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Smart Games: Mind Marathon Word Games: Wordplay, Strategy and Perception Puzzles from Beginner to Expert Level [With CDROM]
This critically acclaimed collection of word puzzles ranging from satisfyingly simple to fiendishly difficult will challenge and delight would-be word wizards. Word Melt, Scramblegrams, Word Hunter, Crossed Words and Word Blocks puzzles are presented one to a page, but the puzzler has more to do than just fill in the blanks. Many of the puzzles have more than one solution, and the puzzler gets points depending on how many steps it takes to arrive at the answer. Recent scientific research recommends that people play challenging games to keep their minds sharp. These books are personal trainers for the hungry hordes of fanatic puzzlers.
Format:Spiral-bound
Language:English
ISBN:1579123635
ISBN13:9781579123635
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 8.4" x 10.0"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Great for fans of word search puzzles, hard for the rest
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
In general, I found the word puzzles in this book to be very hard. Most of them are in the category called "Scramblegrams." The structure of these problems is that a series of words are scrambled, with the letters above a series of dashes to be filled in. Some of the letter positions are highlighted and those letters will then be used to create a final phrase. Another type of problem is the "word melt", where you start with a word and change one letter at a time to end with another word. Each intermediate step must also be a valid word. There are also a few "word search" puzzles. In general, I am not a fan of word puzzles; I do them on occasion for a change a pace and challenge. In this case, for me, the emphasis is on challenge.
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