Strain your brain with these seventy-five cognitive challenges you can do anywhere, alone or with others!NPR Puzzlemaster—as well as crossword editor for the New York Times—Will Shortz presents 75 verbal brainteasers to challenge all who enjoy wordplay.None of the puzzles require pen or paper, making them perfect for playing while standing in line, commuting to work, or hanging out with friends.

Amuse your mind and build your brain power with the verbal gymnastics found in these seventy-five word workouts from the acclaimed puzzle creator.Chronicle Books is pleased to continue the Puzzlemaster Deck line with this new deck from acclaimed NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times. Packed with seventy-five verbal brainteasers each, this deck will challenge all who enjoy wordplay. None of the puzzles require pen or pa...

This deck, from acclaimed Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times and regular guest on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, are packed with 75 brainteasers and mindbenders, each designed to challenge puzzlers of all stripes. A perfect gift for puzzle enthusiasts of all ages who want to test their brainpower while standing in line, commuting to work, or hanging out with friends.

Work out your brain with seventy-five short word puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty—perfect for game night, family car trips, or a solitary respite.This deck, from acclaimed Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times and regular guest on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, are packed with seventy-five brainteasers and mindbenders, each designed to challenge puzzlers of all stripes. A perfect gift for puzzle enthusiasts...

Portable, enjoyable hands-free puzzles from longtime NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and special guests.Will Shortz believes that “we’re living in the golden age of puzzles now . . . puzzles have never been better.” He should know. Shortz has been crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993 and NPR puzzlemaster even longer, challenging Weekend Edition Sunday listeners with on-air puzzles since the program’s start in 1987.This collection features Shortz ...

Thirty more puzzling mysteries from the pioneers of the Golden Age participatory mystery craze.Attention all armchair detectives! This clever and curious followup to The Baffle Book boasts thirty new short crime problems that emphasize the process of carefully sifting through evidence and arriving at logical conclusions. It includes all of the physical clues, diagrams, testimonies, and additional illustrations you’ll need to solve the crimes yourself. The ...

More than 1,300,000 answers—more than twice as many words as any other crossword dictionary.Meticulously compiled by two crossword professionals with a combined fifty years in the field and based on a massive analysis of current crosswords, there has never been a crossword dictionary with the breadth, depth, and currency of this one. From Jim Carrey to Sister Carrie, Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad, the wide-ranging entries include 500,000+ synonyms, 3,000+ literary ...

If you’re interested in how a puzzle constructor gets published in the New York Times, this is the book for you. If you enjoy solving crosswords and have a hidden desire to try solving some puzzles that never made it past the cutting room floor, this is the book for you. And, if you’d like to know more about Will Shortz, the New York Times puzzle editor, NPR’s puzzle master and close to omnipotent in the eyes of at least one crossword constructor, this is the book for you.“I hope y...

Vintage, pre-1923, edition of the classic reference work, with 14 illustrations. As explained in the preface: "The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words." John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 December 3, 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century a...

The classic reference work, in an edition first published before 1923. As a Word document, the file is over 14,000 pages long. We have added over 6,000 links to help you navigate to the word you want. (Searching for a word would take you to any instance of that word in definitions, not the word you want defined). With this version, you click on the first letter, then the first two letters, then on the word that's closest to to the one you want (like the guide words at the heads of pages in...

An affordable and accessible dictionary, fully updated, with over 15,00 0 headwords and 30,000 definition. Suitable for students, learners, school, home and office.