Benedict himself, with the help of Reynie, Kate, Sticky, Constance, and other Society associates. Think you have what it takes to join the Mysterious Benedict Society? Open this book and find out!

    Crafted by the best constructors in the business and edited by puzzle maven Leslie Billig, each one features a fabulous theme, and every clue has been vetted for accuracy. A fun-facts section sheds additional light on select answers. You dont need to wait for Sunday to enjoy Walk in the Park Sunday Crosswords!

    Put aside some spare time and enjoy solving some Sunday/weekend-sized puzzles!If youve got a sharp pencil, a sharp mind, and quality time, you will love delving into these super-sized weekend crosswords, adapted from The Uptown Puzzle Club.

    This vibrant and appealing collection serves up a wide range of visual and verbal conundrums, from grids and pixel fun to concentration exercises and continuous line challenges. Feeling lucky? Then try your hand at the Lucky Puzzle Slot Coin game. Want to test out your logic skills? Then find the "slices" that will complete the colorful pie chart. (It’s trickier than it first appears!) Search for elements that stand out from the rest, focus your attention on three-dimensional images and meaningful colors, look for repetitive series, and decipher the correct order of patterns. The result is a total mental workout that enables you to develop your gray matter at all levels—no matter what your age.

    Mind-stretching puzzles inside this collection include Battleships, Totalized, Code Cracker, Wordwheel, and Cell Block, as well as longer story puzzles that are certain to exercise the mind. Boost your IQ and strengthen your puzzle-solving skills with USA TODAY Logic 2.

    Indeed, they show that Sudoku puzzles and their variants are a gateway into mathematical thinking generally. Among many topics, the authors look at the notion of a Latin square--an object of long-standing interest to mathematicians--of which Sudoku squares are a special case; discuss how one finds interesting Sudoku puzzles; explore the connections between Sudoku, graph theory, and polynomials; and consider Sudoku extremes, including puzzles with the maximal number of vacant regions, with the minimal number of starting clues, and numerous others. The book concludes with a gallery of novel Sudoku variations--just pure solving fun! Most of the puzzles are original to this volume, and all solutions to the puzzles appear in the back of the book or in the text itself.A math book and a puzzle book, Taking Sudoku Seriously will change the way readers look at Sudoku and mathematics, serving both as an introduction to mathematics for puzzle fans and as an exploration of the intricacies of Sudoku for mathematics buffs.