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Our 2021 book Mixed Puzzle Book for adults contains 100 new and fun puzzles across the following types. We've included brief instructions on each puzzle type below in case there are any you are unfamiliar with:
After noting I wasn’t going to include word searches, the first entry in this list is a word search. But this is a word search with a twist. Your challenge is to find the given words within a diagram, but all of those words are missing their vowels in the diagram. The word might be “Cabbage,” but you have to find “Cbbg” in the diagram. Certainly, this list of puzzle books has included an assortment of word puzzle games. But this collection is worth noting, too, as it offers up a wide variety of types of word puzzles beyond the ones that are maybe most familiar or comfortable to the average person. Also, it’s created and edited by David L. Hoyt and the team behind Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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For fans of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective series comes a collection of puzzles inspired by Holmes' most popular cases and adventures. Based on the BBC TV quiz of the same name, with a mix of games from the series and new ones created especially for this book, there’s sure to be something you and your family will enjoy – and it’s suitable for all ages, too. Maze Madness includes 60 mazes for you to try to master. The book boasts that it not only has traditionally challenging mazes, but it also includes 3D elements to make getting out of the maze even harder. Optical Illusions There are currently four books to test your PI skills, with over 100 puzzles in each: Code Breakers, Math & Logic Games, Visual Puzzles, and Lateral Brain Teasers.
The classic logic puzzle that uses numbers! In sudoku, the rules are compellingly simple although solving the puzzle may not be. Here you must place the numbers 1-9 once in each row, column and 3x3 box. There are various tactics that can help you to do this - for a start certain letters are much more popular in English than others, so the number that occurs the most time is usually the E, or possibly the T or A which are other common letters. There are also various other patterns common in English that can help you solve: for instance if you have the letter 'I' two from the end of a word, then it is often the case that the word ends in 'ING' or 'ION'. Often, you’re given vague details or descriptions and your job is to find the answer. These can be challenging, and they can also be really funny. Chances are that you’ve seen many lateral thinking puzzles throughout your time on social media—some of them make for great memes. The Little Book of Big Word Puzzles A protip from the creators is this: if there are more blanks in the puzzle, it’s likely a more challenging puzzle. They also note that, despite the fact there is some math involved, it’s far more about using logic in arranging numbers than it is about having to do a ton of math. Dot-to-DotThe classic wordsearch puzzle is an enduring, perennial favourite. The wordsearch puzzles in this mixed puzzle book for adults are all themed on a range of topics, and you must simply find the words in each of the grids. A word tower or word pyramid is a simple anagram variant puzzle where you must solve crossword clues alongside each row of a tower. On each subsequent row of the tower, the word is an anagram of the word on the row above it with an extra letter added. For instance, if the clue for the first clue is 'Consume food' with answer 'EAT', then you will know that the next answer is an anagram of 'EAT' plus one new letter. Therefore if the clue is 'Dislike intensely' then 'HATE's is a valid answer since it's an anagram of EAT+H. Did you know there is a huge assortment of puzzle books featuring the game hangman you remember from elementary school? There are, and they’re focused on adults who want to have some fun. Once you’re in the mindset of looking at images carefully and figuring out what is and is not going on, it’s only logical to then reach for picture puzzle books. It’s likely you first discovered these in a place like Highlights magazine, but now, you can rediscover them as an adult.
Calm Puzzles: More than 50 puzzles, including word searches, snakewords, word finders and wordwheels, to promote calm and mindfulness Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve had your mind bent with some fun optical illusions. These aren’t necessarily puzzles that you sit down with a pencil and find an answer to. Rather, they are puzzles you observe, that you question, and that make you wonder whether your eyes are seeing things (or whether your brain is making you see things that aren’t really there). There are many articles that outline the strategies that you can use to solve sudoku puzzles: the two most common rules are to consider the options that can be placed in an individual square (which numbers from 1-9 can go in this square?) and the second most common rule is 'where can a number go in this row/column/box region?). For instance, if there is only one square in a row that can contain a 3 then it must be placed there, since we know each row/column/box (called regions) must contain 1-9 exactly once each. This is a catch-all category of puzzle books, but perhaps one of the most comprehensive books is Puzzle Baron’s Logic Puzzles. The collection has 200 grid-based logic puzzles for you to try your hand at, ranging from easy to exceptionally challenging. You can also snap up 50 Logic Puzzles.
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This collection of over 450 puzzles includes “Mixed-Up Definition, unscramble the letters to reveal the definition of a given word. In Syllabary, use the clues to link syllables in a grid to create words. In Cross’d Word Connections, find the letters in common to help solve a series of four crossword puzzles. Plus Dictionary Race Winder, Make the Connection, Color Word Chains, Prism Word Finder, and other clever riffs on word searches. Remember when you’d sit down with a pencil and follow a series of mazes in your activity book and hope you’d come out the other side? You can relive that magic—or misery—with maze puzzles made for adults. They are, like coloring books and dot-to-dot books for grown ups, made more challenging because of how intricate they are. Over the course of my growing up, as much as I’ve loved puzzle books, I’ve fallen away from them. Once in a while I’ll grab one if I’m flying and can’t find anything good to read or if I’m dealing with a rough bout of depression and realize it’s the only way to stimulate my brain to do something. I tend to go for word searches and once in a great while, a fill-in-the-word. Crosswords are too challenging for me, and while I enjoy Soduku, sometimes that requires too much energy.
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