the ultimate crossword challenge? Try these cryptic crosswords, which not only test your conventional crossword skills, but also provide other forms of word play as well. The Everything® Cryptic Crosswords Book boasts a hundred pencil-nibbling puzzles, in which each clue is a riddle in itself, such as:

• Double definitions: Create vegetables and fruits (PRODUCE)
• Hidden words: Repeat part of the chorus (ECHO)
• Anagrams: Change of heart for our planet (EARTH)

The Everything®Cryptic Crosswords Book is your perfect introduction to these mind-bending, addictive puzzles. Whether you're new to the cryptic trend or an experienced fan, you'll be hooked in no time!

Geraint Tucker discovered cryptic crosswords at university in the UK and soon started to make them as well-first for a Web site and later for the student newspaper at Bath University.He lives in Cardiff, Wales....

Authors: Roger Price. Leonard Stern.
Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
Publication Date: 2008-04-17

Authors: Stefan Fatsis.
Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 2001-07-07


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    Stefan Fatsis, a Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them -- and him.
Scrabble might truly be called America's game. More than two million sets
are sold every year and at least thirty million American homes have one. But the game's most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of "living room players." Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earn him the nickname "G.I. Joel"; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore's inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and Fatsis himself, who we see transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut.
He begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments socializing -- and competing -- with Scrabble's elite.
But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields
insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. WORD FREAK extends its reach even further, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us....

    Like a cross between a linguistic spy and a lexicographic Olympic athlete, journalist Stefan Fatsis gave himself a year to penetrate the highest echelons of international Scrabble competition. Word Freak is the account of his journey. It's a wacky grab bag of travelogue, history, party journal, and psychological study of the misfits and goofballs whose lives are measured out in Scrabble tiles.

Fatsis gives us all the facts about Scrabble--from the story of the down-on-his-luck architect who invented the game in the 1930s to the intricacies of individual international competitions and the corporate wars to control the world's favorite word game. He keeps the reader turning the pages as we get involved in the lives of the Scrabble obsessives: men and women who have a point to prove against the world and have chosen Scrabble as their playground and their pulpit. As Fatsis goes on his own quest to attain the coveted 1600 rating, we actually get obsessed with him as he lies awake at night pondering moves and memorizing lists of words. For anybody who is interested in words, Word Freak provides an entertaining and absorbing read. --Dwight Longenecker, Amazon.co.uk ...

Authors: Francis Heaney.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Sterling
Publication Date: 2005-10-01


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    An accompaniment to a good cup of coffee or tea is sure to become a hit with solvers - just like 'Sit & Solves'. So take a break, and relax with four great new mug-shaped, high-quality crosswords, word searches, and logic conundrums....

Authors: David L. Hoyt.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Publication Date: 2002-04

Authors: Charles Timmerman.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Adams Media
Publication Date: 2008-10-17


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    Solving puzzles is a great way to pass time on a train, in an airport, or in the back seat of a car. Puzzlers young and old will love this collection. It’s the perfect traveling companion for word search fans. Each puzzle has a fun and clever theme: road trips; vacation destinations; adventure travel; favorite museums and tourist attractions; national parks; and more. Packed with 150 addictive and entertaining puzzles, this word search collection provides vacationers, business travelers, or commuters with portable entertainment that makes any trip more enjoyable....

Authors: John Samson.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Publication Date: 2008-10-01


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So you think you're smarter than a fifth grader?

Don't be so sure!

Adults and teens coast to coast have already discovered that the elementary school curriculum is a lot tougher than they remembered, thanks to the runaway smash hit game show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. And now there's a fun new way to test your knowledge of the facts that every grade-schooler knows: Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Crossword Puzzles!

Here are clues and answers covering a wide range of elementary school subjects. From first grade science to third grade math to fifth grade social studies, this is a collection of fun, enlightening, and disarmingly tricky puzzles. Renowned puzzle master John Samson is certain to delight even the most dedicated crossword fanatic. Even if you have a framed college diploma on your wall, what you don't remember from your carefree school bus-and-backpack days will surprise you—guaranteed!

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Authors: Mike Ward.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Sterling
Publication Date: 2005-09-01


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Authors: The New York Times.
Spiral-bound, 64 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2003-03-01


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