Toys, Puzzles & Games Books
TAOC The Art of Conversation All Ages TAOC 1
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£9.65
Octopus Publishing Group Games on Thrones
Book SynopsisThe Porcelain Throne, set at the heart of the smallest room and witness to our dark business, can also be the seat of reflection and self-improvement. With that aim, this book contains more than one hundred dilatory games, tricks, puzzles, projects and pranks.Learn to make toilet roll tube gargoyles and an origami dragon, gain deep knowledge of toilet roll telekinesis, and discover the secret of the vanishing toothbrush trick. Many more amusing diversions and exciting challenges jostle for your attention to see you through those long bathroom visits.Table of Contents 1: Origami dragon 2: Prince of princess? 3: Poisoned pies 4: Coat of arms 5: Bathroom tiles 6: Matchsticks & toilet roll 7: Three privies 8: Make a musket from a balloon & a toilet roll tube 9: Three moral conundrums 10: Desert island 11: Toilet haiku 12: Loyalty quiz 13: Three slaves bet 14: Burning island 15: Guinevere's grandmother 16: Doodle your own cistern sigil 17: Seven arrows 18: How long is this jousting tilt? 19: How many drops of wine? 20: Make your own bathroom skittles 21: Pimp my throne 22: Make a badass crown from toilet paper rolls 23: Tyrant quiz 24: Three moral conundrums 25: Toilet roll tube statement jewellery 26: Make a house banner 27: Bathroom tiles II 28: Walking on water 29: Weighing bears 30: Circle of skulls 31: Unbreakable toilet paper trick 32: Soap sculpture 33: Toilet roll telekinesis trick 34: Exercises for effective eliminations 35: Winter-summer quiz 36: Toilet roll tube snowflakes 37: Poo-jitsu - how to fend off attack while on the throne 38: Bowl reading 39: Boat ladder 40: Bullion heist 41: King or queen? 42: Climb through a toilet roll tube 43: Impossible toilet roll tube trick 44: Make toilet paper dreadlocks 45: Three toilet roll pranks 46: Toilet paper doodling 47: Raven dividers 48: Axe men duo 49: Doublet puzzles 50: Custard cream & toothpaste prank 51: Baby oil toilet seat 52: Seven paradoxes 53: Conquering the world 54: Border crossing smuggler 55: Make an owl caller from a toilet roll tube 56: Improvement noun grid 57: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? 58: Make a wedding rice shooter from a toilet roll tube 59: Ten cool uses for a bar of soap 60: Boolean logic puzzles 61: Winter is coming 62: Murder in the desert 63: The inheritance race 64: Make a toilet roll tube crossbow 65: Tie a rope around the world 66: Throne wars 67: Drop a toilet roll, amaze your friends, confound your enemies 68: Leave a toilet roll bow 69: Bath sponge balls trick 70: Make toilet roll tube gargoyles 71: Royal box 72: Seven warriors 73: Ravine teaser 74: The missing sword 75: Toilet paper sabotage 76: Square shield 77: What are the next two numbers in the sequence? 78: Make ivory soap meringue 79: Six soap cubes 80: Lion and the unicorn 81: Cheap lodging 82: Prince Rupert's cube 83: Make a toilet paper rose 84: Confucius say 85: Knight boots 86: Four doors 87: Vanishing toothbrush trick 88: Make chain mail with pop tabs 89: Levitate a sheet of toilet paper 90: L-shaped inheritance 91: Falconry puzzle 92: Missing fish 93: Condemned to death 94: Would you rather?
£9.49
Everyman Chess The King's Indian Defence: Move by Move
Book SynopsisThe King's Indian is a hugely popular opening at all levels of chess. Rather than attempting to secure early equality, Black is fighting for the initiative from the very first moves. White is allowed to build up an early central advantage but Black relies on the middlegame, hoping that the central installations that White has constructed will become unwieldy and vulnerable to a devastating counterattack. In many variations, White pursues material or strategic gains but in return Black has tactical and attacking opportunities. The King's Indian Defence appeals to players who arrive at the board prepared for a fight. ----- The Move by Move series provides an ideal format for the keen chessplayer to improve their game. While reading you are continually challenged to answer probing questions - a method that greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of chess knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study chess while providing the best possible chance to retain what has been learnt. ----- * Everything you need to know about the King's Indian Defence. --- * The Q and A approach emphasizes plans and strategies. --- * Written by an expert on the opening.Trade ReviewThe best resource available to class players on the KIUD at the moment is The Kings Indian Move by Move by IM Sam Collins. In less than two hundred and forty page the author helps the reader to understand the KID, play the best moves in different variations according to current theory and inject new life in Black’s play against the super solid Fianchetto Variation. As usual the annotations by Collins are great and the twenty nine games are enough for an amateur to start on the right foot his chess career as a KID devotee. --- Miguel Ararat, FloridaChess ----- I found this book essential in order to give me the systematic knowledge to understand more difficult works on the KID. It is true we have hundreds of books on the KID, but the real problem is how to tackle the learning of the material. There should be a kind of staircase to success, and on each step there is a book. On the first step this is the book one needs to read to grasp the general ideas. ----- David Nastasio, Georgia Chess
£999.99
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd Quick Word Search
Book SynopsisSearching for hidden things has always involved a lot of fun and mystery. And word search puzzles offer just this. This book on word search puzzles will not only provide you with pure enjoyment but will also enrich and enhance your vocabulary.
£7.00
New in Chess The Agile London System: A Solid but Dynamic
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£999.99
New In Chess Techniques of Positional Play: 45 Practical
Book SynopsisTechniques of Positional Play, an improved edition of a Russian classic, teaches amateur chess players 45 extremely effective skills in a crystal-clear manner. It is reliving quite heavily and doing very well after a 2023 video by famous YouTube star Andrea Botez. Quite a few of the techniques will be revelations for club players, as they offer solutions for problems amateurs are often only subconsciously aware of. The techniques are easy to understand and memorize. The authors present a wealth of practical examples and do not burden the reader with unnecessary deep analysis. There is a special training section at the end of the book where you can test your newly acquired skills.Trade ReviewOne of the best books on positional play you're ever likely to read. -- Paul Kane Manchester Chess Federation I am absolutely convinced that every (really every!) chess player will learn a whole lot from this book. For me personally it is one of the best chess books on the market today. -- Martin Rieger Schachwelt
£20.66
Edition Olms Secrets of Opening Preparation: School of Future
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£17.99
Edition Olms School of Chess Excellence 3: Strategic Play
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£17.99
Edition Olms School of Chess Excellence 4: Opening
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£17.99
Japan Publications Trading Co Elementary Go: Volume 4: Life & Death: v. 4
£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP The Pirc Defence
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£999.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing 1.d4 d5: A Classical Repertoire
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£17.99
Union Square & Co. Large Print Word Search Puzzles 2
Book SynopsisProvides many word search challenges with large type. The letters in the grid are large, and so are the letters in the word lists, so if you still can't find a word, it won't be because you couldn't read it.
£12.95
Orion Publishing Co Ocean Bingo
Book SynopsisThis family-friendly game is packed with ocean creatures for hours of bingo fun. Includes such favourites as the emperor penguin, sea otter, killer whale and Pacific seahorse as well as lesser known sea inhabitants like the yellow-bellied sea snake and the bioluminescent octopus. Boasting 64 weird, wonderful and beautiful species, Ocean Bingo is filled with fun facts and glorious illustrations that are guaranteed to delight aquatic afficionados. Mark each species off on your card as it’s called and be the first to shout BINGO!
£23.99
Galison Mudpuppy Andy Warhol Soup Can 2sided 500 Piece Puzzle
Book SynopsisTwo puzzles in one! The Andy Warhol Soup Can 2-Sided Puzzle from Galison features 2 versions of Warhol's iconic Pop Art masterpiece. Puzzle pieces have a matte finish on one side and glossy on the other for easy sorting.- Package: 11.5 x 8 x 2- 500 double-sided pieces, one side glossy and one side matte- Complete puzzle: 24 x 18- Includes insert with images for reference
£15.29
Running Press Mini Twister
Book SynopsisAn iconic brand for more than 50 years, TWISTER is a classic game loved by fans of all ages. This officially-licensed kit offers a new mini twist on the game that ties you up in knots -- now you can play with your fingers! Perfectly portable, this nostalgic kit can be played anywhere and includes a mini Twister mat, spinner, mini tube socks for your fingers, and a mini book with history, trivia, and the rules of MINI TWISTER.
£9.60
Galison Outer Space GlowintheDark Puzzle
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£12.82
Prestel Dot Art Sticker Seurat
Book SynopsisThe perfect fun and relaxing art project for adults and children, this activity pack includes everything needed for readers to make their own Pointillist sticker masterpiece. Containing 14 sticker sheets with over three-thousand colored circular stickers and an 18" x 32" (46 x 82.5 cm) poster "canvas" of colored outlines, readers simply need to match the colored stickers to the outlines found on the poster to recreate the painting. Given that Pointillism relies on the ability of the eye and brain to blend colored dots into a fuller range of tones, it's not necessary to place each sticker on precisely the right outline. As a result, every finished poster will be somewhat different- and extremely satisfying. With a handy folder-style flap that allows for easy storage and transportation of the artwork in progress, Dot Art: Sticker Seurat makes the perfect activity to take on vacation or to unwind after a busy day.
£10.44
F&W The Killer Weed Coloring Book
Book SynopsisThe Best Stoner Coloring Book You'll Find. Puff, puff, and pass it on! You've finally found the coloring pages to soothe (or stoke) your inner (or outer) freak.
£12.74
McFarland & Co Inc Fred Reinfeld
Book Synopsis Fred Reinfeld--his name used to be known to almost every chess player in the United States. Not so well known are his accomplishments. One of the strongest players of his time, he ranked just below Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky (against whom he had a plus score). He was the accomplished author of some of the best chess books of the 1930s and 1940s, and a respected numismatist, recognized as a pioneer in the field. He was an editor or major contributor to almost every major chess magazine through the 1940s--Chess Review, Chess Correspondent and Chess Life. This first book on Renfield covers his remarkable contributions to the chess world, with many of his ideas and writings quoted in their original context and with many of his famous annotations preserved for the modern reader.
£46.89
Christian Lacroix Abrams Christian Lacroix Dangerous Game
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£39.10
Chronicle Books After Dinner Amusements Travel Trivia
Book SynopsisTravel around the world without leaving your dinner table, or take this game on the goeither way, the enlightening and entertaining trivia questions in this deck are sure to inspire ideas for the next family vacation!
£9.11
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Arcade Treasures Schiffer Book for Collectors
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£31.44
HarperCollins Publishers Collins Quiz Night
Book SynopsisQuizzing has never been so much fun. Quench your thirst for quiz trivia, with 500 new quizzes to test the brain cells in this bumper new edition of 10,000 questions.Perfect for playing with friends and family!These quizzes are suitable for all ages. good clean fun for all. The answers are quick and easy to find so that anyone can pick this up and become a quiz master or train for the next challenge.10,000 general knowledge and themed questions and answers, will keep even the keenest quizzer occupied for ages.
£9.49
Flame Tree Publishing Arthur Rackham Alice in Wonderland Tea Party 1000
Book SynopsisPart of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring popular works of art. This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring artist Arthur Rackham's Alice in Wonderland Tea Party. Intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.
£999.99
Andrews McMeel Publishing Deadly Skills Puzzle and Activity Book
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£999.99
Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies Defense in the 21st Century
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£18.66
The History Press Ltd The Little Book of Donegal
Book SynopsisA compendium of historical facts and figures perfect for dipping into. Full of information that will make you say ‘I never knew that’
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Linjaa: An Addictive Line Art Game: An Addictive
Book SynopsisCreate the longest line, flip your opponent’s plan or just enjoy the puzzle: it’s up to you to choose a winning strategy. Each card in the game is unique, so it’s not easy to form the longest line. Win or lose, you always create a compelling pattern with Linjaa. Linjaa is a multi-player edge-matching game. When adding a new card to the playing field, you gather points when finishing a line or a ‘circle’. Cards can only be combined when the lines on your card match the lines on the cards already in the field. Concentrate on your own plan or sabotage the plans of your fellow players: it’s up to you to choose which line to take. Whoever succeeds in finishing the most and the longest lines, wins the game.
£16.19
George Braziller Inc Imagery of Chess
Book SynopsisThe Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. The exhibit was a legend in its own time and has been considered a singular event in the history of art exhibitions ever since. The show''s organisers - the influential art dealer Julien Levy, the Surrealist painter Max Ernst, and Dada leader Marcel Duchamp, himself a serious chess player - invited a virtual ''who''s who'' of artists and members of the cultural avant-garde to redesign the standard chess set or otherwise explore chess imagery and its symbolism in bold new ways.Participants included famous European expatriates and soon-to-be famous American modernists: André Breton, Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Ernst, Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, and Yves Tanguy are among those who contributed chess sets; John Cage and Vittorio Rieti created original musical scores; and Dorothea Tanning,
£34.96
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Hilary Jones Behind the
Book SynopsisPart of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-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 Behind the Squires, Devon by Hilary Jones. 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. Includes an A4 poster for reference.Hilary Jones grew up in Somerset but came to London when she was young. She has always loved wildlife and flowers, having gardened with her grandfather when she was little. Although she enjoyed drawing at school, she never had any formal art training, but her love of cats inspired her first successful paintings and they feature in most of her work.
£14.39
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
Thinkers Publishing Chess Calculation Training Volume 2: Endgames
Book SynopsisThe author focused in his first volume on middlegames, now his attention was drawn to endgames. Romain has carefully selected more than 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. He separated the exercises into 11 different categories, covering both tactics and strategy, attack and defence. This book is a fantastic training tool for any player to improve his level of chess thinking.
£20.89
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
Galison Mudpuppy Michael Storrings Dog Park in Four Seasons 250
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£22.39
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
Chronicle Books Cleocatra
Book SynopsisIn this easy-to-learn puzzle game, 2-4 players strategically place pyramid tiles in order to gather and rescue as many adorable cats as possible. The player who quickly rescues the most royal cats wins! Minimal pieces this make game ideal for on-the-go play, and included expansions offer new twists to the game for endlessly engaging feline fun.
£999.99
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
