Puzzle Crazy


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Girls can go crazy for puzzles with this collection of tricky teasers, clever crosswords, silly riddles, and so much more! Puzzle Crazy will tickle girls? funny bones, while sharpening their logic and problem-solving skills.




The 15 Puzzle Book


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The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.




Crazy Plant Lady


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For the plant-obsessed woman of any age, this humorous, illustrated little book celebrates the devotion and quirky habits plants inspire. You know you’re a crazy plant lady when watering is a hobby, you can’t resist a cute pot, and just looking at succulents and monsteras makes you smile. This charming celebration of the plant lady lifestyle proves that plant love is the joy that keeps growing. There are sweet puns: Aloe you vera much. Plant lady dreams: thrifting the perfect vintage mister. Relatable mantras: Every day is a good day to go plant shopping. All featuring vibrant art by Isabel Serna throughout—plus, a bonus sheet of plant-themed stickers!




Krazydad Two Not Touch Volume 1: 360 Star Battle Puzzles to Preserve Your Sanity in These Trying Times


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From krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.




Plains Crazy


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Spring bursts into bloom-and a whole lot more-as murder-by-arrow rattles Benteen County, Kansas. Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a member of the reality TV program filming in a local pasture dies with a Cheyenne arrow in his back. Sheriff English's brother, Mad Dog, the county oddball whose Amerind heritage has produced a born-again Cheyenne, is a prime suspect. Murder is a bad way to start the day. Explosive action follows. Notes left for authorities hint at a terrorist assault on the heartland. If the sheriff, known as Englishman, doesn't have enough to worry about, his wife has begun acting strangely. She insists he fly off on a Paris holiday with her before sunset—or else. As Mad Dog swings between suspect and target, he encounters his long-lost high school sweetheart, and a secret that just may explain the unlikely mix of arrows and bombs. It's Murphy's Law squared, as Mad Dog and his pet wolf, Hailey, test a shaman's powers, and Englishman struggles to balance his duties to family and community-enough to drive anyone Plains Crazy.




Will Shortz Presents Crazy for Sudoku


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From "New York Times" crossword editor Shortz, the #1 name in American puzzles, comes a collection of 150 sudoku puzzles in a pocket-sized edition. Original.




Original Sudoku


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Prepare to be obsessed. Match wits with the experts who created Sudoku. Arranged from “Easy” to “Very Hard,” here are over 300 logic puzzles that celebrate the compulsive joy of Sudoku with symmetry, smartness, and elegance—qualities lacking in computer-generated puzzles. It’s fiendish fun…every puzzle is designed by an author who anticipates your next step and obscurest the path, while never leading you into frustration.




Adult Puzzles


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If there's one thing in common about crosswords and Sudoku puzzles, it's this: they're highly logical games. This means that they will train you to think and to think really hard. They will boost your analytic and problem solving skills. They will test your knowledge along with your creativity and imagination, too. Most importantly, they will challenge your patience and your focus. Grab a copy now!




101 Puzzles, Riddles and Rhymes for Attorneys


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Research has shown that working puzzles and solving riddles can help a person retain mental sharpness and even help to prevent Alzheimer's. 101 Puzzles, Riddles and Rhymes for Attorneys gives lawyers the opportunity to sharpen their mental wits while having fun cogitating on their favorite subject-the Law! Added to the puzzles and riddles are humorous nursery rhymes about imaginary legal figures. Combining beneficial mental exercise with pure fun is what you get in 101 Puzzles, Riddles and Rhymes for Attorneys. It is so much fun, it is almost illegal! Hyla Hope Harder was born in Oklahoma City but has lived most of her life in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her B.A. in French and English from the University of Tulsa, her M.A. in American Literature from the University of Oklahoma and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Tulsa. She has taught on both a high school and college level. For 9 years she had a column in a national legal magazine. The column consisted of word puzzles designed for lawyers and legal secretaries. She is employed at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa where she works with the greatest people on earth! She is the author of Silent Voices, a collection of poems, and a series of puzzle books including 101 Puzzles, Riddles and Rhymes for Cat Lovers and 101 Puzzles, Riddles and Rhymes for Attorneys. A Christian, she takes her greatest delight in acknowledging Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.




The Amazing Emoji Puzzle Book


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Kids will go puzzle crazy, emoji style with this jam-packed book featuring over 80 creative and educational puzzles. Die-hard puzzle fanatics and emoji lovers alike will enjoy tackling these brainteasers and using the emoji stickers to decorate their stuff and solve the puzzles. Get in on the emoji madness!