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A simple idea starts a look back.
This puzzle and its many clues have been collected over the years from first admiring '60s vehicles as a kid to assembling many model cars into my teens, and working around cars all my life with family and friends. It started back at a local hobby shop, to a body shop, to automobile dealers, to GM corporate, and back to many dealers over the years. I have always been involved with cars and being a part of car shows....
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So, you're "crossword curious." You've wanted to know more about crossword puzzles but were afraid to ask. Maybe you've tried one or two, then threw them across the room in disgust when you were stumped. Or maybe you've come close but never actually finished one. Well, fear no more. This little booklet is just for you. With this guide, you will learn the basics of crossword puzzling. The first part of the booklet is a collection of tips on how to...
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The power of Sudoku to improve brain power and keep Alzheimer's and dementia at bay has recently been discredited by science. Sudoku is effective while you are learning it, but its efficacy dilutes once a player knows what they are doing.
Why? The answer lies in the art of seeking the semantic, a discipline calling for logic, interpretation, intuition, deduction as well as the ability to filter nuance and connotation. All these and more are bundled...
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The solving of crossword puzzles is a kind of aerobics for the little grey cells. It puts one's mental suppleness to the test, it taxes the staying power of one's vocabulary, it usually produces no immediate reward, but completing the exercise gives a satisfying feeling of achievement. A fascination with words – their multiplicity, variety, oddity, their slippery ambiguity and their often chameleon-like ability to change – lurks within many people...
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This is more than just a crossword dictionary: it helps beginners learn the most often-used words in crosswords (and their clues) and shows them how to avoid common tricks and traps.
With this book, beginner crossword solvers can learn the ropes and quickly improve their puzzle skills. In addition to an alphabetical list of the most common crossword entries, based on an exhaustive analysis of published puzzle grids, it includes explanations of each...
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An updated edition from expert crossword setter and experienced tutor, Tim Moorey, including 24 brand-new annotated practice crosswords. Cryptic crosswords are no longer the preserve of the elite: in this easy-to-use guide, Tim demonstrates that anyone who enjoys words and word play can learn to solve a cryptic crossword clue. With clear pictorially presented explanations for many clues, you can revel in the deep satisfaction that comes from finishing...
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The Million Word Crossword Dictionary was praised by crossword editors from all over the country. Now, noted crossword experts Stan Newman and Dan Stark provide the next "million word" tool to send your solving skills soaring. This radically comprehensive word finder can be used when two or more letters are known in crossword answers of 3 to 7 letters. Slang terms and celebrity names are included, providing the topicality and comprehensiveness you've...
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Ce Dictionnaire de citations pas comme les autres est le fruit du travail de deux enseignants, tous deux passionnés de littérature... et souvent en quête de sujets de réflexion à proposer à leurs élèves. Un peu collectionneurs et grands dévoreurs de chose écrite par ailleurs, ils ont pris l'habitude de noter petites phrases ou grandes pensées au hasard de leurs lectures. Ce livre est le résultat de ce travail qui s'est étendu sur plus...
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With more than 1,300,000 answers, this volume contains 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...
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Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book!
Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you'd like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment's distraction filling in a Harry Potter- or Lord of the Rings-themed crossword puzzle, looking up the names of Charles Dickens's characters in a word search, or completing a Jane Austen sudoku puzzle?
The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book offers puzzles of varying difficulty levels and literary...
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PopCo tells the story of Alice Butler-a subversively smart girl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from recluse orphan to burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by mystery, codes, math, and the sense her grandparents gave her that she could change the world. Alice-slight introvert, crossword compositor- works at PopCo, a globally successful and slightly sinister toy company. Lured by their CEO to a Thought Camp out on the moors, PopCo's creatives...
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• Do you want to boost your vocabulary knowledge, read and comprehend new texts, and be a good conversationalist?
• Do you feel that your writing style stays the same every time you put your pen to paper?
• Do you like to improve your learning habits and enhance your memory and attention?
• Do you struggle understanding course content in college, or are you a teacher who wants to help your students build their academic vocabulary?
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Give boredom the middle finger with this fun, hilarious and slightly profane activity book.
Who gives a sh!t about solving puzzles anymore? Say "eff you" to boring activity books with this irreverently vulgar upgrade. Including everything from crude crosswords and off-color coloring pages to wickedly funny word searches and salacious scrambles, this book is full of over 100 impolite activities guaranteed to make you giggle as you kill time and enjoy...
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Sangaku returns with more addictive number puzzles. Similar to the wildly popular Sudoku, the all-new Sangaku requires players to fill out a pattern, shape, or grid using mathematical rules. These rules change according to the shape of the board, however, and the numbers presented in sets are also different for every puzzle. If that wasn't enough, almost every puzzle has more than one solution, meaning that players get twice the puzzles for the price...
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Worried your brain is slowing down a bit? Starting to forget names and numbers? Having trouble with basic math problems? With Brain Games: Brain Teasers, Logic Tests, and Puzzles to Exercise Your Mind, those worries will become a thing of the past. From your short- and long-term memory to your planning skills and ability to learn faster, Brain Games contains everything you need to get your brain back in shape in no time.
Packed with three month's...
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How big is one billion? If you had a billion dollars and invested it in a business that lost a thousand dollars a day, do you know how long it would take you to go broke? Answer: Two thousand years! If the pen on your desk were enlarged a billion times, the point would be longer than the Mississippi River and the cap would be big enough to enclose the Earth. These are the types of cool facts that you can learn from this intriguing book. Although few...
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Do you easily forget phone numbers or birthdays? Do you often lose your car keys? Are there times when you just can't remember your bank card PIN? Do you lose focus at work by mid-afternoon?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you need to sharpen your mental reflexes, fire those synapses, and give your brain a good, hard, and fun workout! 10-Minute Brain Teasers provides practical and necessary advice on how to keep your brain in...
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Just as diet and exercise can help you maintain your physical strength, daily stimulation of your brain can help save your brain from deterioration. The puzzles here are varied and include memory and logic tests; anagrams, word games, and word searches; arithmetic problems and crossword puzzles of all sorts; Futoshiki, Kakuro, and Sudoku tests; and so many more. The key to stimulating your mind is variety, not difficulty, so the puzzles have been...
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This "fresh, amusing, 21st-century guide to everything Scrabble" is chock full of game history, trivia, and peculiar, game-winning words.
Scrabble® aficionados may know that both "Brr" and "Brrr" are legitimate plays, but what about everyday names like Peter, Carl, and Marge? They're not listed as proper nouns, but they are certainly playable. For lovers of Scrabble®, Bananagrams®, and Words with Friends®, this lively guide helps readers get...
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