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Crossword Puzzles

Animal Lovers Trivia

Animal Lovers Trivia

$12.00
In a striking and portable box, these 140 questions are a fun trivia challenge wherever you want to play! These multiple-choice questions cover the entire animal kingdom--from marine life to land dwellers.
Crosswordese

Crosswordese

Bukszpan, David
$22.95
"Crosswordese in all its glory has never been so entertaining!"--Will Shortz

A celebration of the weird and wonderful language of crosswords, and the lexicon's fascinating checkered history, for crossword puzzlers and language lovers of all kinds.

Crossword puzzles have a language all their own. This entertaining guide to grid lingo will improve your game while it fills in the mystery and history of this unique and playful idiom. Author David Bukszpan brings his deep word game knowledge and engaging educational style to this exploration of crosswordese and its evolution from antiquity to the age of LOL and LIZZO.

Far more than a crossword puzzle lexicon, Crosswordese is full of fun entries, including rich sections on particular types of puzzle clues and answers from pop culture, sports, science, and more. Each chapter also includes a puzzle custom-made by the author and exclusive to the book! This is the perfect gift to help novices up their skills and reward veterans with a deeper appreciation of this delightfully quirky vocab.

BEYOND CROSSWORDS: Hooked on crosswords? Now you can discover even more to enjoy about the history and trivia behind the terms and clues you love.

THE CROSSWORD MOMENT: With crossword puzzles hotter than ever, and available in venues new and familiar (of course the New York Times, but also The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, Vice, smartphone apps . . . ), we live in a golden era of crosswordese. This is a readable and richly entertaining guide to speaking the language and upping your game.

PACKED WITH INFORMATION: The text is written in a clever way that delivers ANSWERS and [clues] as you read along. Packed with trivia, sidebar-rich chapters cover groups of clues on subjects like food, travel, music, movies, and more.

FOR BEGINNERS, EXPERTS, AND WORD NERDS ALIKE: Beginners will find it a boon to their solving skills; veteran crossworders will learn more about the vocabulary they employ every morning; even folks more interested in language than puzzles will find plenty to say AHA about.

DIP IN AND OUT: Structured for easy use, with spotlights on common and cryptic crosswordese from Latin terms to coffee words, sports lingo to Simpsons characters, and phrases like DOH [Homeric interjection?] and OOF [Gut reaction?].

PUZZLES INCLUDED: The author has also specially created a dozen puzzles based on the book's content and included them inside the book!

Perfect for:

  • Gift or self-purchase for crossword puzzlers of all skill levels
  • Lovers of Scrabble, Wordle, Bananagrams, Words with Friends, and all varieties of word and brain games
  • Pairing with crossword puzzle books for adults as a birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, or any special occasion gift for word nerds and language enthusiasts
  • Going offline to enjoy some classic screen-free crossword fun
  • Odyssey in 1,000 Pieces

    Odyssey in 1,000 Pieces

    Dunn, Daisy
    $24.95

    Homer's Odyssey, predating the invention of writing in ancient Greece, is revived in this stunning 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Encounter the one-eyed Cyclops, who feasts on the flesh of men; bewitching women, who charm with songs and spells; and meddling gods and goddesses, who shape the hero's fate.

    Follow Odysseus's journey using the accompanying concertina, exploring twenty key scenes. Daisy Dunn's text will ignite new interest in one of the world's oldest and greatest poems. Get ready for a modern take on this ancient masterpiece.

    Papercuts

    Papercuts

    Electric Literature
    $22.00
    Show off your page-turning prowess and bust out your best book-themed jokes with this raucous party game full of literary laughs from the wordsmiths at the indie nonprofit Electric Literature.

    Papercuts is what Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, and Virginia Woolf would play if they were alive, locked in a room together, and forced to play a card game. This party game for bibliophiles and pop culture fanatics follows an intuitive and popular game format: the dealer lays down a Question card and each player must fill in the blank with one of the five Answer cards in their hand. What ensues is an endless loop of hilarious literary jokes and gut-busting gameplay.

    Sample questions include:
    - Why does the caged bird sing?
    - Are You There God? It's Me, __________.
    - Last year's Booker Prize-winning novel is told from the perspective of __________.

    Players can respond with answers like:
    - Flannery O'Connor's peacocks
    - Atticus Finch before he was racist
    - a fifteen-page sex scene

    This edition of Electric Literature's game boasts 100 question cards and 200 answer cards in a luxe, portable package. Toss it in a tote or bring it to your next party for countless chapters of enjoyment.

    Literary Charades

    Literary Charades

    Games Room
    $12.00
    This beautifully-packaged party game comes with 140 cards, each with 5 literary categories to choose from, including Classics, Bestsellers, Nonfiction, Book to Film, and Children's books. Simply act out the titles of the latest-and-greatest books--without speaking a word--for your team to guess.
    Mythology Trivia

    Mythology Trivia

    Games Room
    $12.00
    With 140 mythological trivia questions in a gorgeous and compact box, MYTHOLOGY TRIVIA puts your knowledge of the world's mythologies to the ultimate test! These multiple-choice questions cover worldwide myths and folklore--from gods and heroes to magical beasts and monsters.
    Pocket Thomas Hardy

    Pocket Thomas Hardy

    Gemini
    $9.95

    A wonderfully stimulating collection of quizzes and puzzles based on the richly imaginative world of Thomas Hardy's six best-loved novels.

    This Hardy-themed quiz book includes: crosswords based on love, song and dance and architecture; anagrams concealing the names of some of Hardy's rustic characters; and wordsearches hiding the names of romantic protagonists.

    Quizzes test your memory of his six best-loved novels: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Each quiz explores a different aspect - from proposals, faces and inns to relations, food and drink.

    Hardy's famous invented place-names feature in the Wessex Words puzzles and two mazes, 'Jude's Journey' and 'In the Footsteps of Tess'.

    Included inside are charming line drawings from Donald Maxwell's The Landscape of Thomas Hardy, published in 1928, the year of Hardy's death. The artist discussed the views his drawings depict with Hardy himself. The cover shows a wood engraving by English artist Vivien Massie Gribble, created for a 1926 edition of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

    Gemini Pockets

    From little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

    Brain Fitness Puzzles

    Brain Fitness Puzzles

    Moore, Gareth
    $14.99

    Your mind, just like your body, needs regular exercise to stay in shape. Structured the same way as a good physical workout--in warm-up, training, cardio, and cool-down modes--this brain-training manual provides a definitive regimen to help you boost your mind to peak performance readiness. Flex your intellect with an exciting variety of engaging exercises scientifically designed to enhance your logic and reasoning skills, visual and lateral thinking, creativity, concentration, and more. Fun, familiar puzzles such as word searches and Sudoku will fire up your neurons, preparing you for more challenging and rewarding activities, such as long digit span tests, mental rotation games, and memory tasks. Go at your own pace and remember that practice makes progress. If you hit the wall, the puzzle key at the back of the book has all the answers.

    Murder Mystery Puzzle Book

    Murder Mystery Puzzle Book

    Moore, Gareth
    $14.99
    One crime to solve. Over 70 killer conundrums to piece together the clues.

    The first book in the brand-new Murder Mystery Club Puzzle Book series, Murder in the Village is all the brain-teasing fun of a classic murder mystery game in a convenient travel-sized puzzle book!

    Welcome to the Puzzle Murder Mystery Club: a puzzle book experience like no other. Put your logic and reasoning to the test and master the art of deduction as you examine clues, eliminate the suspects, and piece together the evidence to catch the killer in their tracks.

    Rosa Martinez is a young journalist looking for a break from big-city life. She visits her great aunt Martha in the quiet, charming village of Wobberly End. On her first night in town, she meets the Puzzle Club--a group of four friends who come together regularly to solve puzzles. The next morning, however, a body appears in the middle of the market square--and all the signs point to murder. But whose is the body in the middle of Wobberly Edge? And, more importantly, who killed them? The puzzle club members soon find themselves solving a mysterious murder instead of cryptic crosswords. Their investigation involves a village full of rumors, a lavish gala dinner, and a hunt for both the killer and the victim...

    Do you have what it takes to make an accusation and pin down WHO, WHY, and HOW? Dust off your deerstalker and get your pens at the ready as you join a team of amateur sleuths to solve over 70 cryptic puzzles and catch the culprit!

    Puzzle types include:

  • Deductive logic
  • Mastermind-style combination and safe cracking
  • Location tracking
  • Visual puzzles including spot the difference and hidden pictures
  • Date, time, and other event ordering tasks
  • New York Times Games Challenging Crosswords Volume 3

    New York Times Games Challenging Crosswords Volume 3

    Shortz, Will
    $14.00

    Dangerous puzzles ahead!

    Take the risk and challenge yourself to 50 of the most devious and difficult New York Times Games crossword puzzles.

    Features:
    - 50 New York Times Games Friday and Saturday puzzles
    - Spiral binding for convenient lay-flat solving
    - Puzzles edited by the #1 name in crosswords, Will Shortz