Edgar Allan Poe's Puzzles from Beyond the Grave

Edgar Allan Poe's Puzzles from Beyond the Grave
Author: Jason Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Puzzles
ISBN: 9781787391024

In Edgar Allan Poe's Puzzles from Beyond the Grave, author Jason Ward re-imagines Poe's writings to create a challengingly fiendish - and occasionally frightening - series of riddles and puzzles which are sure to get the pulses racing of even the most hardened puzzle-solvers. As the great man said: 'The true genius shudders at incompleteness.' So make sure to complete these puzzles... or risk incurring the wrath of Edgar Allan Poe himself. Step into the Gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe and become part of his terrifying tales - just long enough to solve the riddles and conundrums found there. The acclaimed American writer, who is seen as the inventor of detective fiction, created some of the best-known and most-loved macabre stories and was an expert in the art of cryptography and mystery. Step into his world, if you dare!

Tangrams

Tangrams
Author: Ronald C. Read
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486801292

This collection gathers together nearly 330 tangrams, the best creations of both Chinese and Occidental puzzle devisers. Puzzles range from the relatively easy to the difficult.

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374279127

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The Total Brain Workout

The Total Brain Workout
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 142682954X

Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.

The Great Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Book

The Great Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Book
Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1788885546

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. -Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four. Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of over 130 fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas.Some involve riddles, some plays on words, and some rely on mathematical principles. Use your powers of logical deduction, and see if you can match the towering intellect of Sherlock Holmes. Not only does this collection include brilliant puzzles to ponder over, but it presents these quandaries within exchanges between Holmes and Watson. In this way, this puzzle book retains the same cosy Victorian charm that Holmes' tales are so loved for. Featuring the original pen and ink illustrations by Sidney Paget and George Hutchinson, this gorgeously designed puzzle book will immerse you in Holmes's mysteries and keep you entertained for hours!

Bletchley Park Brainteasers

Bletchley Park Brainteasers
Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9781635061208

WOULD BLETCHLEY PARK-THE TOP-SECRET HOME OF BRITISH WORLD WAR II CODEBREAKERS-HAVE RECRUITED YOU' PUT YOUR MENTAL AGILITY TO THE TEST WITH THESE FIENDISHLY CHALLENGING PUZZLES AND FIND OUT. Have a knack for mastering Morse code' Want to discover whether your crossword hobby might have seen you recruited into the history books' Think you could have contributed to the effort to crack the Nazis' infamous Enigma code' Then this book about Bletchley Park was custom-made for you. When scouring the population for codebreakers, Bletchley Park recruiters left no stone unturned. They devised various ingenious mind-twisters to assess the puzzle-solving capacity of these individuals-hidden codes, cryptic crosswords, secret languages, and complex riddles. These puzzles, together with the fascinating recruitment stories that surround them, are contained in this book, endorsed by Bletchley Park itself. Though they had diverse backgrounds, the codebreakers of Bletchley Park were united in their love of a good puzzle. If you are of the same persuasion, put your intelligence to the test with the mind-boggling puzzles on these pages and ask yourself: Would Bletchley Park have recruited YOU'