The Art of Puzzles


Book Description

The Art of Puzzles is a collection of mental masterpieces from the world's most talented puzzle designers. With ten genres of logic puzzles and over 270 puzzles in total, this book has a great mix of challenges including shading puzzles (Tapa and Nurikabe), loop puzzles (Masyu and Slitherlink), number placement puzzles (Skyscrapers and TomTom), object placement puzzles (Star Battle and Battleships), and region division puzzles (Cave and Fillomino). Each section has a mix of very easy to fiendishly hard puzzles, with hints for every puzzle to help you to become a better logic puzzler.




A Scent of Champagne


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A luxury volume on the world's most elegant beverage--by world renowned champagne expert Richard Juhlin, with an introduction by Édouard Cointreau In this beautiful and heavily illustrated volume the world's foremost champagne expert, Richard Juhlin takes the reader on a journey to the geographical area of Champagne and through the history of the beverage. With rich photography to accompany the text he explains how to arrange tastings, develop one’s sense of smell, and why the setting where you drink champagne is important. He also includes personal anecdotes about his lifelong journey from teacher to connoisseur as well as a reference guide describing and ranking an incredible 8,000 champagne houses, types, and vintages. Sit back and enjoy Juhlin’s graceful prose with a lovely glass of champagne, the beverage that has come to epitomize luxury and elegance. This is a must have edition for any serious collector and lover of champagne.




The Times Train Tracks


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This challenging visual puzzle will appeal to lovers of logic and deduction brain teasers. How To Play: A map grid shows two towns, typically A and B. The objective of the puzzle is to lay down tracks to connect the two towns. Numbers around the outside of the grid tell you how many pieces of track are to be placed in each row and column. You can only use straight (horizontal and vertical) and curved (right and left) rails and the track cannot cross over itself. There is something very satisfying in the laying down of tracks. The puzzles are arranged with varying levels of difficulty, where difficulty is largely dependent on the size of the map grid (from 6x6 to 10x10). Puzzles included cover three levels of difficulty: 70 Easy, 70 Moderate, and 60 Difficult.




Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat


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This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.




Relaxing Dot-To-Dot for Adults


Book Description

It's time to be driven dotty, but in a good way! Welcome to our collection of hand-made dot-to-dot puzzles, containing over 15,000 dots for you to connect! The rules are simple: starting at number 1, draw a line to dot 2, then 3 and so on. In addition, these extra-challenging puzzles also contain some hollow dots. When you reach a hollow/white dot, this indicates that the current line stops. You should then look for the next dot which will also be hollow and draw a new line starting there. Full instructions and an example of this are featured inside the book. Once you've reached the end dot, you've finished the puzzle! All puzzles have a minimum of 400 dots, right up to over 1,000. However, even with that many dots on a page, we've worked hard to ensure we are consistent with the position of every single dot in this book from start to finish: the dot is always positioned to the left of each number. This removes any ambiguity that can occur from having dots in different places relative to their numbers in the same puzzle, so by checking the position of a dot relative to a number it is always possible to work out which dot goes with each number throughout the book. Our puzzles are printed on high quality paper with only one puzzle printed per two pages, so there is always a blank reverse side. Thus if you decide to colour in a puzzle once finished, pen marks going through to the other side of the page won't affect any other puzzle. We do recommend using a pencil for drawing the dots to allow for a neater line and also any corrections that may need to be made. That's all there is to it! Delve in to this collection of relaxing and satisfying puzzles and take a trip back to those carefree moments as a child. Creating beautiful artwork along the way, we are sure that you will enjoy completing all 31 puzzles and being driven dotty for dots!




Arrow Word Puzzles


Book Description

Arrow Word Puzzles Welcome to this fantastic collection of arrow word puzzles, designed to truly test your knowledge and solving skills. Featured inside this book is a great mix of 100 full page puzzles. The rules are simple: simply answer the crossword style clues in the direction of the arrows in order to fill the grid. Solutions are at the back of the book if you need a helping hand along the way. Puzzles are printed on high quality crisp white paper on a large 6x9 inch page size. For other puzzle books, visit www.puzzle-book.co.uk




Dead Spy Running


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Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time. A competitor is strapped with explosives, and if he drops his pace, everyone around him will be killed, including the U.S. ambassador to London. Marchant tries to thwart the attack, but is he secretly working for the terrorists? There are those who already suspect him of treachery. Just like they suspected his late father, the former head of MI6, who was removed from his job and accused of treason. On the run from the CIA, Marchant is determined to prove his father's innocence. His quest to do so takes him from the streets of London to India, where the U.S. president is due for his first visit. Marchant soon finds that to clear his family's name he will have to expose a plot that could throw world politics into chaos. In Dead Spy Running, Jon Stock delivers a breakneck thriller that updates the spy novel for the twenty-first century.




Battleship Sudoku


Book Description

Battleship - the classic HASBRO board game - has been popular for years. Sudoku, of course, is the craze that's won millions of converts. This title brings two games together to create a novel hybrid that's a real brain-buster. It includes boats that have numbers and aims to place the ships and complete the sudoku at the same time.




The Librarian's Almanaq


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The Librarian's Almanaq is the culmination of Literally centuries Of tremendous work by a dedicated team Of researchers who just couldn't Keep it under wraps. Here, you'll get the advice you need to be successful in the World and learn the sine qua non of puzzledom. Never before has a wealth of Information like This been gathered in one place, let alone a single volume. Your Hunger for sacred knowledge can finally be sated! Examine the Almanaq carefully and make sure to read the Instructions, and you can turn onto a New path toward enlightenment. [The Librarian's Almanaq is an all-in-one puzzlehunt, an interconnected suite of a dozen unique and fun puzzles, culminating in a satisfying conclusion, and all put together in a form you've never seen before. Solving time is 8-40 hours for 1 person; proportionally less for groups. You will need a large table or floor space to work on, plus a pen or pencil, scissors, and transparent tape to solve the puzzles. A highlighter, felt-tip marker, and a live duck would be handy.]




The Art of Sudoku


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You've never seen Sudoku like this! In The Art of Sudoku you'll find 120 hand-crafted masterpieces from World Sudoku Champion Thomas Snyder, with artistic and logical themes that could never have been produced by random computer generation. Whether you're a sudoku novice or a sudoku grandmaster, The Art of Sudoku will open your eyes to the amazing possibilities of this numbers puzzle and leave you wanting more.