METRIC PUZZLESWritten and Illustrated by Peggy Adler"Fifty-two carefully developed games including mathematical computations, anagrams, and word puzzles teach the metric units for determining area, volume, and temperature. Readers must determine measurements for several children and three hedgehogs who take vitamin C, pick mushrooms, and travel. Peggy Adler's black-and-white pen drawings add to the fun of these well-conceived exercises which help...

Having fun and learning while you do it is the basis of this book. A variety of games are provided - over 50 including variations. Each game is designed to work with the minimum of equipment - sometimes just paper and pencil, sometimes coins or counters. Simple to understand instructions about how to play, and a simple gameboard, and complemented by an easy to understand game goal. But - and here's the clever part - the games have math embedded in...

From French spies to Flemish painters, Lincoln's beard to beer can patents, child labour laws to the Great Depression – Puzzled is not your typical history book. This is a captivating and colourful journey through the history of jigsaw puzzles, over time and around the world.Puzzled tracks the evolution of the jigsaw puzzle from expensive collectibles available only to society's elite, to a mass-produced commodity enjoyed by millions the world over....

Une énigme est un type particulier de test mental, de jeu ou d'intérêt, dans lequel quelqu'un se voit proposer une énigme/un puzzle, planifié rapidement et explicitement dans le but qu'il puisse tenter de découvrir sa réponse. Cela nécessite régulièrement de la réflexion, de l'instinct et un esprit créatif, souvent excentrique. Un type de détournement ne repose pas sur des informations antérieures, mais sur un exercice psychologique...

Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.

The "Danish coziness" philosophy is fast becoming the new "French living" in terms of aspirational lifestyle books and blogs. There are countless viral articles comparing the happiness levels of Americans versus Danes. Their homes are more homey; their people are more cheerful. It's an attitude that defies definition, but there is a name for this slow-moving, stress-free mindset: hygge (pronounced "hoo-ga"). Hygge values the idea of cherishing yourself:...

"Come play the newest game in the Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza universe: 800 pound gorilla! Spin the spinner, find the right-size gorilla, and race to take the coconut and bananas. Your family will love how easy it is to learn and how quick the laughs start--but your eyes may deceive you in finding the 800 pound gorilla! The spinner decides what everyone has to do! Complete an action, yell a phrase, or find the right size gorilla! But you must be quick:...