Toys, Puzzles & Games Books
Octopus Publishing Group Crap Snap: A Card Game for Poop Lovers
Book SynopsisGet ready to be gleefully grossed out with this fabulous version of the classic game of Snap Match the number twos for fun and giggles with your pals Time: Depends how regular you are Number of players: 2+ Includes: 52 playing cards, plus an instruction card Age: 16+ (but a maturity age of 4+) Assembly required? As if! Batteries required? I'd be worried if it did! Poop is hilarious and Snap is excellent fun, so what happens when you combine the two and take the trouble to make it rhyme? You get Crap Snap, that's what! Crap Snap is all about speed, spontaneity and paying close attention to the crap-themed words on the cards and being the first to shout "crap snap"! What's that number two saying to you? Well, it's saying that crap is where it's at and this pan-jamming party game is the most fun you can have off the toilet. Who knew that poop could be so much fun? It'll leave you and your opponents laughing and gagging in equal measure.
£7.97
Octopus Publishing Group Cock-a-Doodle: A Rude Activity Book for Adults
Book SynopsisDiscover cock-the-differences, cock-tastic colouring and all kinds of phallic fun with this ever-so-slightly naughty activity bookPut down your phone, tablet or newspaper and pick up Cock-a-Doodle, an activity book with a devilish difference. Within these colourful pages you will find word searches, spot-the-differences and much more puzzling pleasure, all centred around one thing: the cock! Written and illustrated by Jason Murphy, author of Spot the Cock, this book includes a raft of intricately detailed full-colour activities, including cock-based colouring, creative cut-outs and dick-themed doodle pages. And what's more, there's a hidden cock to be found nestled within each spread. Hone your sleuthing skills as you search for the one-eyed trouser snake across a range of hilarious scenarios, including:- Tucked within the sock drawer spot-the-difference game - Hidden among the sprinkles of the delicious donut search-and-find puzzle - Carefully concealed in the mushroom patch colouring activity
£8.54
Arcturus Publishing Ltd Spot the Difference
Book SynopsisTake a quantum leap into the bizarre and extraordinary parallel worlds presented to you in this Spot the Difference puzzle book, showcasing the surreal collage art style of Louis Catlett. This intensely visual puzzle book is filled with over 40 mind-boggling, full-colour picture puzzles, where nothing is quite as it seems... Focus on the absurd, trippy and psychedelic situations presented in the pairs of images and see if you can spot all the differences between the two.Was that rubber duck always pink? Did that chimp always have a jetpack? Where did that sinister floating hand disappear to? Take a closer look and the intriguing inconsistencies will reveal themselves...This hilarious puzzle collection makes a unique gift for any puzzle fan!
£999.99
Idea & Design Works The Best of The Beauty of Horror: Another
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£18.24
Arcturus Publishing Ltd Alan Turings Cryptic Codebreakers Puzzle Book
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
£9.49
Batsford Ltd The Caro-Kann the Easy Way
Book SynopsisAn informative guide to understanding and implementing the fundamentals of the Caro-Kann, the easy way. The Caro-Kann defence, named after the German chess players Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann, is notorious for its simple solidity and is a popular chess opening that players of all levels benefit from having in their arsenal. It is a firm favourite of grand masters past and present, including Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Anand.This is the fifth book from International Master Thomas Engqvist, and it avoids overcomplicated details and endless computer variations, focusing instead on key variations of the Caro-Kann that can be committed to memory. Examining classic games to demonstrate key moves in action, Engqvist brings the defence to life and provides you with the knowledge you need to put strategy into practice.Trade Review‘A Relaxed and friendly read.’ British Chess Magazine James Pratt
£16.19
St Martin's Press Above the Rim
Book SynopsisElevate your basketball trivia game with fresh facts and superfan challenges! Test your sports savvy and emerge a champion with this interactive, brain-busting trivia book written by fans for fans. Above the Rim delivers all the stats, figures, funny stories, and highlights your inner sports nerd craves. Take a shot at Who Said It?, Guess the Player, and True or False quiz questions. Discover little-known facts about the most iconic players of all time, from Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Boost your basketball wisdom and discover:- Who got thrown out of more games than any other player? - What''s the punishment for dunking so hard you shatter the backboard (besides needing to pick the glass form your hair)?- Which team has the worst road record in NBA history? Hint: They went 1-40!Get ready to score fascinating new insights and push your existing knowledge
£14.24
Chronicle Books Sheepology 1000 Piece Puzzle
Book SynopsisThis charming and delightful 1000-piece illustrated puzzle features nine colorful sheep breeds from around the world, in a lively pasture farm scene. From the Bluefaced Leicester to the California Red to the Racka and the Ouessant, Sheepology 1000-Piece Puzzle showcases nine distinct and delightful sheep breeds from around the world in a fun pasture scene. Each of the sprightly sheep featured in this charmingly illustrated jigsaw puzzle have a unique design and big personality, making them a joy to assemble. Examine each sheep and identify its species to bring an educational touch to your puzzling. Ideal for game night or a cozy weekend activity, you will love assembling these high-quality pieces and getting lost in the vibrant images of illustrator Camilla Pintonato, the talented artist also behind the 1,000-piece farm scene puzzles Chickenology and Pigology. This puzzle assemble
£15.36
The School of Life Press Games for Grown-ups: 40 activities to deepen and
Book SynopsisWe are used to thinking of good conversation as the glue that holds friendships together, but we shouldn’t forget the immense value of playing games, with some of the same spirit of fun and adventure that we once deployed when we were children. Here is a pack of forty activities to draw us away from static conversation. Among other things, we will build a fort together, dance in surprising ways, deliver funeral orations, practise our acting skills, and play some entertaining (but kindly) pranks. The games are an invitation to cast aside reserve and get in touch with neglected imaginative aspects of ourselves. They are a reminder that friendship doesn’t only require talking; it thrives just as much on the lighthearted but significant business of playing together. Examples Inanimate Impressions Imitation, as Aristotle knew, is an activity humans find pleasurable and meaningful. This perhaps explains our delight in impressions. Ordinarily, we impersonate living creatures – friends, celebrities or animals. But this game takes a slightly different approach. Each guest should attempt to impersonate an inanimate object – a grandfather clock, or a dot-matrix printer, or a blender – using sounds and gestures. At the end, the group as a whole should elect a winner who has most uncannily captured the likeness of the object.
£19.20
The School of Life Press Untranslatable Words
Book SynopsisWe’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - helps us explain ourselves to other people, and its existence quietly reassures us (and everyone else) that a state of mind is not really rare, just rarely spoken of. This set of cards define some of our favourite words from the world’s languages and married them up with complementary images to create cards that bring some of our most important feelings into focus. We’ve created them to prompt greater reflection about the nature of language and the emotions. Example Cards: DUENDE (Spanish): A heightened sense of emotion created by a moving piece of art. FORELSKET (Norwegian): The euphoric feeling at the beginning of love. We can’t believe someone so perfect has wandered into our lives. They enhance and complete us. We might report: ‘I was overpowered by forelsket as our fingers interlaced…’
£19.20
Faber & Faber Everything to Play For
Book Synopsis''Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.'' ALAN DAVIES''The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.'' SPECTATORDid you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls?Everything to Play For is the curious story of us and sport. It''s about our mind-blowingly determined attempts to be the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful. In this endlessly entertaining tale of play and belonging, astonishing violence and jaw-dropping cheating, we learn what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed and discover why Michael Palin was disqualified from a conker tournament. Crossing millennia, continents and cultures, Harkin and Ptaszynski the brainy researchers for BBC''s QI and co-hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish show us sport as we've never seen it before.**<
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers True or False
Book SynopsisThe fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy!Sort the fact from the fiction with this interactive game book, bursting with 300 true or false statements. Quiz family and friends, bust common myths and clear up misunderstandings on everything from animals to science, space, food, music, sports and more!Are bats really blind?Will an apple a day actually keep the doctor away?Is Mount Everest in fact the world's tallest mountain?Jam-packed with brain-busting facts and tons of colourful photos it is sure to get you questioning what you thought you knew!
£6.99
Quality Chess Key Elements of Chess Tactics
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£21.24
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Sustainable Jigsaw Puzzle Angela Harding
Book SynopsisNew title in exciting series of ethical, sustainable and earth-friendly jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree Studio, featuring powerful and popular works of art, using ethically sourced materials, sturdy pieces and a recyclable paper bag.Part of a new, exciting series of ethical, sustainable and earth-friendly jigsaw puzzles. These high-quality, 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree are made with FSC®-certified and recycled materials, have sturdy pieces and a recyclable bag, and feature powerful and popular works of art. The 1000 pieces will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the wonderful Southwold Swan by Angela Harding. Intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins.Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in Rutland, UK. She specialises in lino prints and her work is inspired by British birds and countryside.
£999.99
Usborne Publishing Ltd Usborne Chess Book
Book SynopsisA fun, write-in book packed with brain-teasing puzzles, useful facts and clever tips that show how to play chess and improve your game. Some of the puzzles are answered using chess-piece stickers and all the answers are at the back of the book. Simple puzzles show how to use the pieces, with more tricky puzzles on tactics and checkmates.
£12.34
THAMES & KOSMOS Red Cathedral Contractors
Book SynopsisIn 2020, The Red Cathedral stormed onto the board game scene and quickly became very popular amongst Euro gamers. Red Cathedral Contractors is another fabulous offering from Sheila Santos and Israel Cedrero, with stunning artwork again by Pedro Soto and Chema Roman.
£32.40
The School of Life Press The Therapy Game: share and listen to each
Book SynopsisWhen we end up in a really good conversation with a friend, we sometimes pay them a slightly unusual but sincere compliment: we say that chatting to them feels like talking to a good therapist. What we tend to mean is that they’re giving us space to talk, they’re not interrupting us or pushing their own advice aggressively forward: they’re properly listening. This game cannot turn us into real therapists (that would take years of training). But like many good games (ones about flying or being a detective for example), it gives us a chance to try out, entertainingly but safely, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth.
£23.40
The School of Life Press Travel Therapy: deepen and transform the
Book SynopsisGoing travelling can be one of life’s greatest activities – but often, we fail to deepen the experience as much as we should and return home with some of the promise of our trip unrealised. Here is a pack of cards designed to help us get the very best out of travel – and to embed its greatest lessons in our minds. The cards contain questions that we can reflect on ourselves (in a journal or on a train ride) or ask others in a group – and that lead us to think deeply about how we might derive maximal satisfaction from a trip. This is an ingenious, low-tech, high-impact solution to one of the great conundrums of travel: how to ensure that the reality of going away will match our hopes.
£15.30
Chessable The Checkmate Patterns Manual: The Killer Moves
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£29.71
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Glasgow Museums Edgar Degas
Book SynopsisNew title in the exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art and providing a challenge for adult puzzlers of all levels!Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Red Ballet Skirts by Edgar Degas, in partnership with Glasgow Museums. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference.Edgar Degas, born in 1834, was regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Renowned for his paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings, it is his artworks of dancers that he is most famous for.
£12.95
Everyman Chess Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1 E4: Dealing
Book SynopsisAnyone who plays 1 e4 as White must be prepared not only for Black's main defences but also an assortment of less popular lines. These, when taken together, represent a significant percentage of the replies you can expect to meet when opening 1 e4. Dealing with these slightly offbeat variations is often a daunting task, especially since your opponents are likely to be specialists in these lines and therefore know them inside out. This book provides the perfect solution. International Master Andrew Greet gets to grips with each of these tricky openings. He identifies how to exploit their weaknesses whilst avoiding their strengths, thus constructing a practical and dependable repertoire for White. This book covers everything a 1 e4 player needs to know about facing these defences. Written by a renowned opening expert, this book features full of original ideas and analysis. It is ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players.
£16.14
Everyman Chess The Scotch Game
Book SynopsisYelena Dembo takes a modern-day look at the Scotch Game, providing thorough coverage of the critical main lines and studying the key tactical and positional ideas for White and Black.Trade Review"Dembo and Palliser each enjoy a reputation for being particularly conscientious authors. This latest tandem effort will only enhance this. Everything Scotch players from club level to Grandmaster need is accurately presented up to the end of 2010. Highly recommended" John Donaldson jeremysilman.com "I recommend it wholeheartedly for serious players who get the Scotch in their games." Glenn Flear New in Chess Yearbook
£17.09
Galison Gray Malin The Beachside 3In1 Puzzle Set
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£17.27
Galison Jonathan Adler Bargello 1000 Piece Panoramic
Book Synopsis Jonathan Adler is a design company that creates luxe and livable interiors and chic products that are synonymous with modern American glamour. The Jonathan Adler Bargello 1000 Piece Panoramic Puzzle includes the wonderfully bright Bargello theme from Adler’s successful Now House Infinity line. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. • 1000 Pieces, Ribbon Cut • Box: 14 x 5 x 2.75', 355 x 127 x 70mm, Puzzle: 39 x 14', 990 x 356mm • Includes Puzzle Insert with Puzzle Image • Minimal Puzzle Dust • Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper. Packaging contains 70% recycled paper and is made responsibly from FSC-certified material. Printed with nontoxic inks.
£19.55
Galison Mudpuppy Andrea Pippins Flowers In Your Hair ColorIn 1000
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£17.99
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Go Fish: A Card Game
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£13.57
Gambit Publications Ltd A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire
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£12.34
Gambit Publications Ltd Mastering the Chess Openings: v. 2
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Mayhem in the Morra
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£999.99
Orion Publishing Co Question Time
Book SynopsisWhich major UK retailer has the same name as Odysseus''s dog in Greek mythology?In the original version of the Band Aid hit ''Do They Know It''s Christmas?'', who sang the opening line?Which is the only US state whose name can be typed on a single row of a QWERTY keyboard?Travel writer and quiz fan Mark Mason decided to combine two of his greatest loves by setting off on a tour of Britain''s quizzes. From a pub quiz in Edinburgh to a charity quiz in Hampshire, from a corporate quiz in Birmingham to a journalists'' quiz in Parliament, he finds answers aplenty while asking some questions of his own. Just what is it that attracts us to these tests of our knowledge? What are the ingredients of the perfect quiz question? And which is the only English city whose official name begins with H?The only travel book ever to discuss Winston Churchill''s use of language and reveal Donald Duck''s middle name, QUESTION TIME is an affTrade ReviewA must-have book for any quiz lover, Mark Mason, a travel writer, weaves funny anecdotes with local trivia in a witty account of his trips round these isles in search of quizzes from pub quizzes in Edinburgh to a jouranlists' quiz in parliament. The silly answers to local radio and TV phone-ins are a particular joy. In one instance a woman was asked to name Britain's biggest carnivore. "I know this," she said. 'It's Notting Hill." -- GRANT TUCKER * THE TIMES STOCKING FILLERS BOOKS OF THE YEAR *Mason gives us a whistle-stop tour of Britain's best quizzes while packing in as much trivia as possible. This is the one I will be giving to everyone for Christmas. -- Katya Edwards * DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS *
£9.49
Galison Eyes In The Garden 500 Piece Puzzle
Book SynopsisEyes In The Garden 500 Piece Puzzle from Galison features the colorful artwork of Lisa Congdron who is best known for her colorful drawings and hand lettering. The author of 8 books, she has worked with many brands and companies, such as Commes des Garçons, MoMA, Harvard University, Crate and Barrel, and more. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. An insert of the full puzzle image is also included.- 500 pieces- Box Size: 8 x 8 x 2, 203 x 203 x 51 mm- Puzzle Size: 20 x 20, 508 x508 mm- Includes Insert
£12.35
The History Press Ltd The Little Book of the Tudors
Book SynopsisThis 'Little Book' gives you all the low-down on the daily life of the ordinary people as well as vivid descriptions of the luxury in royal palaces
£12.34
Orion Publishing Co The Abbot The Parrot and the Bermuda Bowl
Book SynopsisIn this book, the pompous and self-important Abbot spots a chance to take part in that Holy Grail of Bridge - the Bermuda Bowl world championships. Casting all ethics aside, he pursues this dream. Partnered by the Parrot, with the Witchdoctor, Mbozi, Mrs Okoku and Miss Nabooba as team-mates, he travels to India''s Chennai and faces many of the world''s real-life players.Regular followers of David Bird''s work will know what to expect - a first-rate mixture of amazing bridge, entertaining characters and sparkling dialogue.
£12.34
Hearst Cosmo's Truth or Dare: Our Naughtiest Sex Game
Book SynopsisThis naughty spin on the classic Truth or Dare game features 120 enticing cards in a box. You and your sweetie simply take turns picking from the deck and choosing a spicy "Truth" or an edgy "Dare". Whichever one you choose...the results will be sizzling HOT! More sexy fun from Cosmo! This naughty spin on the classic Truth or Dare game features 120 enticing cards in a box; you and your sweetie simply take turns picking from the deck and choosing a spicy "Truth" or an edgy "Dare." Truth: What is the strangest thing that has ever turned you on? Dare: Lick your lips in the steamiest way possible. Whichever one you choose...the results will be sizzling HOT! Do you dare to play?
£9.94
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Gustav Klimt Poppy Field
Book Synopsis1000-pieces. Shrink-wrapped, sturdy box (size 10 x 10 x 2 ins). High quality jigsaw puzzle. Finished Jigsaw size 29 x 20 ins.Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Gustav Klimt: Poppy Field. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference.With a high horizon, the foreground dominates this oil painting, creating a sense of a vast expanse of poppies. Although this subject was explored by Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), stylistically it is extremely different from Impressionism. The tightly packed poppies provide detail, while the elevated view displays the whole landscape.
£14.39
U.S. Games Systems Wizard Card Game Large Index
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£7.60
Rowman & Littlefield Knack Bridge for Everyone: A Step-By-Step Guide
Book SynopsisBridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. But books on the subject all too often seem to ignore this. Enter Knack Bridge for Everyone, which takes a step-by-step, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, as well as numerous charts and diagrams, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. It then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more bidding techniques and strategies for winning.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1 Rules of BridgeChapter 2 Introductory BiddingChapter 3 Playing a HandChapter 4 ScoringChapter 5 No Trump Openers and ResponsesChapter 6 Playing a NT handChapter 7 Convenient MinorChapter 8 RespondingChapter 9 Next Step BiddingChapter 10 LeadsChapter 11 OvercallsChapter 12 DoublesChapter 13 Other Defense StrategiesChapter 14 When to Pull TrumpChapter 15 Preemptive Bids and ResponsesChapter 16 Stealing the bidChapter 17 2C and responsesChapter 18 Looking for SlamChapter 19 Other Ways to Show a Big HandChapter 20 Resource Directory
£17.09
Dorling Kindersley Ltd WOW
Book SynopsisNo two pages look alike in this eye-popping children''s encyclopedia. Exploring everything from amazing animals to art, this book is packed with fun facts for kids. With its unique visual approach, WOW! shows you a range of topics but presents them with a twist. Mingle with a bunch of snakes... on a ladder! Meet your mammal relatives in a photo album, or peek into a drawer full of prosthetic eyes to discover the science of genetics. An ice sculpture reveals the science behind states of matter, architectural marvels are displayed on a house of cards, and the story of space exploration is told through an astronaut''s stamp collection. This comprehensive children''s book covers technology, Earth, people, nature, history, science, the human body, and much more. With something new to discover on every page, WOW! will consistently entertain and inform. It''s the ultimate children''s reference book.
£16.99
Headline Publishing Group Petrifying Zombie Puzzle Book: Infectious puzzles
Book SynopsisIn the Petrifying Zombie Puzzle Book you'll help Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Maggie avoid herds of walkers, escape the clutches of the villains you love to hate like the Governor and Negan, and discover the evil that lies at the heart of Terminus with a series of in-character puzzles, riddles and brainteasers. So get your crossbows ready and remember: 'Fight the dead. Fear the living.' More than 100 puzzles and riddles based on the world of The Walking Dead. Each puzzle has either a zombie/walker theme or uses the beloved (and hated) characters from the TV show and graphic novels. With fantastically dark and gruesome artworks throughout the book to illustrate every brainteaser, the Petrifying Zombie Puzzle Book will frighten even the most-hardened zombie fan. Table of ContentsMore than 100 puzzles and riddles based on the world of The Walking Dead.
£9.99
Headline Publishing Group The Sherlock Holmes Complete Puzzle Collection:
Book SynopsisDr John Watson has compiled an outstanding selection of his esteemed colleague's cases. A daring, difficult and downright perplexing bunch of conundrums, puzzles, and riddles, all written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great stories. This book deeply involves the reader in the solving of puzzles - and crimes! More than 200 puzzles are included, from seemingly simple riddles to more complicated brain-busting logic puzzles. Tips and tricks for solving "the Sherlock way" are included, as well as all answers and explanations.Table of ContentsMore than 200 puzzles are included, from seemingly simple riddles to more complicated brain-busting logic puzzles.
£18.00
Russell Enterprises Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 5: Finding
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£16.96
HarperCollins Publishers The Times 2 Jumbo Crossword Book 13
Book SynopsisQuiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.A super-sized challenge for crossword lovers, selected by the Times2 Crossword Editor John Grimshaw.This Crossword appears weekly in the Saturday edition of The Times. The puzzles offer the same challenge as The Times2 daily crossword but the larger grid packs an extra punch!The clues are also a little more testing than the daily times2 crossword, to stretch the crossword enthusiast just a bit further, and provide hours of entertainment.
£10.44
New In Chess Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition: Key Moves
Book SynopsisPattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. Realizing that the position on the board has similarities with something you have seen before helps you to quickly grasp the essence of that position and find the most promising continuation. Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition supplies a wealth of essential, yet easy-to-remember building blocks for your chess knowledge. In 40 short, well-defined and practical chapters, experienced chess trainer Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents hundreds of examples of surprising middlegame themes. To test your understanding he provides exercises for every chapter. After working with this book, an increasing number of positions, pawn structures and piece placements will automatically activate your chess knowledge. As a result, you will find the right move more often and more quickly!Trade Review"Many of the chapter titles are very helpful for remembering the theme (..) IM van de Oudeweetering has done a good job identifying and classifying instructive middlegame positions by theme. Club players rated between 1600-2200 will benefit from this book and master level players (2200 and up) are also likely to pick up some new ideas by carefully reviewing the material." -- James Rizzitano, ChessCafe"Very practical and perfect for self-study. The book is written in an entertaining way, working with it is a joy (..) Suitable for beginners as well." -- Uwe Bekemann, German Correspondence Chess Federation"I think it's an excellent book, and while it's not systematic in a way that would turn it into a primer on positional play, there is no question but that this will improve the positional understanding of many club players. I'd highly recommend this to players rated around 1400 to 2100, and I think even masters can (and will) learn something from this book as well." -- Dennis Monokroussos, The Chess Mind"Once the reader has started applying these patterns in their own games, they will find that the post-opening phase of the game becomes easier and they will more often build up a strong position." -- Grandmaster Ian Rogers, Four-time Champion of Australia"Every improving player will learn a lot from this book." -- M Gary Lane, Chess Moves Magazine"Perfect for chess trainers who wish to teach their pupils themes in a way that is easy to remember." -- Max Euwe Centre, AmsterdamIt is an excellent book when it comes to freshen up the arsenal of typical but also unusual positional themes. This book calls for collecting positional ideas just as you collect typical combinations. Normally in a game the positional ideas precede the combinations and that's why this middlegame book is so important. -- IM Thomas Engqvist, SchackSnack
£18.89
New in Chess The Power of Pawns: Chess Structure Fundamentals
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£999.99
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Lesley Anne Ivory Phuan on a
Book SynopsisPart of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the charming Phuan on a Chinese Carpet by Lesley Anne Ivory. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference.Lesley Anne Ivory is one of the most prolific and prestigious painters of cats in the world today. Her meticulous attention to detail is legendary; she spends many hours researching for her pictures, including countless hours in the British Museum or the Victoria and Albert Museum, researching patterns and fabrics.
£15.94
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle L.S. Lowry Yachts 500 pieces
Book SynopsisPart of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Yachts by L.S. Lowry. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference.Lowry said of this painting, ‘To say the truth, I was not thinking very much about the people... They were part of a private beauty that haunted me!’ His works were created in his own unique style, poetic yet not sentimental, compelling, even at times disturbing, but never judgemental.
£11.87
Unicorn Books Pvt Ltd Brain Gym
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£999.99
Skyhorse Publishing Card Tricks: The Royal Road to Card Magic
Book SynopsisWith more than 120 illustrations to accompany instructions to more than 100 tricks, and a new foreword by Steven Cohen, a master of sleight of hand, this edition of Jean Hugard’s classic is an essential edition to any illustionist’s library.If you practice any sort of magic—or plan on giving it a try—you probably know that for most people, card tricks are often the starting point. If you have a deck of cards readily available, as many common households do, the only things required to wow an audience are a little sleight of hand and a magician’s secrets.In spite of the timeless credo “good magicians never reveal their secrets,” renowned magicians Jean Hugard and Frederick Braué generously divulged theirs in Card Tricks: The Royal Road to Card Magic.Published originally in the 1940s, this classic guide contains more than one hundred spectacular tricks allowing anyone to pick up a deck and dazzle an audience—whether their performance is in a theatre, at a party, or even on the street!
£999.99
