Challenging Acrostic Puzzles


Book Description

They look like crosswords, but don't be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn't stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, Rawhide, and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you really know about music, history, geography, and even mythology. Break free from the standard word puzzle and tackle the twofold challenge of acrostics for an enlightening change of pace.




Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles


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Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!




The New York Times Acrostic Puzzles Volume 11


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50 Quotation puzzles from the pages of The New York Times Edited by Emily Cox and Harry Rathvon New York Times puzzles are America's favorite! Whether your tastes are literary or lowbrow, this latest installment of fifty of the Sunday Times' famous acrostic puzzles features quotations ranging from Herman Melville to Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So sharpen your pencil, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for some acrostic fun!




Astounding Acrostic Puzzles


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Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.




Quote Acrostic Favorites


Book Description

If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from education and humor to history and sports. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Dave Barry, Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Garfield, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "It Knocks Me Out," "My Retirement," "Prove Me Wrong," "Successfully Aging," and "They Always Fell."




Exceptional Acrostics to Keep You Sharp


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A book of fifty smart and diverting acrostics reveal wise and whimsical sayings about lessons learned along the road of life or the value of experience.




Quote Acrostic


Book Description

A new collection of brain-teasing quote acrostics.




Puzzle Baron's Acrostics


Book Description

From the creator and editor of the extremely popular puzzlebaron.com website for the ever-growing number of compulsive acrostic puzzle enthusiasts, Puzzle Baron's Acrostics has a total of 100 acrostic puzzles, plus answers in an easy-to-use answer key.




Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles


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Spend hours solving over 400 various puzzles in the Puzzle Baron's largest offering yet! The Puzzle Baron is at it again—creating puzzles his puzzle followers crave. Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles provides puzzlers hours of entertainment with 400 assorted popular puzzles, including logic puzzles, crosswords, cryptograms, acrostics, word search puzzles, and more! Each puzzle type includes statistics—such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of puzzlers who can complete the puzzle—to bring out the competitor in puzzlers and better inform them on how easy/difficult each puzzle is to do. So grab your pencil and see how you stack up to the competiton!




Acrostica I


Book Description

Fifty challenging acrostic puzzles constructed from thought-provoking quotes, with clues covering subjects from the classics to pop culture. Everything comes together in these acclaimed, wide-ranging confections for the mind. Praise for the first edition from Amazon reviews: A great new volume of acrostic puzzles If you're a confirmed acrostaholic like I am, you'll love Michael's puzzles... Perfect for solving on leisurely Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee -- or three... - Cynthia Morris, Author of "American Acrostics" and "Kids' Krostics" Good collection of acrostic puzzles - Acrostic puzzle books seem to be increasingly rare, and this is a good addition to what's available ...this collection will appeal to acrostic addicts of all levels of skill. - Phelps Gates Well worth purchasing - Very clever acrostics with varied themes ...fine for acrostic connoisseurs - Joan I. Andon The second edition contains the same puzzles as the first; one of the answer keys has been corrected.