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Will Shortz's Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles
100 Alphabet Riddles
Will Shortz's Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles
$10.99
About This Book
Book Details
Will Shortz, NPR's Puzzlemaster, has been challenging and entertaining puzzle fans for years. Now he starts a new series of word games and brainteaser books: Mind Games! The first volume, Alphabet Riddles, contains 100 of his popular initial puzzles where every answer is a familiar two-word phrase having the same pair of initials. For example, using the initials S & B:
*What's kicked at the World Cup [SOCCER BALL]
*Portable advertising sign [SANDWICH BOARD]
*Shade of hair that's reddish yellow [STRAWBERRY BLOND]
*God [SUPREME BEING]
Features:
· 100 all-new Alphabet Riddles
· Created by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz
· Convenient portable format
Imprint Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN
9780312382735
In The News
“A puzzling global phenomenon” —The Economist
“The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935.” —The Times of London
“England's most addictive newspaper puzzle.” —New York magazine
“The latest craze in games” —BBC News
“Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family—think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!” —The Times of London
“Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s.” —The Daily Telegraph
“Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids.” —Associated Press
“Forget crosswords.” —The Christian Science Monitor
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Will Shortz's Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles