Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.200 taxing brain teasers and riddles, demanding lateral thinking skills to solve. Ingenious challenges - some just a paragraph long, others with an accompanying diagram. You will need mathematical or logical reasoning to solve these.These teasers are for puzzlers of all abilities, no formal knowledge is required, just application and imagination.Some demand a logical approach, others a good mathematical mind; an agility with words will solve a handful more, but all demand a logical approach and lots of lateral thinking.Answers are given at the back of the book.Now get your thinking cap on!
Dozens of compelling and addictive mathematical puzzles twillchallenge your mental arithmetic and powers of deductive reasoning. Tetonor rules: each number in the main grid can be formed by adding or multiplying a pair of numbers in the strip below the grid. Each pair of numbers should be used twice: once as part of an addition and once as part of a multiplication. For example, a 10 and 24 in the main grid may be solved by the sums, 4 + 6 and 4 x 6, respectively. Enter each sum in the boxes below its answer. Any blanks in the strip must be deduced, bearing in mind the numbers are listed in ascending order. 60 Easy, 80 Medium and 60 Difficult puzzles included.
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.A challenging visual puzzle which will appeal to lovers of logic and deduction brain teasers. Use your mental agility to complete the grids using the train tracks. Puzzles included cover three levels of difficulty, 70 easy, 70 medium, 60 hard.How To Play: A map grid shows two towns, typically A and B. The objective of the puzzle is to lay down tracks to connect the two towns. Numbers around the outside of the grid tell you how many pieces of track are to be placed in each row and column. You can only use straight (horizontal and vertical) and curved (right and left) rails and the track cannot cross over itself.There is something very satisfying in the laying down of tracks. The puzzles are arranged in Easy, Medium and Hard, where difficulty is largely dependent on the size of the map grid (6x6, 8x8 and 10x10)
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.500 fun and fast, word puzzles, only 5 clues to solve per puzzle!"I love Quintagrams. Brilliant idea. Thank you for all the fun I get from these puzzles." Susan Sleight"The Quintagram is now positively my favourite puzzle." Gavin Heys"Fabulous fun." Jeffrey ShawTry these crossword-inspired puzzles for a short, sharp brain challenge.You will find both "concise" and "cryptic" clues here, something to suit all tastes and abilities. Ideal if you need a word workout in super quick time with only five clues to solve in each puzzle, so get cracking!How does it work? Solve all five clues using each of the letters provided once only. Cross out the letters as you go until you have used them all.Start off with the concise clues and work your way up to the trickier cryptic ones.Solutions are easily found at the back of the book.
200 brand new compelling and addictive word and number puzzles from The Times. Appearing daily in the newspaper, Codeword is the cracking alternative to Su Doku and Crosswords. The concept is simple: each number represents a letter, so, starting with the solved letters, use your logic and vocabulary to reveal more letters, form words, and then crack the code! The Codeword series is so popular because you don t need any prior knowledge, unlike a crossword. You can just pick up a pen and get puzzling. It steadily increases your vocabulary, as the difficulty slowly grows as you progress through the book, and even though you ll be working your brain, it s the perfect way to unwind.
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.100 puzzles from The Times adapting the cryptic puzzle for those with a hectic lifestyle and schedule. Ideal for those starting out with cryptic crosswords, and those who'd like to tackle the main puzzle but feel daunted, or who can perhaps only solve a handful of clues.Appearing Monday to Friday in the puzzle pages of Times2, this crossword has a reduced 13x13 grid size and reduced difficulty too, the intention being to encourage people to take their first steps in tackling cryptic crosswords. And also to cater for those of us who have limited time to devote to our favourite pastime and need a ready-made set of puzzles that is solvable in a short space of time.
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world’s most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge.
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