Toys, Puzzles & Games Books
Guardian Faber Publishing Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese
Book SynopsisFrom the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems?The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve.Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?
£8.99
Pitch Publishing Ltd Trivquiz Manchester United: 1001 Questions
Book SynopsisHow much do you really know about Manchester United? Put your knowledge to the test with this bumper book of brainteaser quizzes and fascinating facts, beautifully illustrated by one of the world's leading sports artists. It's packed with trivia on all the great Man United sides and players - from the 'Busby Babes' to 'Fergie's Fledglings', from Charlton, Law and Best to Rooney, Ronaldo and Rashford - providing hours of highly dippable fun and entertainment. Which player earned a taekwondo black belt and seriously considered abandoning his football career to work as a docker? Which Republic of Ireland international was raised in orphanages? Son of a Greco-Roman wrestling champion, which striker served in the Norwegian army? Which United striker made history when he played for Stockport County alongside his father? Which player appeared opposite Cate Blanchett in the 1998 movie Elizabeth? Trivquiz Manchester United holds the answers to all these questions and hundreds more.
£9.49
Quality Chess UK LLP Leningrad Dutch
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£20.25
Anness Publishing How to Play and Win at Chess
Book SynopsisUpdated new edition 2021/2: The history, greatest games, famous players, and how to play: terminology, rules of the game, skills, opening strategies and endgames, game plans and tips for success, with over 700 illustrations
£13.50
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd The Mindfulness Activity Book: Colouring and
Book SynopsisThis large-format activity book contains a wealth of creative, mindful pursuits and puzzles to soothe the mind and enable you to park any worries and stresses and focus on the moment.Mindfulness is the practice of bringing our attention to the present moment without judgement or evaluation – which sounds as if it might be easy but isn’t. Scientifically proven to reduce anxiety and depression, improve concentration, even improve the immune system, enabling us to fight off diseases, training our brain to live in the moment is crucially important to our mental and physical health and wellbeing. In The Mindfulness Activity Book Dr Gareth Moore presents creative challenges that will help you focus on yourself and live in the moment. Featuring over 120 fantastic puzzles, mazes, dot-to-dots, crosswords, spot the difference, hanjie, sudoku and more, as well as colouring pages, this book is perfect for any adult who loves a challenge but also craves a creative outlet that allows them to use their artistic and inventive side too. With the help of this book, you will find that taking time for yourself and concentrating on an activity has real therapeutic, mindful benefits, as it allows you to recharge your batteries and better cope with the stresses we all face every day.Take time for yourself, focus your thoughts and feel the proven benefits of being in the moment.
£11.69
Galison Mudpuppy Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel Multi Puzzle
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£22.79
Hodder & Stoughton The World Cup Of Everything
Book SynopsisRichard Osman has been trying to settle the most important issues society faces today. Who would win in a head-to-head between Quavers and Cheesy Wotsits? And What''s the ultimate Christmas film (Home Alone, obviously). The World Cup of Everything is an incredibly popular format that began life on twitter where his hilarious polls received 1.5 million votes a go becoming a national talking point, inciting debate amongst twitter users at odds over their favourites, celebrities and key figures join in, bookies offer odds on the outcome, papers report on it all as if it is a real sporting event with headlines about how Richard Osman has melted the internet. This autumn we''re bringing The World Cup of Everything to the page in a brilliant book perfect for Christmas. With new competitions such as The World Cup of British Sitcoms, Christmas Songs, Animals, British Bands and so on, as well as some of the favourites that have already had the country talkinTrade ReviewLast year saw Dairy Milk crowned the best chocolate bar in Richard Osman's World Cup of Chocolate Twitter poll - if you disagreed, now's your chance for a rematch. In The World Cup of Everything Osman offers this and many more tournaments for families to play amongst themselves. * Radio Times *
£10.44
Batsford Ltd 1000 Checkmate Combinations
Book SynopsisThis truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate. 1000 Checkmate Combinations contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction. Each chapter covers a different piece or combination of pieces that is able to deliver checkmate, and provides illustrative templates for just about every mating formation. By working through the book, readers will develop their ability to recognise the potential for checkmate, as well as the know-how to execute one.Clearly written and beautifully organised, it will appeal to all chess players but particularly club players.
£14.39
Galison Mudpuppy At the Table 500 Piece Puzzle
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£14.33
Quality Chess UK LLP Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4 Volume 2
Book SynopsisGM Gawain Jones and GM Jacob Aagaard on Thinking Aloud in Killer Chess Training Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player''s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness.In Volume 2, GM Gawain Jones shows how to fight for an advantage against 1e5, plus the French, Pirc, Modern, Philidor and other miscellaneous Defences, using lines which feature a potent combination of surprise value, objective soundness and practical effectiveness. Volume 1 completes the Coffeehouse 1.e4 Repertoire, and covered the Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Scandinavian and Alekhine''s Defences.
£22.49
Chronicle Books After Dinner Amusements Which Would You Choose
Book SynopsisWith 50 hilarious and thought-provoking questions asking players to choose between two equally good, unpleasant, or absurd scenarios, this revealing party game leads to interesting conversations and good fun for all ages!
£8.88
Quality Chess UK LLP e3 Poison: A 21st Century Opening Repertoire
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£17.99
Galison Cosmic Lights 500 Piece Puzzle
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£12.35
Quality Chess UK LLP Sharp Endgames
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£17.99
Jake Island Ltd The Yorkshire Quiz Book
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£9.50
Flame Tree Publishing Chess: Beginners & Intermediate; Openings,
Book SynopsisChess is a popular and fascinating game, it’s good for the mind, and satisfying to play with others, in clubs, or alone, in travel, against a computer, or an app. This new book will take you quickly through the movement of the pieces to good opening strategies, middle game techniques, and how to either finish off or defend against your opponent.
£9.49
ARTE Y DEPORTE
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£10.16
D&B Publishing Exploitative Play in Live Poker: How to
Book SynopsisMany poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won't often arise at the table by chance - you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do. ----- To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting hand charts, balance and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won't know how to adapt. ----- Learn how to: --- * Counter the auto-continuation-bettor --- *Develop a powerful donk-betting strategy --- * Use the overbet, the check-raise and the three-barrel effectively ----- As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.Trade ReviewI am pretty sure I have said before that a book I was reviewing at the time changed my life, but this time it didn't just change my life, it completely 100% altered my entire poker existence... I don't know about you, but I am never going to be satisfied with where my poker game is. I must admit I don't know what I don't know. I have to go out there and find the answers to the questions I don't even know that I have. I don't want to just grab any old book from any old shelf and learn any old information. I want to learn the best from the best. I am telling you: Alex Fitzgerald is the best of the best.--Shannon Mack "CardPlayerLifestyle.com, March, 2019 " ----- First of all, the book was fantastic: a read that I could not stop reading, gluing me to the pages. I’m not sure if it was the way the writer spoke or worded things or just perhaps the no-bullshit way to dominate a poker table that kept me wanting more and more. --- ProfessionalRakeBack.com
£17.99
Edition Olms Secrets of Creative Thinking: School of Future
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£17.99
Edition Olms Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen
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£17.99
New In Chess Chess for Educators: How to Organize and Promote
Book SynopsisChess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. In this guide, psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the best didactical methods. Van Delft has created a dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers. What can teachers do to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you support a special needs group? How do you deal with parents? What are the best selling points of a chess program? Boys and girls, does it make a difference? How do chess in schools programs fare in different countries? This is not a book on chess rules and moves, but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.Trade Review"More than 260 pages of pure motivation and inspiration. While other school chess books focus on concrete lessons, Karel van Delft provides insight into everything else that should be in the chess teacher's school bag (chess and autism, chess and girls, chess as social and therapeutic tool, the role of the parents...). The author strikes a wonderful balance between practical tips and scientific foundation. You can use some pages as a checklist, on the other hand the references to scientific works can make any school headmaster realise that chess really belongs in the classroom. And isn't that exactly what we need to spread chess in schools?" -- Philippe Vukojevic, First Rank Newsletter, ECU Education
£20.66
Laurence King Tetromino City
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£17.62
Tuttle Publishing A Guide to Japanese Sushi 1000 Piece Jigsaw
Book Synopsis1000 piecesFinished puzzle is 29 x 20 inches (74 x 51 cm)Quality design & easy to handle piecesFeatures full color photos of more than 60 types of sushi and the names of eachThis fun and challenging puzzle will be enjoyed by the whole family (and may lead to sushi cravings!). It features more than 60 types of sushifrom nigiri and gunkan to norimaki and temaki. The name is written in English, Japanese and a romanized form under each photo, making this a great way to learn proper sushi terminology and make takeout ordering easier.
£13.49
Tuttle Publishing Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game: A Collector's
Book Synopsis"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Whether used as a reference or a beautiful keepsake, it's a very worthy addition to the world of Mah Jongg." —Ruth Unger, President, National Mah Jongg LeagueThis is the first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mahjong or "Mah Jongg," offering an intimate look at the history of the game as well as the visual beauty of the tiles. When authors Ann Israel and Gregg Swain began playing Mahjong, they were unaware of the vintage collections that existed not only in the United States but also across the globe. Slowly, they started to collect their own sets of Mahjong and as their collections grew, so did their appreciation of the history of, and interest in, the game.Finding few references, Israel and Swain set out to create a book that chronicles the early beginnings of the game and documents Mahjong sets from the most basic, made of paper, to the most precious materials such as ivory and mother-of-pearl. Recognized and respected scholars and game experts have collaborated with Israel and Swain, contributing essential chapters on the game's history and its pieces as well as technical information on the tiles. Lastly, prominent collectors from around the globe have shared their incredible sets and memories for the first time in one book for everyone to enjoy.With hundreds of beautiful new images by renowned photographer Michel Arnaud, and including historical documentation and ephemera, Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game fills the void between the past's and today's game, providing vision, inspiration and resources. Anyone who has ever been intrigued by a Mahjong tile will find in these pages visually stunning photographs that will entice them into becoming an enthusiast of the timeless game of Mahjong.Trade Review"Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game … delves into … cast-stone tiles and ambitious manufacturers' experiments with plastics and composites like Pyralin and Ebonite." --New York Times"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Whether used as a reference or a beautiful keepsake, it's a very worthy addition to the world of Mah Jongg." --Ruth Unger, President, National Mah Jongg League"This handsome book is the first to give a history of the tiles used in the game of Mah Jongg. The concept of the game and the symbols on the tiles are explained, and then the wide variety of materials used in making the tiles is discussed and illustrated. Presented in brilliant color and beautifully designed, Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game would be a welcome addition to the bookshelf or coffee table of any art lover. For Mah Jongg players, it's a must!" --Elizabeth Stillinger, author of The Antiquers and A Kind of Archeology: Collecting American Folk Art 1876-1976
£16.99
Tuttle Publishing Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul Korea 1000 Piece
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£14.39
Parragon The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles
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£10.44
Batsford Ltd Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About
Book SynopsisOver the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous world champions. The series is called ''My Great Predecessors''. As a reaction to this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them. The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.
£13.49
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Visual Thinking: Optical Puzzles to Boost Your
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Brain Games for Clever Kids and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book._____________________Put your puzzling prowess to the test with the huge variety of tricky, visual puzzles featured in this book.Challenging your non-verbal reasoning and logical thinking, Dr Gareth Moore presents over 100 visual puzzles that will surprise and delight, boosting your ability to solve problems in different ways and testing your mental agility. Among the puzzles to be found here are:Spot the difference, pairs, matchingMental rotation and cube foldingHanjieSliding piecesShape countingOptical illusions3D ReasoningVisual sequencesCode breakerExtreme mazesJigsawIn short, this engrossing book offers dozens of different creative challenges that will boost your brain power and keep you engaged.
£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Rogue Art History
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£24.83
Cornerstone The World of Critical Role: The History Behind
Book SynopsisDive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos.From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. These pages chronicle how a circle of friends who all happen to be talented voice actors built the most-watched tabletop role-playing livestream of all time.Discover dazzling new illustrations and richly written insights into the locations, characters, and adventures featured in the hundreds of episodes across Critical Role's two campaigns, Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein. Go behind the scenes with archival photos and exclusive interviews with Dungeon Master Matt Mercer and the entire Critical Role cast as they explore their characters' most triumphant moments and darkest hours. And celebrate the massive community of Critters who support and expand the show's world through a highlighted tour of the crafts, cosplay, and art they create every day.Featuring a foreword from the cast, lush illustrations, and the inside story you won't find anywhere else, this book is your indispensable guide to Critical Role.The adventure begins!
£21.25
Transworld Publishers Ltd Rock & Roll A Level: The only quiz book you need
Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for any music lover . . . 'Hepworth has more insider knowledge and knows more rock anecdotes than any man alive' The Herald'Unmissable for music enthusiasts' Woman & HomeThe Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who know the chart position of everything and the value of nothing.It's for the people who like pop music because it tells them so much about real life, the people who learned about America from the songs of Chuck Berry, about Europe from the albums of David Bowie and about all manner of things from the songs of Steely Dan.It's the first quiz book where the answers are as interesting as the questions.It's the first quiz book where general knowledge matters as much as an adolescence spent reading the NME or Smash Hits.It's a proper education.
£9.49
Laurence King Publishing Inside the Chocolate Factory
Book SynopsisMovie Jigsaws are a fun way of celebrating a series of iconic films, in the same format as the bestselling World of Shakespeare literary jigsaw
£15.29
Everyman Chess First Steps: 1 e4 e5
Book SynopsisStarting a chess game with 1 e4 e5 is so common that the resulting complex of opening systems traditionally commands its own sobriquet, "The Open Games" (1 e4 met by other replies are "Semi-Open Games" and everything else comes under "Closed Games"). The central structure with pawns on e4 and e5 often leads to play based around highly classical themes which are the bedrock of successful chess understanding. ----- First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations. First Steps emphasizes: ----- * the basic principles --- * the basic strategies --- * the key tricks and traps ----- First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed. If you want to take up a new opening, First Steps is the ideal place to start.Trade Review"Throughout the coverage is extremely clear and should be especially of use to juniors and the weaker club player." --- Sean Marsh, CHESS Magazine ----- "This is a fun and informative book. While some of the material is basic ... much of it stresses the micro-principles that when adhered to lead to winning chess play. First Steps: 1 e4 e5 is more of an instructional manual about piece activity in the open games than an opening book, as such it is suitable for a broader range of players than its title suggests." --- Mark Donlan, ChessCafe.com
£16.19
Gambit Publications Ltd 600 Modern Chess Puzzles
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£16.62
Atlantic Books It's All a Game: A Short History of Board Games
Book Synopsis'Timely... wonderfully entertaining' - The Wall Street JournalIn It's All A Game renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.Trade Review[A] timely book... It's All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history. * The Wall Street Journal *A brisk and hugely readable account of some of the world's great board games and the amazing people who played them. Packed with fascinating tales from ancient Egyptian senet to Google's AlphaGo. Highly recommended. -- Ian Stewart, author of SIGNIFICANT FIGURESTable of Contents0: Introduction 1: TOMB RAIDERS AND THE LOST GAMES OF THE ANCIENTS 2: CHESS: THE 'MAD QUEEN'S GAME' 3: BACKGAMMON: THE FAVOURED GAME OF INTERNATIONAL PACESETTERS AND ANCIENT EMPERORS 4: THE GAME OF LIFE: A JOURNEY TO THE UNIQUELY AMERICAN DAY OF RECKONING 5: THE FORGOTTEN MESSAGE OF MONOPOLY 6: FROM KRIEGSSPIEL TO RISK: BLOOD-SOAKED AND WORLDSHAPING PLAY 7: I SPY 8: CLUEDO'S BILLION-DOLLAR CRIME SPREE 9: SCRABBLE: WORDS WITHOUT MEANING 10: PLASTIC FANTASTIC: MOUSE TRAP, OPERATION AND THE WILLY WONKA OF TOYS 13: RISE OF THE MACHINES: GAMES THAT TRAIN SYNTHETIC BRAINS 14: TRIVIAL PURSUIT: ADULTS AT PLAY 15: PANDEMICS AND TERROR: DISSECTING GEOPOLITICS ON CARDBOARD 16: MADE IN GERMANY: CATAN AND THE CREATION OF MODERN BOARD GAMES
£10.44
BIS Publishers B.V. Mezza Card Game: Dazzle your opponents with
Book SynopsisThis colourful card game is the perfect gift for lovers of card games with an eye for design. Chances are you have played 'shithead' sometimes. Mezza is a quirky and fun variation of this popular card game: a game that requires you to be fast, dynamic and strategic. Discard all the cards in your hand as fast as possible, start playing your face up cards and become the first to get rid of your cards! This variation has an exciting new element: the unique ½ card (‘mezza’ means ‘half’ in Italian) is key. It is the lowest card in the game, in a combination it can suddenly become the highest. Play Mezza in a group of 2 to 5 and dazzle your opponents with tactics and speed.
£14.78
Blume Marvel Spiderman: Unir Los 1000 Puntos
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£6.71
Everyman Chess Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part
Book SynopsisGrandmaster Damian Lemos presents a repertoire for White in the Queen?s Gambit, one of the most famous chess openings. The Queen?s Gambit enjoys a long and illustrious past. It has been played by virtually all the strongest grandmasters in the history of chess, and today it remains a popular choice for players of all levels. White?s opening moves in the Queen?s Gambit are built on sound strategic principles, and it can lead to positions rich in both tactical and positional play. It?s a perfect opening to use in order to develop your chess understanding.It?s a perfect opening to use in order to develop your chess understanding. There are many defences that Black can employ against the Queen?s Gambit and it?s easy to become confused by the countless options for both White and Black. Lemos tackles this problem by providing a concise, easy-to-learn and practical repertoire that is suitable for players of all levels. Using illustrative games, Lemos examines the typical tactics and strategies for both sides, and highlights the key move order issues. This book tells you everything you need to know about playing the Queen?s Gambit.? A complete repertoire with 1 d4 d5 2 c4? Over 50 games with grandmaster analysis? Written by a Queen?s Gambit expert
£21.24
British Library Publishing The British Library Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book
Book SynopsisThe Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, largescale surveys and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book.
£13.49
Gambit Publications Ltd Chess Tactics Workbook for Kids
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£13.29
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Opening Preparation
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£18.89
Quality Chess UK LLP The Science of Strategy
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£17.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Quick Cryptic Crossword Book 5
Book SynopsisChallenge yourself with word and number puzzles100 puzzles from The Times adapting the cryptic puzzle for those with a hectic lifestyle and schedule. Ideal for those starting out with cryptic crosswords, and those who'd like to tackle the main puzzle but feel daunted, or who can perhaps only solve a handful of clues.Appearing Monday to Friday in the puzzle pages of Times2, this crossword has a reduced 13x13 grid size and reduced difficulty too, the intention being to encourage people to take their first steps in tackling cryptic crosswords. And also to cater for those of us who have limited time to devote to our favourite pastime and need a ready-made set of puzzles that is solvable in a short space of time.
£7.59
Everyman Chess A Complete Guide to Flank Openings
Book SynopsisTwo great books by Neil McDonald from the Everyman Chess Library, Starting Out the Reti and Starting Out: The English, brought together in one volume. ----- The Réti is a popular opening at all levels of chess. The great advantage it possesses over other openings is that it's a thematic system which can be adopted against many different defences, and because of this it's a firm favourite amongst those who prefer the understanding of ideas over dry memorization of moves. ----- In this book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald examines the Réti by going back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them - something that has often been neglected or taken for granted in other works. ----- The English is a sophisticated and popular opening system that is suitable for all types of players and can lead to both positional and tactical middlegames. Many of the world's top players, including Kasparov and Kramnik, include the English in their openings weaponry. ----- In this groundbreaking book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald revisits the basic principles behind the English and its many variations. Throughout this easy-to-read guide the reader is aided by a wealth of notes, tips and warnings from the author, while key strategies, ideas and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated. This book is ideal for the improving player.
£17.99
£13.29
Little, Brown Book Group Emergency Questions
Book Synopsis If you had to wear somebody''s guts for garters - if you had to - who would you disembowel in order to facilitate your socks staying up?What do you consider your median achievement?Would you rather have pubic hair made of unremovable barbed wire or to be attacked by a rabid badger in your sleep once a week?We''ve all been there. Stuck at a boring family party, on an awkward date, in a below-par job interview, or any number of other situations in which conversation has become more of a trickle than a flow. Well, fear the excruciation no more, as Richard Herring''s EMERGENCY QUESTIONS is about to change your life. Containing 1,001 conversation starters from one of our most cherished comedians, along with plenty of answers from the many household names who''ve appeared on his podcast, this book is virtually guaranteed to remove any social anxiety from your life, and will raise your repartee-game to new heights.Trade ReviewThis book is very funny. And a social lifesaver. I'm definitely going to use it for my next awkward conversation with Richard Herring -- Sarah MillicanWould you rather read this book cover to cover every day for the rest of your life, or never read again? We would take the former, because it's the stupidest funniest book of the stupidest funniest questions we've ever read -- Elis James and John RobinsGuaranteed to get a conversation started . . . even if it ends up being a conversation about your weird taste in books -- Dave GormanThank god and all her sisters for Richard Herring, leaving no turnable stone unimagined with these iceberg breakers -- Al MurrayI am involved in emergency situations on a daily basis, with Richard's book I can avoid the majority turning into crisis -- Bob MortimerRichard Herring bullied me into claiming this book, which I haven't yet read, is brilliant -- Charlie BrookerPerhaps if Michael Parkinson had asked Mohammad Ali if he'd ever seen a Bigfoot he might be remembered as a great interviewer. Instead it is Richard Herring who has perfected the art of creating funny, interesting and offensive questions that will supercharge even the dullest encounter -- Adam BuxtonRidiculously funny and (unexpectedly) genuinely useful -- Adam Kay author of This is Going to HurtA perfect way to pretend you're interested in people you're not that interested in -- Kathy BurkeMost of this book is pointless filth, all of it is hilarious, and my answer to question 715(a) is "Yes thank you and it was very tasty" -- Dawn FrenchWith this hysterical book, you will once again become the heart and soul of any gathering without having to take your trousers off or write self-loathing apology texts the next day -- Rufus HoundOf all the clever people I know, Richard is the stupidest. And of all the stupid people I know, Richard is the cleverest. That's why this is such a brilliant book for everyone -- Richard Osman
£11.07
Archaia Studios Press Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game Box Set, 2nd Ed.
Book SynopsisFinally back in print, this second edition of the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game Box Set contains everything players need to know about the world of the Guard, including rules for forming patrols and leading missions into the beleaguered territories. This second edition of the Origins Award-winning game contains new art, additional Action, Weapon, and Condition cards, and a revised and updated rule book.
£42.52
Headline Publishing Group The Pot Luck Pub Quiz Book: More than 10,000 quiz
Book Synopsis10,000 questions in over 300 individual quizzes make up this superb book, containing a wealth of fascinating information on a huge variety of subjects perfect for quiz aficionados, divided by difficulty level and subject matter. Many of the quizzes are themed, along the classic lines of music, sport, geography, politics, entertainment etc. but there are also more specialist subjects such as DIY, Law and Order, Country & Western, and JK Rowling. Pot-luck quizzes with a mix of all subjects are also included to keep you on your toes. A section at the rear of the book also gives tips and advice on how to host your own quiz at home, at the pub, or any place keen quizzers congregate.
£9.99
