Best of
Puzzles

2004

The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles Volume 30: 50 Sunday Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times


The New York Times - 2004
    And in addition to forty-four of the regular, high-quality Sunday puzzles the Times is renowned for, this volume contains the six famous "Millennium" crosswords: the biggest puzzles the Times has ever published! They're each over 40% bigger than a regular Sunday and twice as big as a Daily puzzle and contain two complete sets of clues, Hard and Easy. They're like no other crossword you've ever seen, and editor Will Shortz is still deluged with requests to publish more. So prepare to dig in to the biggest, most puzzling crosswords that have ever appeared in The New York Times.- 50 of the world-famous Sunday crosswords- Six Bonus Millennium puzzles with two sets of clues-the largest crosswords ever to appear in the paper

The Hinged Square Other Puzzles


Ivan Moscovich - 2004
    If you leave the blue piece fixed and swing the others around their hinges, a new shape will emerge. Can you guess just by looking what it will be? This is just one of the tricky geometrical gems that will make a puzzler’s mind work overtime. Try drawing a set of variously shaped polygons using only a compass and a ruler (no measuring allowed!), figuring out which of two sculptures is bigger (logic alone won’t give you the answer), and lots more.

Amazing AHA! Puzzles


Lloyd King - 2004
    It is packed with all kinds of fun and imaginative problems of varying degrees of difficulty that encourage you to break out of familiar thought patterns and to think creatively and 'outside the box'. In addition, the puzzles have extremely rewarding and addictive "Aha!" answers absolutely guaranteed to make you both groan and smile at the same time. Puzzle wizards, young and old, will absolutely love this book as well as be completely enchanted by it!