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]

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 BBC Puzzle Book

Author: Ian Haydn Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 0711277664
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
See how much you and your family know about the Beeb with this lively and fun official puzzle book on the BBC.

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

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.

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.

USA TODAY Up & Down Words Infinity

Author: U. S. A. USA TODAY
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449410014
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is a new puzzle book concept based on the hit puzzle featured each day in USA TODAY. In Up and Down Words Infinity, the second half of an answer becomes the first half of the next answer. Once started, Up and Down Words Infinity don't stop. The last half of the answer on the bottom of a page becomes the first half of the next answer on the following page. The book becomes one connected puzzle that can be played in sections. Solvers can work forward or backward from anywhere in the book. Packaged in a compact 4 x 6 trim size, USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is the perfect puzzle book for the commute or the waiting room. The book fits easily into any size bag or briefcase.

The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book

Author: Philip Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352994
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The British Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys, and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples ranging from world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps, curiosities and fake maps have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book. Each map is faithfully reproduced with a description of its creation and use, followed by details showing areas of particular interest. Readers are asked to scrutinize the maps to answer a series of historical and geographical questions, all the while enjoying new perspectives on the world we live in provided by our eclectic and extensive archive.

Crochet the Golden Girls

Author: Allison Hoffman
Publisher: Becker & Mayer! Books
ISBN: 9780760367827
Category : Crochet
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Grab a crochet hook and head out to the lanai because it's time to stitch up your favorite sassy senior ladies! This officially licensed kit includes all the materials and instructions needed to make your own adorable Sophia doll complete with her signature purse, plus patterns to create Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy as well as fun accessories and props from the classic show that continues to have a cult following. Follow the book's step-by-step instructions and how-to photos to crochet 10 projects: all four Golden Girls plus their iconic couch, Fernando Rose's teddy bear, two versions of cheesecake, a functional coin purse styled after Sophia's classic wicker purse, and a palm leaf brooch.