USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book


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You can be sitting in the train working on a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even in the train. It's something different, something removed from the ordinary." --Maki Kaji, Japanese Times The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper offers puzzlesmiths the ultimate cranium compendium boasting five challenging mind teasers. USA TODAY is America's most recognized newspaper reaching more than 5 million people each day. Now, USA TODAY has collected five popular game formats into one book, including: Logic Puzzles, Crossword, Killer Sudoku, and Hitori. Complete with 400 puzzles (that's twice the size of comparable game books), USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book includes an introductory chapter that offers solution tips as well as a concluding chapter that reveals all the answers. Pen and pencil puzzles are big business. According to a national poll by the American Society on Aging, 84 percent of people report that they spend time daily in activities that are good for brain health.




Su Doku Challenge Book 1: 200 Su Doku Puzzles (Collins Su Doku)


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Are you up to the challenge of 200 new Su Doku puzzles, arranged in easy, medium and difficult categories? Keep your mind sharp and test your powers of deductive reasoning. Ideal for whiling away those long commutes, traveling or relaxing at home.




The Big Book of Sudoku Red


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You don't need to be a math whiz to enjoy a great sudoku puzzle! Sharpen your mind and have some fun with this great collection of sudokus, including over 540 challenges across four difficulty levels (Warm-Up, Challenging, Tough, and the ultimate Samurai Sudoku!) A must-have for all Sudoku enthusiasts. OVER 500 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy! VARIETY OF LEVELS: From levels 1 to 3 increasing levels of difficulty including Warm Up, Challenging and Tough. When you are done, test your skills on the ultimate Samurai Sudoku Puzzle - 5 puzzles linked together by a central puzzle! Can you become a master samurai? LAY FLAT: Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Whether your drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train or relaxing on vacation this sudoku book can go with you. MAKES A GREAT GIFT: For the sudoku puzzle lover, this books makes a great gift for any occasion! Birthday, stocking suffers, road trip or more, everyone will love it! BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for other books including word finds, crosswords, picture puzzles, and more.




Sudoku 555 Puzzles Easy to Expert


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Improve your game with this five level book containing 555 Sudoku puzzles suited for beginners and experienced players alike. -Five stimulating levels with 6 puzzles per page-150 Easy, 150 Medium, 150 Hard, 75 Very Hard, 30 Expert puzzles-Bigger print than most newspapers-Wide inner margins so you can easily tear pages outWhether you start at the beginning or jump around, be prepared for a good challenge and hours of addicting fun!




The Puzzler


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The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before Look for the author’s new podcast, The Puzzler, based on this book! What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers, and a hidden, super-challenging but solvable puzzle—The Puzzler will open readers’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times.




Level Up!


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Design and build cutting-edge video games with help from video game expert Scott Rogers! If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren’t sure where to start, then this is the book for you. Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed the hits Pac Man World, Maxim vs. Army of Zin, and SpongeBob Squarepants, this book is full of Rogers's wit and imaginative style that demonstrates everything you need to know about designing great video games. Features an approachable writing style that considers game designers from all levels of expertise and experience Covers the entire video game creation process, including developing marketable ideas, understanding what gamers want, working with player actions, and more Offers techniques for creating non-human characters and using the camera as a character Shares helpful insight on the business of design and how to create design documents So, put your game face on and start creating memorable, creative, and unique video games with this book!




Hello, Android


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Google Android dominates the mobile market, and by targeting Android, your apps can run on most of the phones and tablets in the world. This new fourth edition of the #1 book for learning Android covers all modern Android versions from Android 4.1 through Android 5.0. Freshly added material covers new Android features such as Fragments and Google Play Services. Android is a platform you can't afford not to learn, and this book gets you started. Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones and tablets, created by Google. It's inside more than a billion devices, making Android the number one platform for application developers. Your own app could be running on all those devices! Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone, just a computer where you can install the Android SDK and the emulator that comes with it. Within minutes, Hello, Android gets you creating your first working application: Android's version of "Hello, World." From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe game. By gradually adding features to the game, you'll learn about many aspects of Android programming, such as creating animated user interfaces, playing music and sound effects, building location-based services (including GPS and cell-tower triangulation), and accessing web services. You'll also learn how to publish your applications to the Google Play Store. This fourth edition of the bestselling Android classic has been revised for Android 4.1-4.3 (Jelly Bean), 4.4 (KitKat), and Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Topics have been streamlined and simplified based on reader feedback, and every page and example has been reviewed and updated for compatibility with the latest versions of Android. If you'd rather be coding than reading about coding, this book is for you.




6 Different Jigsaw Sudoku Variants


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Keep your mind young and your memory sharp with 480 Jigsaw Sudoku Variety Puzzles Book. Scientific research has shown that solving logic puzzles as Sudoku keeps your memory sharper and your mind younger. There are 6 different types of puzzles in this book, Centre-dot Jigsaw Sudoku, Even-odd Jigsaw Sudoku, Asterisk jigsaw Sudoku, Greater than Jigsaw Sudoku, XV jigsaw Sudoku and Samurai jigsaw Sudoku. The book has a total of 480 easy to hard puzzles with solutions. Jigsaw Sudoku is variation of classic sudoku where the 3x3 blocks are no longer square, instead it's irregular region of 9 cells, and all numbers from 1 to 9 must be fit inside with no repetition in any row or column or region. As twisted as it sounds, these puzzles are challenging and addictive. The Centre-Dot Jigsaw Sudoku puzzle has an extra block consists of the centre cells of the nine regions. The centre dots or cells are shaded and all sudoku rules apply i.e. no repletion in any row or column or block. Even odd is a variation where clues are given in the form of circles and squares. The cells that have circles need to be filled in with an odd number. While the cells that have squares needed to be filled in with even number. Of course, all sudoku rules must be followed i.e. no repletion in any row or column or block. The Asterisk Jigsaw Sudoku puzzle has an extra block formed from nine scatted cells (if connected they will form an Asterisk). The 9 Asterisk cells must be filled with the numbers 1 to 9 with no repetition. The cells are shaded and all sudoku rules apply i.e. no repletion in any row or column or block. Greater than Jigsaw Sudoku is a very challenging and twisted Sudoku where the signs > (greater than) and XV Jigsaw Sudoku is an easy but fun sudoku variation where the neighbour cells that add up to 5 have Roman five (v) in between. And the neighbour cells that add up to 10 have Roman ten (X) in between. This variation is a fun and relaxing stretch for your brain. Samurai Jigsaw Sudoku has five overlapping 9x9 grid. Each row, column, and irregular block (surrounded by bold lines) contain all numbers from 1 to 9 (no number is repeated in any row or column or block). The key to solve the Samurai Sudoku is to use the clues from one grid to solve another. Features Size: 8 x 11.5 inch (large size) with softcover and paperback binding. Pages: 132 pages with full-page 480 different puzzles. (6 puzzles per page so it's compact for easy carrying and holding). Plus, the Answers of all the puzzles at the end. Stretch your brain with this unique selection of fun and challenging twisted Jigsaw Sudoku Variety. Scroll up and order your copy.




SUDOKU OMNIBUS


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The Great Book Of Puzzles & Teasers


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This book consists of 75 utterly original and totally tantalizing brain teasers from master puzzler George J. Summers. He brings out fascinating challenges in situations as common as a game of tic-tac-toe or tennis or as strange as a land of habitual Truth tellers and Liars. These puzzles and teasers are constructed with clues, helpful solution and detailed answers that show you step-by-step how a teaser or a puzzle is unraveled.