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.




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 Variants


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Everyone knows sudoku is enjoyable--but these addictive puzzles come in endless variations too! They range from simple to very difficult, and can take almost no time to finish...or require many hours. This entertaining collection showcases a wide range of possibilities, offering solvers who have become accustomed to the standard rules and grids an exciting new challenge. Select from Mega Sudokus that provide a real workout; Diagonals or Odd and Even versions with extra constraints; Sum Sudokus that merge with kakuro; and Multisudoku with overlapping puzzles. There's something for every level--12 x 12 puzzles, ones with irregularly shaped areas, even Mini Sudoku--and lots of fun for everyone.




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.




Jigsaw Sudoku: 400 Hard Jigsaw Sudoku Puzzles


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Also the puzzle may contain the regions of random (irregular) shape; this variant is called Jigsaw Sudoku ("Geometry Sudoku," "Geometry Number Place," "Irregular Sudoku," "Kikagaku Nanpure").




Mating


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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want. “Luminous…Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review “The best rendering of erotic politics…since D.H. Lawrence…The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.” —The New York Review of Books The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a compelling waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” —Newsweek




SUDOKU OMNIBUS


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Logic Puzzles 101


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101 hand-crafted puzzles to teach the art of logic for Masyu, Slitherlink, Yajilin, Nurikabe, and Fillomino puzzles. The puzzles range from easy to medium in difficulty, and are perfect for beginners just getting started with logic puzzles. However, even seasoned pros may learn a thing or two from this clever collection of puzzles.




The Slaughterman's Daughter


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"If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) **Winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize** **Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, "Book Club Award"** An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman). With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn’t like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement—certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose “philosopher” of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father’s profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession—she’s now the wife of a cheesemaker and a mother of five—Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg. Which might come in handy when, heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman traveling alone in czarist Russia, she sets off to track down Zvi-Meir and bring him home, with the help of the mute and mysterious ferryman Zizek Breshov, an ex-soldier with his own sensational past. Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that will pit the czar’s army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman’s Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.




The Orchard


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A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST. “Powerful and stirring, like a 2020 Jewish version of The Catcher in the Rye.” —Good Morning America A Recommended Book from: The New York Times * Good Morning America * Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature * The New York Post * Alma * The Millions * Book Riot A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself. Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers’ dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life’s pleasures. When the academy’s golden boy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the school’s most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and defiant—especially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the shadow of his mother’s death. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in unconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and careening toward a perilous future—one in which the traditions of their faith are repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends. Mesmerizing and playful, heartrending and darkly romantic, The Orchard probes the conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of youth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed desires.