Today Programme - Puzzle Book

Author: BBC
Publisher: Cassell
ISBN: 1788401131
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
***The puzzle book of 2018*** The Today Programme Puzzle Book is perfect for fans of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Book. Which is the only letter of the alphabet not to appear in the name of any US state? Can YOU solve the Puzzle for Today? Tackle the conundrums that have been frustrating and confounding the nation on Radio 4's Today programme. The Today Programme Puzzle Book challenges you with over 280 cryptic, linguistic & numerical brainteasers designed by the greatest puzzles masters around the world from Mensa, UK Mathematics Trust, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Japanese puzzle masters & many more. Chapters include: Common-sense Conundrums Flags, Capitals & Nations Maths & Language Further Maths New Puzzles BBC Today Presenters' Puzzles Celebrity Setters Christmas Crackers So, challenge your grey matter and hone your reasoning and logic skills with the brainteasers that manage to get the nation's synapses firing every morning. With a foreword by Sarah Sands, editor of the Today programme. Introductions to each chapter by Tom Feildon, the BBC Science Editor. [Answer: The letter Q]

The GCHQ Puzzle Book

Author: GCHQ
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN: 9780718185541
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
** WINNER OF 'STOCKING FILLER OF THE YEAR AWARD' GUARDIAN ** Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation, GCHQ. 'A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas' Guardian 'Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle' Daily Telegraph If 3=T, 4=S, 5=P, 6=H, 7=H ...what is 8? What is the next letter in the sequence: M, V, E, M, J, S, U, ? Which of the following words is the odd one out: CHAT, COMMENT, ELF, MANGER, PAIN, POUR? GCHQ is a top-secret intelligence and security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe, from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack. So it comes as no surprise that, even in their time off, the staff at GCHQ love a good puzzle. Whether they're recruiting new staff or challenging each other to the toughest Christmas quizzes and treasure hunts imaginable, puzzles are at the heart of what GCHQ does. Now they're opening up their archives of decades' worth of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try. In this book you will find: - Tips on how to get into the mindset of a codebreaker - Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending - A competition section where we search for Britain's smartest puzzler Good luck! 'Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph

Go Dog, Go! a Puzzle Book

Author: P. D. Eastman
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375800825
Category : Stories in rhyme
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After more than 30 years as a best-selling classic, there's something brand-new to love about P. D. Eastman's Go, Dog. Go! With four 12-piece puzzles in one book, the Go, Dog. Go! puzzle book will keep children ages two to four go-go-going for hours.

The Parenting Puzzle

Author: Candida Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954470906
Category : Parent and child
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Focusing as much on the emotional well-being of the parent as on the needs of the child, this non-prescriptive guide is based on the Nurturing Programme, a ten-week course that encourages parents and carers to enjoy bringing up children and get the best out of family life.

Brain Games - Criminal Mind Puzzles

Author: Publications International Ltd.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781640306738
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Use your verbal, visual, and logic skills to investigate an array of puzzles! This puzzle collection contains a mix of verbal and visual puzzles themed around crimes and investigation. Read about true crimes and see how you much you can remember Play detective as you find witnesses, use logic to track down criminals, and see what details you can decipher in crime scenes Spiral bound 192 pages

Rainy Day Pocket Puzzle Book

Author: Simon Tudhope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409598497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A perfectly portable puzzle book, ideal for use anywhere you are on a rainy day or when there's free time! Featuring tricky mazes, colourful picture puzzles, spot-the-difference, true or false, jumbled sequence and number puzzles.

Lateral Logic

Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782436898
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Learn to open your mind and unlock your natural abilities to solve all kinds of real-life conundrums with this programme designed to improve your lateral thinking, from bestselling brain-training and puzzle book author Gareth Moore.

The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book

Author: Alan Connor
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473532248
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Attention all Shipping Forecast fans. Set sail on a voyage unlike any other... Each day, millions tune in to hear the Shipping Forecast's unique cadence and poetry, words thatturn our island landscape into something strangeand magical. It's almost like a puzzle to be solved... The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book tests your general knowledge and lateral thinking through a series of fiendish puzzles, in which all the answers can be found on a map as place names on the coasts or in the seas. For example: · An eagle's under this · What a Komodo Dragon really is · Near where someone was horribly cruel to 343 felines And because your voyages trace the shapes of letters of the alphabet, that's just the beginning... With a foreword by Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, and fully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book will help make you a Master of the quizzing world.

Puzzle a Day

Author: Phillip Clarke
Publisher: Activity Pads
ISBN: 9781409564522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A write-in, tear-off pad containing a different puzzle for each day of the year, plus an extra one for leap years. Includes wordsearches, crosswords, picture puzzles and more. Perfect for keeping children entertained in restaurants, on planes, trains or wherever they happen to be. Also suitable for sharing between a group of children at parties and sleepovers.

Mini Books Easter Puzzles

Author: Simon Tudhope
Publisher: Usborne Minis
ISBN: 9781474947770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Help the Easter bunny find all the lost eggs, guide the spring lamb back to her mother and piece together a broken Easter egg. Have a go at these puzzles and many more in this fun-packed puzzle book. Covering puzzles from mazes, spot the difference, dot-to-dot and more, all based on bright and colourful scenes filled with bunnies, eggs and other spring paraphernalia, this little book of puzzles is the perfect way to keep children entertained at Easter time. A light and compact puzzle book that's perfect for taking on journeys. Part of a growing range of mini paperbacks, including puzzle books, sticker books and drawing books.