Author: Daily Mail Publisher: Hamlyn ISBN: 9780600623571 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
At last a compilation of general knowledge crosswords from your favouriteSunday newspaper! With over 100 puzzles with questions on a myriad ofsubjects, there is plenty here to flex your memory muscles and keep youentertained for hours. From classical music to the latest films, Mail on Sunday PrizeCrossword Volume 1 is perfect for quiz fans and puzzle lovers alike.
Author: The Mail On Sunday Publisher: Hamlyn ISBN: 9780600637165 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
*** Enjoy this fantastic collection of puzzles from the Mail on Sunday. Compiled by Mitchell Symons, these challenging crosswords will test your general knowledge and allow you to build a variety of facts on the tip of your tongue. Perfect for seasoned puzzlers and novices alike, The Mail on Sunday General Knowledge Crosswords 1 are ideal for quiz and crossword lovers.
Author: Daily Mail Publisher: Hamlyn ISBN: 9780600632696 Category : Crossword puzzles Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Test your puzzling skills with this new book of Daily Mail Giant Crosswords. With both 'Cryptic' and 'Quick' clues for each super-size crossword, how you tackle them is up to you, whether you're up for a frustratingly tricky challenge, or a more speedy approach.
Author: The Times Mind Games Publisher: Collins ISBN: 9780008195762 Category : Crossword puzzles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles From the puzzles section of The Times our Editors have chosen the best selection of general-knowledge and definition crossword puzzles to keep even the most eager enthusiasts entertained for hours. This collection of 300 accessible puzzles is utterly addictive, yet concise enough to be solved relatively quickly. Encompassing a wide range of subjects including geography, literature, history and culture, these general-knowledge and definition-based puzzles will test your word power and broaden your horizons at the same time. With clues that are satisfyingly skillful and containing no cryptic elements, these crosswords are guaranteed to stretch your mind and entertain you equally. Puzzles taken from previously published titles.
Author: Daily Mail Publisher: Hamlyn ISBN: 9780600636236 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Get your mind in gear with Daily Mail Quick Crosswords Volume 1! This brand new collection of demanding puzzles from the Daily Mail puzzle pages contains over 200 grids in a variety of difficulties. Whether on-the-go, or having a spare moment at home, these fun brainteasers are guaranteed to put minds of all ages and abilities through their paces!
Author: Daily Mail Publisher: Hamlyn ISBN: 9780600621225 Category : Crossword puzzles Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Test your mental-might against a brand new collection of the Daily Mail's Giant Crosswords, the king of the Saturday Coffee break section. 100 gigantic grids offer you hours of entertainment as you attempt to find the 88 missing words on each page, with their two-speed format making them ideal for crossword lovers of all ages and abilities - choose to use either 'Cryptic' or 'Quick' clues to surmount the colossal challenge and prove to your peers that you're anything but clueless. Perfect for lazy weekends and tiresome train journeys, Giant Crosswords Volume 4 is sure to keep your mind firing on all cylinders.
Author: The Times Mind Games Publisher: Times Books ISBN: 9780008300890 Category : Crossword puzzles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Give your word skills a serious workout, stimulate your brain cells and test your all-round general knowledge with 100 definition-style puzzles from The Sunday Times.Do you find cryptic crosswords too much of a chore? Do you want your general knowledge and word power to be tested but not put through the mill? Are you on the lookout for something to pass the time on a train or plane journey? We have just what you are looking for. It includes 100 crosswords, set out in a clear, easy-to-use double-page spread. The clues are mostly definition-based. There will be clues for which more than one answer is possible, so it's best to look for a clearly unique answer or unique possible combination of crossing answers as the first to write in.
Author: Alan Connor Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141977116 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the Guardian's writer on crosswords On 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old. In the century since, it has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional puzzles, to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the form into the fiendish sport it is today, encompassing the most challenging clues, particular tricks, the world's greatest setters and famous solvers, PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition, this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very particular form of wordplay. Note: The book begins with a puzzle in a standard 15-by-15 grid which incorporates all the basic clue types. The answers are also the chapter titles. Alan Connor writes twice-weekly about crosswords for the Guardian. He has contributed pieces about language for the BBC and the Guardian and works in radio and television, writing for Charlie Brooker, Caitlin Moran and Sue Perkins. His most recent writing was A Young Doctor's Notebook, a TV adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov stories starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm.
Author: Joshua Kosman Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games ISBN: 9780812936605 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The National Puzzlers' League (NPL) was founded in 1883 and is the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world. For over 100 years, crosswords and other word puzzles that appear in the NPL's monthly magazine, The Enigma, could be enjoyed only by NPL members. Now, for the first time, a selection of the league's favorite cryptic crosswords is available in book form for puzzle fans everywhere to enjoy. Unlike regular crossword puzzles, each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts--one that's straightforward and one that involves one or more types of wordplay--and part of the fun is determining which part is which and what type of wordplay is involved. For example, Shoestring allowances lead to tears (11) is a cryptic clue for LACERATIONS. The straightforward part of the clue is tears, which is a definition for LACERATIONS. The wordplay part of the clue is Shoestring allowances which can be expressed as LACE + RATIONS which lead to LACERATIONS. The number in parentheses tells you the number and length of the answer words--in this case, it's one 11-letter word. Another example, with a different type of wordplay is Rearrange, rearrange ram's front (9) which is a cryptic clue for TRANSFORM. Rearrange is a straightforward definition of TRANSFORM and rearrange ram's front tells you to rearrange, or anagram, the nine letters in ram's front giving you the nine-letter word TRANSFORM. One of most fascinating things about cryptics is that the clues are a combination of tremendous creativity and imagination, on one hand, and strict, formal rules, on the other. This book contains 45 variety cryptics from members of the NPL, many of them by distinguished puzzle authors, as well as a foreword by Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword editor and the NPL's official historian PuzzleMeter: Difficulty--Very Difficult; Style--Contemporary]
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