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122) Snow scene
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A playful guessing game set in a snowy landscape"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Bamboozling clues need a curious mind to piece together thirteen different animals. The animals in question are easily recognizable: ostrich, polar bear, snail, puffer fish, albatross, sloth, lobster, bullfrog, kangaroo and giraffe. But the clues are not what you'd expect (e.g. "3 billiard balls," "egg cozies," "an extra leg," "chainsaw," "dinosaur feet," "a speedometer," "poison to kill 30 humans"). The clues are wryly illustrated in scenarios unrelated...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries-for example, that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales-Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mind-effing factoids-from anatomy awareness to CIA cats-and quirky commentary that give the traditional trivia book a fun reboot.
Which came first, Brad Pitt or lasers? Who, what, or where is "shrapnel" named after? And can you really use cheese to tell the future? These questions and many more are answered in Good Job, Brain!, a collection of freaky facts, perplexing puzzles, and quirky quizzes based on the award-winning podcast of the same name.
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132) Tricky twisters
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A collection of puzzles, games, and riddles emphasizing logic and deductive reasoning, some of which involve numbers.
135) Super challenge
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A collection of puzzles emphasizing creative thinking and deduction, some of which involve numbers.
137) Anno's math games
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Picture puzzles, games, and simple activities introduce the mathematical concepts of multiplication, sequence and ordinal numbering, measurement, and direction.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins...
140) Puzzle
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father. That begins to change in a quietly dramatic fashion when Agnes receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift and experiences the heady thrill of not only doing something she enjoys, but being very, very good at it.
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