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"Lead kids on a tour of spooky sights! Zombies, witches, monsters, and other spine-chilling creatures make finding the hidden objects in the full-color photo puzzles a BOO-tastic challenge. Pictographs and word labels are included in each to-find list"-- Provided by publisher.
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Inheritance games volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"-- Publisher.
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Inheritance games volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES!
Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the beloved bestselling The Inheritance Games
The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions—including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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The Candyman's Treasure Hunt The Orb Travelers will award the finder a $100,000 annuity paid out over 20-years.
This Treasure Hunt is NOT, designed for the amateur. This treasure hunt will take great solving skills and boots on the ground somewhere within the continental USA. Please be aware that this could be, solved in a weekend or could take years. It is not in a dangerous location.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Try not to go insane as you enter the world of master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, with this fascinating collection of cunning puzzles and curious riddles. The ground-breaking master of mystery and horror Edgar Allan Poe was fascinated by puzzles and codes, as well as being the inventor of detective fiction. So, you will need your wits about you, as you hone your own skills...
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A smart way to teach children to think logically and creatively
One of the most precious gifts you can offer a child is a sharp mind. The 56 puzzles in this delightful collection were passed down through generations of Chinese families who wanted their children to develop concentration and mental agility. Baifang spent hours enjoying them with her family and friends as she was growing up in the north of China. Now living in San Francisco, Baifang...
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Pet Rescue Saga is a puzzle game that is available on Facebook. It is a game that requires the player to remove blocks of the same color to be able to rescue pet animals hence it was named Pet Rescue Saga. The game is available for free. If you have a Facebook account, you can play it as you chat or view your newsfeed on the site. The game is also available through apps so that you can play it via an iPhone, an iPod Touch or through an iPad. There...
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The noted expert and longtime author of Scientific American's Mathematical Games column selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles. Enthusiasts can challenge their skills with such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Complete solutions included.
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Are you already a puzzle fan? Or do you want to find a new hobby? Have you ever wondered how to make your own jigsaw puzzles or simply broaden your puzzling hobby? Then here is a book for you! Whether you are an avid fan or a beginner, this book will equip you with everything you need to know about the much-loved jigsaw puzzle as well as how to make your very own creations. Whilst providing information on the history of puzzles, benefits of puzzles...
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Do you like to play head games? Do brain teasers tickle your mind? Well if yes then test your mathematical skills with Mathemagic Puzzles & Brain Drainers. Puzzles and Brain teasers are fun ways to get students enjoying and thinking about maths. The think smart puzzles in this book are designed to sharpen the creativity and problem solving skills and challenge and entertain the students likewise. The book is loaded with perplexing puzzles for every...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The World Chess Championship has existed since 1886. But with this final, it became a front-page story for the first time. The games made news on television and stars of commentators. The meaning of the confrontation seemed clear to Western commentators: a lone American star was challenging the long Soviet grip on the world title.
#2 The end of the cold war has allowed...
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With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing... presently... details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold-everywhere the glint of gold.
Howard Carter
Lost to antiquity, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was rediscovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Its hidden location in the Valley...
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Learn how to take the "tease" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your...
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Divide a rectangular cake into five even pieces, calculate the cost of running a successful casino, figure out the maximum number of losses on the road to winning the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, and solve other amusing and challenging puzzles - including a mathematical brainteaser involving a couple of holes of golf on the surface of the moon. In addition to logical puzzles and mathematical paradoxes, this original collection features a variety...
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Travel with Alice down the rabbit hole into the fantastic world of Wonderland, and help a cast of extraordinary characters solve these tantalising puzzles and enigmas.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, was a huge fan of puzzles and was said to have invented the word ladder. In this book you can deduce the card hand of Tweedledee, decide which bottle contains the growing potion and calculate...
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Award-winning author Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner's first collection of one-minute mysteries has sold more than 100,000 copies, and now the two offer more fun thinking puzzles for super-sleuths of all ages. It's an entertaining book for the whole family.
Each one-page mystery is illustrated with a hilarious cartoon that presents an obvious (and obviously incorrect!) solution. Readers can turn to a page of clues, each one revealing more information...
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Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Nihilist, grille, U. S. Army, key-phrase, multiple-alphabet, Gronsfeld, Porta, Beaufort, periodic ciphers, and more. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve - with solutions.
20) 75 Mind Bogglers
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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 75 verbal brainteasers each, this deck will 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.
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