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New! Stay sharp all year with a calendar packed with puzzles designed for brain fitness. PUZZLES TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN SHARP: Keep your new year’s resolution to keep your brain fit with a brand-new calendar that’s jam-packed with puzzles designed to strengthen concentration, short-term memory, attention to detail, and processing speed. ENTERTAINING TRAINING: Enjoy a variety of fun logic puzzles, number and word games, visual brainteasers, and more, including Pattern Recall, number game Futoshiki, and Change a Letter. Each day’s puzzle specifies the brain function it works out, so you’ll know why you’re playing. BESTSELLING EXPERT AUTHOR: By Dr. Gareth Moore, “Britain’s king of puzzles” and the creator of Brained Up, a cutting-edge brain training site. His expertise + lively puzzles + daily calendar format = a great combination! PLASTIC FREE: Printed on responsibly so

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

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

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

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The ultimate Sudoku title: not just a puzzle book, but a comprehensive encyclopedia of the phenomenon to date, featuring every major variant ever created. Here you will find close to 150 different kinds of Sudoku in 495 puzzles, including Killer Sudoku, Skyscraper Sudoku and multi-grid Samurai Sudoku. No other collection of Sudoku comes close; this is without doubt the most definitive volume of Sudoku variants ever compiled. Another blockbuster from the puzzle master behind the bestselling Mammoth Book of Sudoku.

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Want to keep your brain active and in trim? Challenge your mind with The Penguin Book of Puzzles . . .From the riddles of the ancients to puzzles that perplex the greatest minds of today, The Penguin Book of Puzzles is a glorious compendium of conundrums from throughout history.These challenges will require all the reader's wits to solve, but range from the easy to the brain-bending and are suitable for novice and veteran puzzlers alike.There is something here to suit every taste, including crosswords, mathematical challenges, word games and logic conundrums, but also some intriguing types of puzzles that have been unearthed from centuries gone by.Hours of fun await you in this timeless and entertaining miscellany of puzzlement.____________A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century)There is a house. The blind enter it and then come out seeing. What is that house?____________A CharadeI have wings, yet never fly -I have sails, yet never go -I cant keep still, if I try,Yet forever stand just so.____________

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

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Chiryoku = Intellectual Power. Compared to the West, people in Japan live longer, healthier lives and at the heart of their culture – and part of their daily routine – are brain-training puzzles. The square-box puzzles here, familiar to millions in Japan, are a workout for your mind. Test and strengthen your mental agility, concentration, numerical skills, powers of reasoning, observation and creative thinking. Enjoy working through puzzles that will take you from total beginner to master mind and help keep your brain healthy for years to come.

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From Dr Gareth Moore, the bestselling author of over 35 puzzle books, comes the world's most comprehensive collection of logical puzzles, covering all major types. It has everything from Sudoku and Kakuro through to Hanjie and Slitherlink, plus a whole lot more besides such as Tapa, Fences, Yajilin, Nurikabe, Fillomino and many, many others. All of the puzzles use pure logic, requiring no language or cultural knowledge to solve, so the book is suitable for everyone. Fun and addictive, these puzzles offer a fantastic mental workout. Each of the more than 60 types of puzzle is presented with full instructions in seven carefully graded difficulty levels, from Beginner right through to Master, so whatever your experience you'll find the perfect challenge.

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A fun programme - featuring logic, observation, number and word puzzles, in categories such as reasoning, concentration and speed - that will help to build new brain skills in just a few minutes each day. At the end of each week, a 're-thinking' page features a range of suggestions and ideas to help improve your memory and unleash your creativity, challenging you to make better use of your brain in your daily life. An exceptionally wide range of content - 78 entirely different types of puzzle, none of which repeats within a quarter of a year - provides the novelty that helps a brain to thrive, while puzzles of the same type are carefully arranged in order of increasing difficulty through the book. A scoring system helps to keep you motivated as you improve week by week, with the final page of each week's puzzles offering you the chance to calculate your brain rank as another way to keep pushing yourself. Praise for The Mammoth Book of Fun Brain Training: 'The puzzles are fresh and lively' - Will Shortz

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Beaten Rubik's Cube and ready for your next challenge? Test your wits against 60 mind-bending logic problems set by puzzle experts, from Sudoku and Hanjie to mazes and pattern-matching. Train your brain and take up Rubik's next challenge!

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IFLScience and puzzles unite in the IFLScience! The Official Science Puzzle Book – a perfect combination for anyone who wants to be amazed by the furthest reaches of scientific exploration while solving an enjoyable conundrum.Can you successfully crack the code hidden in the synthetic DNA? Can you bridge neurons in a brain correctly and create consciousness? Are you able to split the atoms without setting off a dangerous chain reaction?These puzzles – alongside more than 100 other enigmas and questions – are combined with colourful introductions to dozens of scientific concepts and discoveries, providing an opportunity for every aspiring scientist to learn and explore while they solve.

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A collection of restful puzzles and brain-training activities, designed to relieve stress andinspire creativity.This is the fourth in a series of four books by the same bestselling author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book, The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2 and The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 3. There is also an ebook, Mindfulness Puzzles for Your Kindle, comprising content from books 2 and 3. Puzzle-solving is a favourite relaxation technique for many, and this book features a wide range ofspecially selected games to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain. Feelthe tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the endorphin-reward buzz as you successfully complete each puzzle.Stimulating your mind with each puzzle also helps unlock your brain's innate creativity, just assleep and rest can help you reach a breakthrough on pending tasks. This book will help you feelrefreshed and renewed, and ready to carry on with your daily life.Puzzles include a wide selection of standard puzzle types, avoiding the stress of the new,but without the boredom of over-repetition. They also include adult versions of relaxing kids'activities, such dot-to-dot puzzles, mazes, colouring-in and spot-the-difference puzzles.

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

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The FIFA Football Puzzle Book is an exciting puzzle challenge for every fan who has ever thought they could do better than the eleven out on the pitch. You enter the competition as your country's star player, with your side battling in the qualifying stages of the FIFA World Cup. It is up to you to lead them to qualification and – dare you dream it? – even to lift the trophy.There are 120 original football-themed puzzles to tackle that take you from the training pitch and talking tactics in the dressing room to the exciting action of match day. Answer them all in time and correctly, and you can become a FIFA World Cup hero.

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A new collection of over 160 relaxing puzzles to help you de-stress and unwindThis is the third in a series of three books by the same author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book and The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2. There is a fourth book coming later in 2020. There is also an ebook, Mindfulness Puzzles for Your Kindle, comprising content from books 2 and 3.Bestselling puzzle master Dr Gareth Moore has created a wide range of specially crafted puzzles to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain, helping you both to relax and release your natural creativity. If you enjoyed the first two books in this series, you'll love this new compilation, which includes all of your favourite puzzle types from the previous books plus some new challenges too.The aim remains the same: feel the tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the rewarding buzz of endorphins as you successfully complete each puzzle.With a mix of both classic and modern puzzle types, this collection includes everything from gentle word puzzles right through to relaxing dot-to-dots, and is sure to contain something for everyone.

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PRE-ORDER THE LATEST PUZZLING PHENOMENON NOW SPYDLE PROMISES TO PERPLEX AND DELIGHT WITH TALES OF ESPIONAGE AND INTRIGUEThe fates of nations, outcomes of wars and general sweep of history have often hinged upon the deciphering of devilishly difficult codes and devious deceptions by spymasters.In Spydle, The National Archives and Britain's leading puzzle masterminds, Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, have drawn on five centuries of British spycraft and cryptography to compile an unputdownable history of real-life codebreaking and espionage through a series of addictive puzzles.Using original documents, maps, ciphers, plans, letters and telegrams from plots and espionage relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, the Gunpowder Plot, Mata Hari, Agent Zigzag and dozens more, Spydle's puzzles are based on real codes and conundrums.Packed with fiendish puzzles covering over 500 years of espionage, could you be a code-cracking

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

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

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

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

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'Britain's King of Puzzles'SunA second collection of restful puzzles and brain-training activities, designed to relieve stress andinspire creativity.This book features a wide range of specially selected games to provide the perfect level of challenge and reward for your brain. Feel the tension release as you focus on each achievable and fun task, and experience the endorphin-reward buzz as you successfully complete each puzzle.Stimulating your mind with each puzzle also helps unlock your brain's innate creativity, just assleep and rest can help you reach a breakthrough on pending tasks. This book will help you feelrefreshed and renewed, and ready to carry on with your daily life.This is the second in a series of four books by the same bestselling author, which currently includes The Mindfulness Puzzle Book, The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 2 and The Mindfulness Puzzle Book 3 with a fourth book to come later in 2020. There is also an ebook, Mindfulness Puzzles for Your Kindle.

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

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Prove your logical and arithmetical prowess by solving the exceptionally tricky problems in Mensa's Most Difficult Number Puzzles. This full-colour book features a huge variety of numerical conundrums that are certain to test even the most adept of puzzlers. Some puzzles – such as sum skyscraper and calcudoku – will test your mental maths, while others – such as touchy and bridges – will provide a trial for your logical and lateral thinking. Are you up to the fiendish challenge?

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More than 200 variations of the world's favourite puzzle have been created to test your Sudoku skills. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of logic. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys mental gymnastics. As well as traditional Sudoku, many varieties such as Samurai Sudoku and 3D Sudoku have been included to provide a further stern examination.

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Test your powers of deduction against more than 200 devilishly difficult Killer Sudoku puzzles. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of logic. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a difficult mental challenge.

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Mensa's Most Difficult Maths Tests provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers. This full-colour book features a huge variety of numerical brainteasers that will test even the most mathematical of minds. With puzzles ranging from the familiar – such as kakuro and killer sudoku - to the exotic – such as sum skyscraper and calcudoku – this fiendish puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours. Are you up to the challenge?

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The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book was 2018's bestselling Christmas gift book so why not brush up on your map reading skills and crack an array of fiendish puzzles all whilst learning amazing facts so YOU can become the ultimate map-reader! Do you know your trig points from your National Trails? Can you calculate using contours? And can you fathom exactly how far the footpath is from the free house? Track down hidden treasures, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you work through this unique puzzle book based on 40 of the Ordnance Survey's best British maps. Explore the first ever OS map made in 1801, unearth the history of curious place names, encounter abandoned Medieval villages and search the site of the first tarmac road in the world. With hundreds of puzzles ranging from easy to mind-boggling, this mix of navigational tests, word games, code-crackers, anagrams and mathematical conundrums will put your friends and family through their paces on the path to becoming the ultimate map-master!

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Stretch your brain power with 20 fact-packed picture quizzes from expert puzzle master Dr Gareth Moore. Can you name a BIRD from its feather? How about a MEAL from its ingredients? What about a SCIENTIST from their discovery? Or a JOB from the equipment? Covering key encyclopaedic topics, from nature, science and technology to sport, History and Geography, keep everyone guessing with hours of family fun. · Part quiz book, part encyclopedia, with gorgeous hand-lettering and traditional artwork, this book is the ultimate gift book that can be enjoyed by the whole family · Full of fun facts on topics from nature to sport - there's something to feed every child's imagination and quench their thirst for knowledge · Written by bestselling international puzzle and brain-trainer; 'Britain's King of Puzzles' - The Sun · Large format making it the perfect quiz book for curious children and their families to gather around

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Test yourself against a fiendishly tricky series of IQ test-style puzzles, the perfect training for those who want to prepare for a Mensa IQ test. This full-colour puzzle book features a wide variety of questions to test every aspect of your brain's workings, from visual and spatial challenges to pattern-based or logical problems. Compiled by Dr Gareth Moore, Mensa's Most Difficult IQ Puzzles will force you to think in new ways and spot patterns you have never seen before in order to solve these demanding conundrums.

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A brand new series from internationally bestselling author, Dr Gareth Moore. Take five with over 200 word searches.Be stylish and smart with this pretty book of Word Searches, which will keep you entertained whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about. Pocket-sized and full of the Word Searches you love to solve, pick up your pen, give your brain a gentle workout and enjoy a little ‘me’ time with the over 150 brand new Word Searches found within.Also available: · Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Crosswords (9781789294187)· Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Sudoku (9781789294194)

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Test your knowledge and get to know the real London.Can you find your way from Bond Street to Kentish Town on a word ladder?Can you crack a 1950s underground code? Puzzle your way across London with this official TfL quiz book and over 200 word puzzles, cryptic clues, number games, anagrams and spot-the-difference challenges. Explore the capital from a whole new point of view, through the maps, posters and other fascinating artifacts of the iconic Underground, stored in Transport for London’s archive.

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A brand new series from internationally bestselling author, Dr Gareth Moore. Take five with over 200 sudoku puzzles.Be stylish and smart with this pretty book of Sudoku, which will keep you entertained whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about. Pocket-sized and full of the Sudoku you love to solve, pick up your pen, give your brain a gentle workout and enjoy a little ‘me’ time with the over 150 brand new Sudoku found within.Also available: · Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Crosswords (9781789294187)· Perfect Pocket Puzzles: Word Searches (9781789294200)

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'Who is the patron saint of gardeners? Which leafy South American herb, 200 times sweeter than sugar, has no calories? These are just two of the knotty brainteasers in this fun book for gardening know-it-alls, ideal for those wanting to test the limits of their botanical knowledge. And if you were wondering, the answers are: St Fiacre and stevia.' - Mail on SundayEver wanted to show just how much you know about roses? Or see if you can remember the Latin name for Japanese Maple? RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book is designed to test your horticultural and botanical knowledge with puzzles to delight and challenge.Featuring more than 400 lavishly illustrated questions, from anagrams to garden history, from obscure tools to identifying plants based on their leaves - there are questions for every level of gardening knowledge.Including...- Solve anagrams to improve your knowledge of Latin names - Test your ability to identify plant anatomy with annotated diagrams- Feature pages contain quizzes on specific themes such as botany, vegetables, houseplants, pests and plant care...and much more.

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An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you… But fret not! You won’t be At Sixes and Sevens for long. In this brilliant, well-rounded guide, Countdown's Rachel Riley will take you back to the very basics, allow you to revisit what you learnt at school (and may have promptly forgotten, *ahem*), build your understanding of maths from the get-go and provide you with the essential toolkit to gain confidence in your numerical abilities. Discover how to divide and conquer, make your decimal debut, become a pythagoras professional and so much more with these easy-to-learn tips and tricks. Packed full of working examples, fool-proof methods, quirky trivia and brainteasers to try from puzzle-pro Dr Gareth Moore, this book is an absolute must-read for anyone and everyone who ever thought maths was ‘above’ them. Because the truth is: you can do it. What’s more, it can be pretty fun too!

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More than 100 crosswords of a variety of difficulty levels, perfect to test your lexical abilities against. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together this rigorous examination of your vocabulary skills. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment, with a mixture of crosswords across a wide variety of topics ensuring that you will need to use a wide range of knowledge to solve them all.

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Improve your mind's power and unlock your full potential with the first in Mensa's new brain-training series.This full-colour book guides you through eight chapters, each focussed on a different aspect of your brain's ability to concentrate, from creativity and problem-solving to lateral and logical thinking.Every chapter takes you through the science behind how your brain works, gives instruction on how to improve your concentration skills, and provides you with a series of puzzles and exercises to get you started on your brain-training journey!

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