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  • Around the world in 80 games

    £10.99

    Around the world in 80 games

    ‘BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE’ STEPHEN FRY

    A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023

    An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.

    SKU: 9780008525958 Category: Tags: , , ,
    £10.99

  • Headscratchers

    £14.99

    Headscratchers

    This highly engaging collection of 70 puzzles comes from the popular weekly column in New Scientist magazine. You’ll find puzzles that are great for sharing with friends at a pub, problems drawn from real-life situations, games with intriguing strategies, and puzzles with such creative and whimsical storylines that they need to be explained to be believed. With the solutions you’ll read the untold back stories behind the puzzles, and a fascinating exploration of related puzzles and mathematical ideas. You’ll learn why a particular puzzle adaptation involved talking to an expert in sheep genetics, which solution was thought up by the BBC Radio 5 Drive team, and outside-the-box solutions to apparently straightforward challenges.

    SKU: 9781838958770 Category: Tags: , , ,
    £14.99

  • Murdle: Even More Killer Puzzles

    £14.99

    Murdle: Even More Killer Puzzles

    The third volume in the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING Murdle puzzle series

    SKU: 9781800818064 Category: Tags: , ,
    £14.99

  • Murdle: More Killer Puzzles

    £14.99

    Murdle: More Killer Puzzles

    The second volume in the Murdle murder mystery logic puzzle series

    SKU: 9781800818057 Category: Tags: , , ,
    £14.99

  • The GCHQ Puzzle Book

    £16.99

    The GCHQ Puzzle Book

    MURDLE FANS LOOK NO FURTHER . . .HIGH STAKES HEADSCRATCHERS THAT PROMISE TO DELIGHT, THE GCHQ PUZZLE BOOK NOW IN PAPERBACK’Fiendish . . . as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling’ Guardian —-The secrets of the country depend on you.Find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a code breaker?GCHQ’s top-secret codebreakers have always protected the country – from Bletchley Park’s war-ending WWII breakthroughs to saving us all from life-destroying foreign cyberattacks.But what kind of mind does it take to work there? And do you have the brain power, cunning and resourcefulness to pit your wits against them and win? Here, taken from their archives, are decades of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try.You’ll discover:- Tips on how to get into the mind-set of a codebreaker- Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending- Challenges that have never been solved – Insight into the organisation’s top

    SKU: 9781405970518 Category: Tags: , , , ,
    £16.99

  • The GCHQ Puzzle Book II

    £16.99

    The GCHQ Puzzle Book II

    STEP ASIDE MURDLE BECAUSE GCHQ ARE BACK WITH EVEN MORE BRAIN-BENDING PUZZLES TO PUT YOUR WITS TO THE TESTNow a pocket-sized paperback, The GCHQ Puzzle Book II is the ideal present for armchair code-breakers and amateur cryptographers alikeFiendish, frustrating, annoying, fulfilling’ Guardian—-The spooks at GCHQ need your help again.Can you break these fiendish codes and prove you’re a master puzzler?The defence of the realm depends on GCHQ. And these fiendish puzzles and tests are how they test the best. Have you got what it takes in this second round of brain-bogglers?Inside you’ll find puzzles to develop:- Lateral thinking and ingenuity- Skills to spot patterns- Your ability to break ciphers- A mindset to tackle authentic entrance testsKeeping the country safe in secret since 1919, GCHQ is always on the look out for new recruits. Discover if you’ve got the kind of incredible, puzzle-solving mind to work there . . .ENJOY THESE TWO TE

    SKU: 9781405970501 Category: Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
    £16.99

  • The Penguin Book of Puzzles

    £12.99

    The Penguin Book of Puzzles

    MURDLE FANS LOOK NO FURTHER . . . Want to keep your brain active and your wits trim? Challenge your mind with The Penguin Book of Puzzles and find out if you’ve got what it takes to beat the Penguin.’An explosion of a puzzle collection’ The Times Literary Supplement —- From the riddles of the ancients to puzzles that perplex the greatest minds of today. Now a pocket-sized paperback, The Penguin Book of Puzzles is a glorious compendium of conundrums from throughout history. These challenges will require all the reader’s wits to solve, but range from the easy to the brain-bending and are suitable for novice and veteran puzzlers alike. There is something here to suit every taste, including crosswords, mathematical challenges, word games and logic conundrums, but also some intriguing types of puzzles that have been unearthed from centuries gone by. Hours of fun await you in this timeless and entertaining miscellany of puzzlement.ENJOY T

    SKU: 9781405970495 Category: Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    £12.99