Books by Dr Gareth Moore

Book SynopsisA book of puzzles for everyone, with rules as easy as sudoku - or simpler!Trade ReviewOne of Britain's most trusted brain trainers - Sunday TelegraphThe puzzles are fresh and livelyBritain's king of puzzles - Sun

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Book SynopsisTune into a moment of mindfulness with over 300 pencil-ready puzzles. Paper, Pencil and You: Mindfulness presents over 300 puzzles designed to encourage mindfulness in a busy, stressed-out world. From simple word searches and labyrinths to challenging logic problems and visual conundrums, each puzzle helps to keep the brain sharp, while providing a mindful moment free from distractions and worries. The puzzles in this book encourage you to develop mindfulness skills to help relieve the stresses of modern-day living. Each one is designed to channel your mind away from distractions and to focus on the here and now. Work your way through puzzles that include drawing fences, finding hidden words, matching shadows and linking shapes to improve your awareness, instinct and creativity. So, sharpen that pencil, turn over the page and tap into mindfulness.

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Book SynopsisPacked with science, puzzles, and tons of fun, this activity book based on the hit National Geographic television show will fire up your neural network!Calling all fans of the Brain Games TV show! Excercise your mental muscle with awesome challenges, wacky logic puzzles, optical illusions, and brain-busting riddles. Write-in pages include both games and short explanations of the neuroscience at work. Have fun and challenge yourself as you unleash your inner creativity and become the genius we all know you are.The activity book is a companion to the popular television show, book series, board game, and other Brain Games products.

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the bestselling The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book. ARE YOU AS BRIGHT AS THE BEST?Try puzzles from the world puzzle championships, where teams of solvers from all around the world compete to find that year''s fastest and best puzzle solver.The book contains around 200 puzzles of over 90 different types arranged over 20 themed chapters, including a wide range of unique puzzle variations created especially for the world puzzle championship. Puzzle types include battleships, cave, dominoes, fillomino, heyawake, kakuro, LITS, masyu, number link, nurikabe, slitherlink, yajilin and many, many more.Compare your own puzzle-solving times against past world championship winners, and find out where you stand on a world scale.Try some of the world''s toughest puzzles, designed to challenge the very best solvers.No language skills or general knowledge required - all the puzzles are designed to work for any solver from

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Book SynopsisCrack codes, decipher ciphers and unravel mysteries with this brain-boosting collection of cryptic puzzles, inspired by the brilliant mind of famous World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing. Alan Turing was a genius codebreaker who played a pivotal role in cracking coded messages from Nazi forces. This puzzle book will put your own codebreaking skills to the test, featuring a breathing array of challenges, including substitution ciphers, transposition ciphers, and more complex cryptographic techniques. The puzzles become progressively harder, so you can start with the (relatively) easy ones and build up to the truly expert level tests. With clues and hints to help you on your way, you''ll need to use your logical thinking, pattern recognition, and deduction skills to break the codes and reveal the hidden messages.Foreworded by Dermot Turing, the nephew of Alan Turing, this puzzle book is a great way to flex your mental muscles and see if you have what it

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Book Synopsis*The brains behind The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Tour of Britain, bring you the ultimate guide to adventure.*Perfect for ages seven and up, and the best introduction to map-reading, navigation and the great outdoors.Want to become an expert map-reader?Want to explore the great outdoors armed with hints and tips from the map creators themselves?Want to test your new-found skills with a host of challenging map puzzles?Then this is the book for you. Created by Ordnance Survey, who make all the iconic maps for the whole of Great Britain, this book will teach you how to read a map like an expert, and confidently and safely explore the incredible outdoors.You''ll also have the chance to test your skills with map-reading puzzles that''ll keep you entertained for hours.So strap on your boots, pack up your walking essentials, and start your map-reading adv

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Book SynopsisDr Gareth Moore is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, The Whodunnit Puzzle Book, Anti-stress Puzzles, The RHS Gardeners Quiz and Puzzle Book, Brain Games for Clever Kids, Lateral Logic and Extreme Mazes. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone and have sold in 35 different languages. He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.Laura Jayne Ayres is a puzzle writer and researcher. After studying Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, she worked as a playwright before joining Dr Gareth Moore's puzzle team. Books that she has worked on include Hacked!: The Cyber Crime Puzzle Book, The Great British Puzzle Book, The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book, The Nautical Puzzle Book and The Ordnance Survey Kids' Adventure Book.

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Book SynopsisBy using math and logic to solve and navigate the codes, kids will build great skills to have in their locker and train their brains in problem solving. Developed by Dr Gareth Moore an expert in the field, this book will have your kids seriously cracking codes in no time! Crack codes with ciphers used by real-life spies Use math to reveal secret coded messages Race against the clock to solve fiendish puzzles that will save the day! Kids will have a blast solving the awesome alphabet and number codes, grids and picture puzzles. Don?t worry, if kids get stuck, there are tips and subtle clues to help improve code breaking skills. The more kids do the better they will get. Full answers are tucked away, just to check the code has been cracked! With full-color graphics and illustrations throughout, this book is as eye-catching as it is entertaining.

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Book SynopsisGet up to speed with the rules of the road. A fun collection of puzzles of various kinds, in colour, making use of content, including signs, from The Official Highway Code. An easy and entertaining way to revise for a driver’s licence test or improve your knowledge of The Highway Code. Many of us are hazy about the meanings of less common road signs, or are not up to date on changes to The Highway Code since we passed our test. On the other hand, there are those who are very proud of their encyclopaedic knowledge of UK road signs. These are puzzles for everyone to enjoy. If learning for a driver’s test, this book is the perfect solution for anyone looking for an easier and more enjoyable way to learn and test their Highway Code knowledge. A variety of word- and knowledge-based puzzle types based on the signs and markings of The Highway Code; they range from straightforward through to more challenging, but all are designed to be solvable by the average reader. Can you solve them all?

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Book SynopsisImprove your mind's power and unlock your full potential with the first in Mensa's new brain-training series.This full-colour book guides you through eight chapters, each focussed on a different aspect of your brain's ability to concentrate, from creativity and problem-solving to lateral and logical thinking.Every chapter takes you through the science behind how your brain works, gives instruction on how to improve your concentration skills, and provides you with a series of puzzles and exercises to get you started on your brain-training journey!Table of ContentsIntroduction • Meet your brain • Keep it busy • Multi-tasking • Setting goals • Challenge yourself • Mindfulness • Smart reasoning • Life-long learnings • Solutions.

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Book SynopsisFrom Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock to Werner Herzog test your knowledge of the movies with The Movie Puzzle Book.Table of Contents1 The Pitch 2 Playing the Part 3 Setting the Scene 4 The Director’s Chair 5 It's a Wrap 6 Selling the Movie The Answers Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisSee how much you and your family know about the Beeb with this lively and fun official puzzle book on the BBC.Trade ReviewA great gift for BBC listeners and viewers - an information packed book... Thoroughly enjoyable. * Woman And Home *Table of ContentsIntroduction Timeline BBC Radio BBC Television Entertainment Drama Comedy Soap Opera Sport Music Factual Children’s Television LifestyleNews, Weather and Current Affairs Technology Answers

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Book SynopsisMy mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere -Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four. Solve incredible conundrums with greatest detective of them all with this handsome collection of over 130 fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles. Inside you will find a series of narrative puzzles involving riddles, plays on words, mathematical principles and logical reasoning. These are each presented as exchanges between Holmes and Watson as they endeavor to crack the case. Use your powers of deduction and see if you can match the towering intellect of Sherlock Holmes. Featuring the original pen and ink illustrations by Sidney Paget and George Hutchinson, this gorgeously designed puzzle book with gold foil accents will immerse you in the cosy Victorian charm of Holmes''s mysteries and keep you entert

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Book SynopsisEnter Cthulhu''s twisted realm with this incredible puzzle book, including over 180 puzzles inspired by the ingenious cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft. Using logic and lateral thinking, you may (or may not) manage to overcome the eldritch evils that lurk within. Escape the intricate, circular maze created by the Faceless God Nyarlathotep, decode the riddle within your cryptic nightmare, find the numbers that have been lost in a multidimensional abyss, and solve more cosmic conundrums. Illustrated throughout with all manner of Lovecraftian imaginings, this entertaining puzzle book is perfect for horror-fans and puzzle-lovers alike.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Classic Puzzles bring together mind-bending puzzles inspired by classic themes and figures from history and literature, from ancient antiquity to modern greats. These are presented in handsome decorative formats that make the perfect gift.

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Book SynopsisWordle, the simple but addictive word puzzle, has inspired Dr Gareth Moore, bestselling author of puzzle, brain-training and activity books, to ingeniously create a paper game with 350 all-new Word Fall puzzles. This word game gives players six attempts to correctly find a word.Word Fall 1 features:- 350 all-new puzzles- No repeating letters- No UK-only or US-only spellings- Trickier 6-letter word section so you can challenge yourself!Grab a pencil and get to grips with Word Fall. This is the perfect gift for commuters, avid Wordle fans who hunger for more than one puzzle a day, and anyone who wants to practice brain training!

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Book SynopsisCan''t get enough of Wordle and Word Fall 1? Do you hunger for even more puzzles?Dr Gareth Moore, bestselling author of puzzle, brain-training and activity books, has ingeniously created a paper game with 350 all-new Word Fall puzzles. This word game gives players six attempts to correctly find a word.If you''ve completed Word Fall 1, have a go at this!Word Fall 2 features:- 350 all-new puzzles- No repeating letters- No UK-only or US-only spellings- Trickier 6-letter word section so you can challenge yourself!Grab a pencil and get to grips with Word Fall.This is the perfect gift for commuters, avid Wordle fans who long for more than one puzzle a day, and anyone who wants to practice brain training!

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Book SynopsisAn addictive and exciting puzzle book based on 500 years of British espionage history, drawn direct from the catalogues of The National Archives----The fates of nations, outcomes of wars and general sweep of history have often hinged upon the deciphering of devilishly difficult codes and devious deceptions by spymasters.In Spydle, The National Archives and Britain's leading puzzle masterminds, Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, have drawn on five centuries of British spycraft and cryptography to compile an unputdownable history of real-life codebreaking and espionage through a series of addictive puzzles.Using original documents, maps, ciphers, plans, letters and telegrams from plots and espionage relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, the Gunpowder Plot, Mata Hari, Agent Zigzag and dozens more, Spydle's puzzles are based on real codes and conundrums.Packed with fiendish puzzles covering over 500 years of espionage, could you be a code-cracking spymaster and untangle history's most cryptic mysteries?Play Spydle to find out . . .

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Book SynopsisGive the joy of a challenge this Christmas with wickedly difficult puzzle‘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 THESE TWO TEASERS A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century)There is a house. The blind enter it and then come out seeing. What is that house?-A CharadeI have wings, yet never fly -I have sails, yet never go -I can''t keep still, if I try,Yet forever stand just so.----''Fiendish, frustrating, annoying, fulfilling’ Guardian

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Book Synopsis Are YOU the ultimate map-reader? Do you know your trig points from your National Trails? Can you calculate using contours? And can you fathom exactly how far the footpath is from the free house? Track down hidden treasures, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you work through this unique puzzle book based on 40 of the Ordnance Survey''s best British maps. Explore the first ever OS map made in 1801, unearth the history of curious place names, encounter abandoned Medieval villages and search the site of the first tarmac road in the world. With hundreds of puzzles ranging from easy to mind-boggling, this mix of navigational tests, word games, code-crackers, anagrams and mathematical conundrums will put your friends and family through their paces on the path to becoming the ultimate map-master!

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Book SynopsisThe Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book was the biggest-selling puzzle book of 2018. And now it is back, and bigger and better than before!

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Book SynopsisA bumper collection of 150 different kinds of Sudoku in 495 puzzles.

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Book SynopsisOne year to a better brain! A 52-week programme to make you sharper, day by day

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Book Synopsis''Britain''s King of Puzzles''SunA second collection of restful puzzles and brain-training activities, designed to relieve stress andinspire creativity.This book features a wide range of specially selected games to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain. Feel the tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the endorphin-reward buzz as you successfully complete each puzzle.Stimulating your mind with each puzzle also helps unlock your brain''s innate creativity, just assleep and rest can help you reach a breakthrough on pending tasks. This book will help you feelrefreshed and renewed, and ready to carry on with your daily life.This is the second in a series of four books by the same bestselling author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book, The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2 and The Mindfulness PuzTrade ReviewThe puzzles are fresh and lively

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Book SynopsisThe great tea-break escape! A bumper book of fun puzzles celebrating every aspect of Britishness from Britain''s King of Puzzles -- perfect to relax, de-stress and unwind, perhaps with a cup of tea!Whether focused on queuing, the weather or the overwhelming desire to apologise entirely unnecessarily, these are puzzles with a sense of humour and a love of all things British.The puzzles cover every aspect of modern Britain, from food and drink through to language and literature, and from places and people through to sports and entertainment.There is an extraordinary variety of content, from word and logic puzzles of all kinds through to relaxing dot-to-dots and spot the differences, all designed to take us on a unique and intriguing tour of our fascinating island.Trade ReviewOne of Britain's most trusted brain trainers. * Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for astrology loversThis beautiful book contains almost 150 challenging, fun puzzles inspired by the ancient wisdom of the stars.Puzzles include familiar, relaxing types such as word searches, mazes and dot-to-dots, as well as a variety of other types that include code-breaking puzzles, word squares and even astrological story-based puzzles.They are designed to challenge, delight and relax you as you interpret the cosmos and reveal a deeper understanding of yourself and others. The Astrology Puzzle Book is the perfect gift for the astrologer in your life.

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Book SynopsisRelax. Let your shoulders drop, turn your phone to silent and take one (freshly sharpened) pencil. Paper, Pencil and You: Calm contains over 300 puzzles designed to foster calm in a stressed-out, busy world. The puzzles in this book will take you on a journey through a wonderland of calming activities. You'll divide shapes, draw loops, fill grids and much, much more. Each one has been designed to give you a moment of peace; a break from the hectic pace of life and a chance to quieten the mental noise. With sections for practice runs and workings out, each puzzle is designed to be completed on the page itself. As you complete the book you'll be unconsciously developing your memory and visual processing skills, thinking laterally and logically to find solutions, but will emerge from each exercise feeling relaxed and refreshed. So, sharpen that pencil, turn over the page and feel calm.

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Book SynopsisUse the puzzles in this book to sharpen your mind and improve your ability to focus. The perfect antidote to staring at a screen for hours on end, Paper, Pencil and You: Focus presents over 300 puzzles designed to improve focus in a distracted world. With each one you will learn to eliminate mental distractions, improve concentration and develop your powers of deduction. Test your skills with a range of visual conundrums and lateral-thinking problems that include matching pairs, odd one out and pathfinding.Keen puzzlers will find themselves absorbed in developing their memory and visual processing skills, called on to think laterally and logically to find solutions, and will emerge from each exercise feeling relaxed and refreshed. Switch off from screens, pick up a pencil and focus.

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Book SynopsisBanish boredom with this bumper book of perfectly pitched puzzles for the whole family to enjoy. Fear not, The Great Big Indoor Family Puzzle Book has self-isolation, rainy days and long school holidays covered with over 200 puzzles suitable for 12 to 120-year-olds. Jam-packed with mazes, dot-to-dot, picture puzzles, sudoku, word games and much, much more, discover hours of entertainment between these pages. The puzzles will give little and large brains a workout (and provide precious moments of household calm).Pencils at the ready, as you work your way together towards the solution.

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Book SynopsisSeventy-five feline crime purr-zzles to solve using logic, skill and the power of catnip.

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Book SynopsisMensa's Most Difficult Maths Tests provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers. This full-colour book features a huge variety of numerical brainteasers that will test even the most mathematical of minds. With puzzles ranging from the familiar – such as kakuro and killer sudoku - to the exotic – such as sum skyscraper and calcudoku – this fiendish puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours. Are you up to the challenge?Table of ContentsThis book consists of 200 difficult puzzles of a variety of different types, all focussing on maths and numerical reasoning. Questions include both classic and bespoke mathematical logic and pattern puzzles. Puzzle artworks and full-colour illustrations are included throughout.

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Book SynopsisIFLScience and puzzles unite in the IFLScience! The Official Science Puzzle Book – a perfect combination for anyone who wants to be amazed by the furthest reaches of scientific exploration while solving an enjoyable conundrum.Can you successfully crack the code hidden in the synthetic DNA? Can you bridge neurons in a brain correctly and create consciousness? Are you able to split the atoms without setting off a dangerous chain reaction?These puzzles – alongside more than 100 other enigmas and questions – are combined with colourful introductions to dozens of scientific concepts and discoveries, providing an opportunity for every aspiring scientist to learn and explore while they solve.Table of ContentsThe book is split into eight separate sections – The Environment, Technology, Space, Health, The Brain, Plants and Animals, Physics, and Chemistry – with puzzles and a quiz in each. These questions are all embedded in and inspired by the most important scientific theories and discoveries of all time, from the invention of gunpowder and the discovery of the structure of an atom, to synthetic DNA and self-driving cars. Puzzle illustrations and scientific images are included throughout.

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Book SynopsisThe Natural History Puzzle Book guides you through the history of our incredible world with hundreds of questions certain to confound and amuse children and parents alike.The themed quizzes speed through time and space, testing your knowledge on everything from ancient fossils and dinosaurs to human evolution and the natural world around us.The puzzles come in three levels of difficulty, from easy to difficult. Easy puzzles, like mazes and spot-the-differences, are solvable by all members of the family, from young to old. Others, such as nonograms and bridge puzzles, might need a more experienced puzzle-solver to complete them. However, with fun facts appearing throughout, The Natural History Puzzle Book is an informative and fun read for any budding scientist!Table of ContentsMore than 100 quizzes and puzzles.

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Book SynopsisA longevity brain training programme for anyone who wants to live better. Optimize your brain health in four weeks.

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Book SynopsisTake some time for yourself and enjoy the brain workout of these crosswords!Enjoy some ‘me’ time with the fun - and at times infuriating! - crosswords in this bumper book. There are over 300 wonderful crossword puzzles to complete, perfect for both five minute breaks and whole evenings of puzzling. Whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about, pick up a pen and focus on these puzzles for a gentle brain workout. And if you get stuck, the answers are all at the back!Apart from enhancing the brain, you will find that taking time for yourself and concentrating on these word puzzles has real therapeutic benefits too, as it allows you to recharge your batteries and better cope with the stresses we all face every day.Written by internationally renowned puzzle expert Dr Gareth Moore, The Mammoth Book of Crosswords is the perfect way to relax and boost your IQ.

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Book SynopsisTake some time for yourself and enjoy the brain workout of these sudokus!Enjoy some ‘me’ time with the fun - and at times infuriating! - sudokus in this bumper book. There are over 300 wonderful sudoku puzzles to complete, perfect for both five minute breaks and whole evenings of puzzling. Whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about, pick up a pen and focus on these puzzles for a gentle brain workout. And if you get stuck, the answers are all at the back!Apart from enhancing the brain, you will find that taking time for yourself and concentrating on these sudoku puzzles has real therapeutic benefits too, as it allows you to recharge your batteries and better cope with the stresses we all face every day.Written by internationally renowned puzzle expert Dr Gareth Moore, The Mammoth Book of Sudoku is the perfect way to relax and boost your IQ.

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Book SynopsisTake some time for yourself and enjoy the brain workout of these word searches!Enjoy some ‘me’ time with the fun - and at times infuriating! - word searches in this bumper book. There are over 300 wonderful word searches to complete, perfect for both five minute breaks and whole evenings of puzzling. Whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about, pick up a pen and focus on these puzzles for a gentle brain workout. And if you get stuck, the answers are all at the back!Apart from enhancing the brain, you will find that taking time for yourself and concentrating on these puzzles has real therapeutic benefits too, as it allows you to recharge your batteries and better cope with the stresses we all face every day.Written by internationally renowned puzzle expert Dr Gareth Moore, The Mammoth Book of Word Searches is the perfect way to relax and boost your IQ.

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