After his bestselling Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Awesome Word Search Puzzles for Kids, and Clever Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Mark Danna's out to baffle youngsters again--and they'll enjoy every second of it.
Every puzzle has a theme and includes a series of related words hidden among a grid of letters. All you have to do is look for them. Are the words spelled vertically, horizontally, or diagonally? Don t forget to check backward as well as forward. Now here are some more words: provoking, stimulating, and entertaining. Together, they describe the awesome puzzles in this collection.
Word search puzzles don t get much better than this. Will Shortz, Puzzlemaster for National Public Radio Mark Danna whose earlier Word Search Puzzles for Kids was a huge success has come up with even more smart search challenges to delight brainy youngsters. What makes them so special? First, the letters in every grid form a picture, so instead of ho-hum squares, children get lively shapes. Then, the puzzles feature a few additional twists. Three of the searches don t have word lists, for example; the puzzler has to create them from a series of clues. And finally, each puzzle has a hidden message: once kids have circled all the correct phrases, the uncircled letters will spell out a silly quote, fun fact, or punch line to a punny riddle.
Mark Danna knows how to create puzzle challenges that children find irresistible. That s why Word Search Puzzles for Kids, as well as his other collections, sold 149,700 copies. Now, he s serving up his sixth helping of ingeniously designed and wildly imaginative word searches that smart youngsters will snap up. Each fun grid is a picture (not a ho-hum square) based on the puzzle s theme, including one shaped like a unicorn for a Fantastic Creatures search. There are rebuses, too, searches where kids have to make up the word list from clues, and puzzles with extra-special, tricky twists. The icing on the cake: each word search contains a hidden message that youngsters can only decipher after they ve completed the grid.
There are ordinary word searchesand then there are these created especially for kids by Mark Danna. What makes them special? For starters, many of them have shapes that relate to their themes: a penguin, a rocket ship, a wedding cake, a volcano, or some other appealing design. For another, some of them contain rebuses (example: in Auto Focus, the letters C-A-R appear as a little car). Best of all, every one of the 52 puzzles delivers a hidden payoff: After all the hidden words and phrases have been correctly circled, the remaining letters spell out a fascinating fact, a wacky joke, a tongue twister, or something else guaranteed to raise a smile. A surefire hit for kids who enjoy a challenge.
This latest entry in the Mensa series of language-based puzzle books features 26 grids in the shape of each capital letter, plus 13 puzzles in the shape of lowercase letters and 13 in the shape of commonly paired letters. Consumable.
Fun grids, hidden messages, and entertaining twists that only a top puzzlemaker like Mark Danna could dream up! You’ll find all that right here, in one of the best word search collections ever. It has amazing variety, with grids that form cool pictures (like a rocket ship) to match the puzzle’s theme and extra challenges to add spice to the solving. Some searches contain rebuses to decode; others make you come up with the word list yourself; and all of them contain a secret message! Once you’ve found all the words, read the uncircled letters from left to right, and top to bottom, to spell out a fascinating fact, riddle response, or interesting observation.
What makes these 56 word search puzzles so extraordinary, so completely AWESOME? For the first time ever, every single one comes in a picture shape that relates to the puzzle's theme. So, you'll get such shapes as an ice cream cone (for "Here's the Scoop"); a bowling ball and pin ("Right Up Your Alley"); a snowman ("Snowed In"); and a boat ("For Sail"). And there's more: some of the puzzles have rebuses and other gimmicks, and every single puzzle contains a secret message. To see what that message says, go to the grid, find and circle all the phrases on the word list, then read all the uncircled letters from left to right, top to bottom, to spell out a "punny" answer to a riddle, humorous thought, or fun fact. (The letters are in order--but you have to figure out how the letters get divided into words.) That's what makes this collection a real, Mensa-level challenge!
Party on with puzzles geared to the hip and young, with themes focusing on hot celebrities, chartbusting music, blockbuster movies, must-watch TV, must-have fashions, chilling at the mall, extreme sports, dances, hangin out, cars, romance, the Internet you name it. Plus: a hidden message in every grid.
What makes this collection of mind-boggling word search puzzles unlike any other? The shapes of each and every puzzle can be downright wacky at times. Instead of looking for hidden words in a jumble of letters that usually comes in a ho-hum square or rectangle, the words in these grids form distinctive picture outlines that are directly related to the puzzles' themes. You get a grid in the shape of a charging bull, for example, in a puzzle about the stock market. There are 58 word searches in all and each one is fun and challenging as well as a little different. Book jacket.
You'll need an eagle eye to complete these 60 challenging themed word searches: "White on Schedule" contains words of things that are white--such as mashed potatoes and underwear. Some of the grids break out of the traditional box. "Off and Running" is shaped like a horse and contains references to horse racing, while "Give me a Break!" is mug-shaped with words and phrases associated with coffee. There are puzzles to challenge your thinking skills. To complete "Bad Ideas for Movie Sequels" you'll need your knowledge of movies as well as your sense of humor, and for "Abbr.-ations" you'll need to decipher abbreviations to come up with the word list. In "Black Hole" puzzles, the letters in the center of the grid are missing, and once you've figured out what they are, they'll spell out a quip. A fun way to sharpen your powers of observation.
Show off your smarts on sports, music, famous people, TV shows, and dozens of other subjects. Try all 56 puzzles and find the hidden words that are written left to right, right to left, up, down, and diagonally. Test your wits on school stuff, camp fun, words with the letter X, horror movies, Internet terminology, outer space, dinosaurs, and more. Each puzzle has a slightly different style, but all come with jokes, little-known facts...and the answers.
Search and solvewith nearly 160 puzzles here, there s plenty of brain-stimulating pleasure to be had! Each one of these entertaining word searches focuses on a particular subject, with many arranged in a shape suitable to the topic. For example, Hitting Below the Belt looks like a pair of shorts, and the words refer to things worn at or below the waist, like swimming trunks and skirt. The shamrock-shaped Greenery Scenery goes green with mint, moss, and Kermit the Frog. And Things to Do While Sitting includes fly a plane and check e-mail. All the puzzles contain a word list to guide you as you look, as well as the answers if there are a few you can t find.
Kids will love it: here are more than 100 of the best word searches ever created! Each puzzle will entice young solvers with a clever title, and all the searches feature distinctive designs that fit the theme. For example "Hang in There" is shaped like a trapeze artist and includes things that might hang--like an ornament or your head. The words (approximately 25 per search) go vertically, horizontally, and diagonally; in an unusual touch, every word in a grid crosses at least one other, and all the words in a grid interconnect. And, as a bonus, every puzzle contains a hidden message--an answer to a punny riddle, a punch line to a silly joke--made up of the uncircled letters!
Fans of Hasbro s classic SCATTERGORIES can now play anywhere, anytimeand even compete when there s no other player around! And those who simply love word searches will enjoy a new, seamlessly intertwined game-and-puzzle experience. Here are 60 searches, each with 12 theme categoriesperhaps Book Titles or Terms of Endearment and a letter of the alphabet. Players try to come up with as many answers that start with that letter as they can. Then, they look in the grid, see if their answers are there, and get points for every one they find. Extra letters in the grid spell out a few more items in one of the categories. Those in need of a little help can find word lists in the back to guide them!
Sharpen your pencil and your wits and try your skills on brain-bending mind-stumpers of every kind. From Solitaire Battleships to wonderfully tricky and intricate mazes, more than 200 super puzzles provide hours of enjoyment. * Whodunit?: Help Professor of Criminology Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve devious crimes in this series of mini mysteries. * Be "Letter Perfect": Fill in the grid in this fun variation on a crossword. Every clue leads to a word that begins and ends with a designated letter. The last letter of the preceding word is also the first one of the next. Remember: always work in the direction of the numbers! And there's a lot more in store, too.
It's no illusion: here are two kinds of fun, one to look at and the other to play with First, blast your senses into the next dimension with some of the most awesome 3-D mazes, visual tricks, optical illusion designs, and see throughs ever. One image features a practical-looking contraption--but can you really build it, or is it an impossible construction? Another picture features three men walking into the movie theater, one after the other; can you figure out who's tallest? Gaze into a circular checkerboard closely could it possibly be pulsating? Or perhaps you'd prefer to grab a pencil and try some tricky trios, solitaire battleships, whodunits, word searches and wordworks, story builders, and other puzzles. Whichever you choose, a good time is assured.
At the time of Christ, world politics was an ebb and flow of colliding empires and forces. The world knew only dynastic succession and rule by force. Israel was swept up in this world. Her expectations of deliverance, while diverse, had in common the anticipation of violent liberation by an alliance of God, the expected one (Theo), and Israel's forces. Her vision included the subjugation of the world to Yahweh. Any messianic claimant would be expected to fulfill this hope. Mark's story of Jesus must be read against such expectations of military power. Mark knows that Jesus' plan of salvation differed radically from this. Rather than liberation through revolution, it involved deliverance through humble, loving service and cross-bearing. However, the disciples follow Jesus but do not understand Jesus' purpose. They constantly expect war. So, the Gospel is then read from Mark's full understanding and the disciples' flawed perspective. In this first volume of Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires, Keown backgrounds Mark and the political situations of the world at the time. He then unpacks Mark 1:1--8:29 as Jesus seeks to show the disciples he is Messiah while drawing out the deep irony of their incomprehension.
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