Ahoy, mateys! Landlubbers and pirates alike love Sudoku but there's a new puzzle in town – Word Doku! Use your logic skills to fill in the nine letters of a word instead of boring old numbers. But not just any old word, it's a pirate word! Kids will love the challenge of finding the six– or nine–letter word treasure buried in each puzzle. 
 Ages: 8 +

Pirate Word-Doku

Children's Books

Stickels, Terry

Literature & Fiction

HarperFestival

Presto! A great magician has created a new twist on the latest puzzle craze. Prepare your magic wands (and pencils) to conjure up the six–or nine–letter word hidden in each Word–Doku puzzle. It could be anything from goblin to cauldrons! With more than one hundred mesmerizing puzzles, it's hours of magickal fun!

Magick Word-Doku

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins

Everyone who is fascinated by logic, spatial-visual and/or math puzzles knows Terry Stickles' name. His puzzles have tantalized and often stumped not only super-adept puzzle mavens, but the rest of us. He has published books, puzzles, articles about puzzling, and sets of puzzle cards -- all eagerly snapped up by those thousands who can't get enough of brainteasers. His puzzles have appeared on National Public Radio's puzzle program, in Discover and Games Magazines, and he was asked to provide challenges for the recent World Puzzle Convention. But one trait in particular sets Stickles' teasers above so many others: every one is original. Stickles agrees that recycling is a public duty, but not, he says, when it comes to puzzles. So whether one starts at the beginning section of So You Think You're Smart, Huh? where the author is kind enough to launch us with more gentle challenges (but still challenges, and don't forget it!) or the latter section, where he gets really tough, the reader will find wonderful fun, refreshing brain workouts, and the deep satisfaction of matching wits with the country's most prominent puzzlemaker --and coming out ahead. Sometimes.

Are You as Smart as You Think?: 150 Original Mathematical, Logical, and Spatial-Visual Puzzles for All Levels of Puzzle Solvers

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

St. Martin's: Griffin

Terry Stickels is a master puzzlemaker known for the fascinating variety and many forms of his original puzzles. As in his previous book, Are You as Smart as You Think?, he challenges readers with a mix of narrative puzzles to be solved with logical thinking, number puzzles that demand common sense but not higher math, and his very popular "frame games"-puzzles that mix pictures, letters, and numbers to provide fun for puzzlers of every age.

Just How Smart Are You? 201 Original Mathematical, Logical, and Spatial-Visual Puzzles for All Levels of Puzzle Solvers

Puzzling Frame Games

Scholastic. Inc.

This book challenges you to every coin puzzle imaginable! From tic tac tow with nickels and dimes to coin poetry, get ready to dive into the world of coins.

Challenging Coin Puzzles

Scholastic Paperbacks

Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school students. In these two new collections, puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles and brain games that range from simple to challenging and are organized by grade level and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content areas. Each book offers over 300 brain games that will help students learn core math concepts and develop critical thinking skills. The books include a wide range of puzzle types and cover a variety of math topics, from fractions and geometry to probability and algebra.

Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 3-5: Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Math Puzzles and Games, Grades 6-8: Over 300 Reproducible Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem Solving

Reference

"Fun and highly formidable math problems and puzzles from noted puzzle creator Terry Stickels." — Window on Resources Two friends wish to meet for breakfast twice a month throughout the year. In how many ways can they choose those two days so that they never meet on consecutive days? You want to measure 30 seconds and you have two pieces of string, each of which burns for 40 seconds. How can you accomplish this without bending, folding, or cutting the strings? A positive whole number is divisible by 3 and also by 5. When the number is divided by 7, the remainder is 5. What is the smallest number that could work? These are but a few of this book's assembly of the most challenging puzzles imaginable ― and they require no background in higher math, just good thinking skills. Terry Stickels, a well-known puzzle-maker, has compiled 101 of some of the best and most entertaining problems ever published. All of the challenges, which range from probability puzzles to dice games, have two things in common: each offers the "Aha!" moment of discovery that puzzle-solvers love, and they're all fun. Complete solutions for all puzzles explain every detail.

Challenging Math Problems (Dover Math Games & Puzzles)

Science & Math

Mathematics

Dover Publications

Sudoku enthusiasts, rejoice! Here's a collection that features scores of engrossing puzzles that promise to truly test your skills. Created by Terry Stickels, a nationally syndicated puzzle-maker, the challenges range in difficulty from medium and hard to very hard and extremely difficult. Don't worry if you're truly stumped ― complete solutions appear at the end of the book.

Savage Sudoku: 140 Puzzles to Test Your Skills (Dover Math Games & Puzzles)

Immanuvel, Anthony

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