It’s win-win for the whole family: Kids love puzzles—and parents love their kids to love puzzles. Now from Puzzability—the premier puzzle-writing company whose mind-benders have appeared regularly in The New York Times and Disney Adventures, and repeatedly in The New Yorker and Martha Stewart Kids—comes a rich, original, and entertaining category-killer of a book with over 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject. Fully illustrated in color, here is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more. With a full range of difficulty, but all totally solvable, the puzzles are not meant to be tests. In fact they’re engaging and humorous, as fun to work on as they are satisfying to solve. In Gray Matter, readers first solve a short crossword, then use the letters in the puzzle to crack a riddle. Hot Lines involves matching kids to their clothing—based on tan lines. Flea Circuit is an unusual maze that you find your way out of by jumping around the page like a flea. A scavenger hunt runs through the book—solve every puzzle to amass the clues and earn the bound-in certificate of achievement. (Yes, the honor system applies.)

The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!

Children's Books

Goldstein, Amy

Shenk, Mike

Leighton, Robert

Activities, Crafts & Games

Workman Kids

An A-Z collection of more than 200 quirky, brain-bending, endlessly fun, and unusually unusual puzzles for kids aged 8-12. All you need are a sharp pencil and sharper wits! (An eraser wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.) Solve word searches with themes like Spies, Movies, or the Wild West—and when you’re finished, write out the leftover letters to discover a hidden message. Can’t get enough of the addictive fun of Sudoku? Introducing Dicedoku, which uses dice to represent numbers. Just try saying (or even reading) this tongue twister three times fast: Guy gargoyle, girl gargoyle! Plus hidden pictures, crosswords, spot the mistakes, and many kinds of puzzles you’ve never seen before. Puzzlelopedia also contains special “Puzzle Breakers” for reading about anagrams, code breaking, oxymorons, palindromes, and other bamboozling conundrums.

Puzzlelopedia: Mind-Bending, Brain-Teasing Word Games, Picture Puzzles, Mazes, and More (Kids Activity Book)

Workman Publishing Company

Sharpen your pencil and your wits and try your skills on brain-bending mind-stumpers of every kind! From Solitaire Battleships to wonderfully tricky and intricate mazes, more than 200 super puzzles provide hours of enjoyment. · Whodunit?: Help Professor of Criminology Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve devious crimes in this series of mini mysteries. · Be "Letter Perfect": Fill in the grid in this fun variation on a crossword. Every clue leads to a word that begins and ends with a designated letter. The last letter of the preceding word is also the first one of the next. Remember: always work in the direction of the numbers! · Go on a Word Search: Look up and down, across from left to right and from right to left, and diagonally to find the hidden words. If you're really good, try a hard "guess-the-theme" puzzle! And there's lots more in store, too.

Giant Book of Pencil Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Gordon, Peter

Diagram Group, The

Danna, Mark

Allen, Mayme

Kelsch, Janine

Sukach, Jim

Puzzles & Games

Main Street

Ships ahoy--ten of them, in fact--and you have to find them! This solitaire version of the classic paper and pencil game consists of an "ocean," represented by a grid, in which a flotilla of vessels is concealed. Each fleet contains one battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers, and four submarines, and they may be oriented either horizontally or vertically, but never occupy adjacent squares. Most of the puzzles start you off by revealing the contents of a few squares, and digits alongside and below the grid indicate the number of squares in the corresponding rows and columns that contain ships. Fill in what you know in squares adjacent to ship segments, fill in water in rows and columns that have all the segments in place, and fill in segments in rows and columns that must have all their remaining empty spaces completed in order to equal the corresponding number. Go step-by-step through sample puzzles to learn strategies for eliminating possibilities and clueing into likely arrangements. Puzzles are ranked according to difficulty.Keep on working, and you'll be sure to sink that enemy fleet! 96 pages, 284 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Solitaire Battleships: 108 Challenging Logic Puzzles

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

The Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzles, Vol. 2

Random House Puzzles & Games

The 50 Sunday-size puzzles in Volume 3 of this series are:·Specially-commissioned and edited to have a unique business-and-finance flavor·Created by today’s top puzzle authors·Lively and contemporary, with plenty of wordplay

The Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzles, Volume 3

Sharpen your pencil and your wits and try your skills on brain-bending mind-stumpers of every kind. From Solitaire Battleships to wonderfully tricky and intricate mazes, more than 200 super puzzles provide hours of enjoyment. * Whodunit?: Help Professor of Criminology Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve devious crimes in this series of mini mysteries. * Be "Letter Perfect": Fill in the grid in this fun variation on a crossword. Every clue leads to a word that begins and ends with a designated letter. The last letter of the preceding word is also the first one of the next. Remember: always work in the direction of the numbers! And there's a lot more in store, too.

Cloutier, Toni Lynn

With this solitaire version of 'Battleships', solo travelers can take the fun along, anywhere they go. The object of the game is to find the location of ten ships in a fleet, hidden in a section of ocean represented by a 10-by-10 grid. Six sample step-by-step puzzles guide readers into the basic strategy and they're on their own, ready to make their way up the ranks. Dozens of puzzles work out the brain, test your logic skills and pass the time.

Sit & Solve Travel Battleship Puzzles (Sit & Solve Series)

Puzzlewright

Here it is: the next big puzzle sensation, destined to join sudoku and kakuro as a bestselling blockbuster. Yubotu is the Japanese word for U-Boat” or submarine, and this collection plays a variation on the traditional favorite known as Battleships. It’s co-created by Peter Gordon and Mike Shenk, the team that first brought this type of puzzle to America. The object is to locate 10 ships in a fleetfour subs, three destroyers, two cruisers, and one battleshipall hidden in an ocean” represented by the spaces in a grid. An introduction explains all the basics in detail, taking solvers through a sample puzzle, with the puzzles getting more difficult as you go along until they’re absolutely brain-busting!

Yubotu: Sink the Fleet in These Addictive Battleship Puzzles

Conceptis Puzzles

Arts & Photography

Themed crossword puzzles to appeal to every one of USA TODAY’s 5.2 million devoted readers
What’s your pleasuremovies? Celebrities? Sports? Then do we have a puzzle book for you! Every one of these USA Today compilations offers a whopping 72 championship crosswords. Film buffs will enjoy testing their expertise on movie titles, costars, character names, and other trivia. Pop culture mavens can see whether they’ve got the lowdown on everything from TV shows to authors to the celebrity scene. Sports fans can show what they know about baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, tennis, and more.

USA TODAY® Celebrity & Pop Culture Crosswords

Payne, Trip

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Books by Shenk, Mike

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The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!

Puzzlelopedia: Mind-Bending, Brain-Teasing Word Games, Picture Puzzles, Mazes, and More (Kids Activity Book)

Giant Book of Pencil Puzzles

Solitaire Battleships: 108 Challenging Logic Puzzles

The Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzles, Vol. 2

The Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzles, Volume 3

Giant Book of Pencil Puzzles

Sit & Solve Travel Battleship Puzzles (Sit & Solve Series)

Yubotu: Sink the Fleet in These Addictive Battleship Puzzles

USA TODAY® Celebrity & Pop Culture Crosswords