The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books)

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198059
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting: boru niko = two balls tsuna nihon = two ropes uma nito = two horses kami nimai = two sheets of paper ashi gohon = five legs ringo goko = five apples sara gomai = five plates kaba goto = five hippos Now, how do the Japanese say “nine cucumbers”?* a) kyuri kyuhon b) kyuri kyuko c) kyuri kyuhiki d) kyuri kyuto Bellos finds the intrigue—and the human element—in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this is a bravura book of brainteasers and beyond—it’s a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language. *The word endings depend on shape: Flat things end in -mai and spherical things end in -ko. Cucumbers are long things (like ropes and legs), so they end in -hon. The answer is (a)!

The American Sign Language Puzzle Book Volume 2

Author: Justin Segal
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071712232
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
It's the most fun you can have while learning to sign! The follow-up to the bestselling The American Sign Language Puzzle Book, this fun guide from ASL signer Justin Segal gives you tons more of your favorite brainteasers, word searches, scrambles, and crosswords to help you learn the signs with ease. Whether you're a beginning or advanced signer, you'll improve your skills in no time with: A fresh variety of puzzles that will broaden your ASL vocabulary Expressive drawings that show exact hand movements, including placement, direction, and repetition Puzzles designed to increase your ability to construct phrases A complete answer key you can use to keep track of your progress

Food and Wine Lover's Puzzle and Quiz Book

Author: The Puzzle Society
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740785095
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Quite possibly the perfect combination: food and wine paired with challenging puzzles. The Food and Wine Lover's Puzzle and Quiz Book features over 200 word challenges and quizzes. It's just what the foodie ordered. All the puzzles are crafted with epicurean-themes that will excite just about anyone's palate. The beautiful food-and-wine-themed design is a perfect complement to the fun and challenging puzzles inside. The collection features crosswords, word search, wordwheel, codewords, arrowords, kriss kross, pathfinder, and logic problems.

Can You Solve My Problems?

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN: 9781783351145
Category : Mathematical recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A high-class puzzle book from the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland; organised from easy-peasy to ninja level - with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.

Puzzle Masterpieces

Author: Patrick Berry
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402760655
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Words, prepare to meet your master--and sophisticated solvers, prepare for a treat. Patrick Berry's puzzles are unparalleled; whether in the "New York Times" or "Games Magazine," everything he touches turns to mind-stretching gold. And now he has created the most eye-catching crosswords ever seen, in a collection that's as visually gorgeous as it is mentally stimulating. The grids in these puzzles don't look anything like typical crosswords--instead, they come in a variety of shapes, each with its own unique twist. Of course, these attractive challenges are all filled with the freshest words and phrases, and clued with a wicked sense of wordplay. This handsome volume would make the perfect gift for any word lover.

So You Think You've Got Problems?

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN: 9781783351909
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?

Puzzle Books for Adults

Author: Callisto Media
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646114085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615198040
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
100 challenging puzzles for would-be codebreakers that also celebrate the uniqueness of language—from hieroglyphics to the sign language of silent monks

Language Lover's Puzzle Book

Author: George Bredehorn
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806944159
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The verdict on these word games will be unanimous: they're the best, most enjoyably challenging ever! Here's just a bit of what awaits you inside: * Split Decisions, popular in The New York Times, give you a few letters that repeat in two words and you fill in the blanks. * The Ultimate Crossword features numbers in each box that stand for letters: figure out the connections and you're on your way to completing the puzzle. * Go Two by Two: Only two different letters are needed to complete these miniature crisscross puzzles. All the vowels have been placed for you. Pick two consonants and repeat them as often as necessary to finish each grid. * Words are playing hide-and-seek in Big Words A-Hiding: The grid conceals five words that have ten letters or more. Start anywhere and search left, right, up, or down--but not diagonally.

Sit and Solve Word Puzzles

Author: George Bredehorn
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806988696
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Grab a pencil, get started, and soon you'll be exercising your brain (and, with a little luck, a few other muscles, too). While you're waiting for nature to take its course, try some clueless crosswords, where you fill in the blanks to form eight seven-letter words. Or, do double exposures, where you first figure out the six-letter words that read from top to bottom in the columns; that reveals only half the letters, so then you'll have to take one from the top squares of each column and transfer it to the blank above to reveal a phrase. Also fill-in stations, split decisions, two-by-twos, and lots more like this one: