Games & Activities

The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming

Geek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now, with the ever-increasing popularity of events like Comic Con, transmedia franchising of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, market dominance of video and computer games, and the resurgence of board games such as Settlers of Catan and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Yet even while the comic book and hobby shops where the above are consumed today are seeing an influx of BIPOC gamers, they remain overwhelmingly white, male, and heterosexual.

The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identity’s exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it. It begins by looking at how the privileged networks of model railroad hobbyists in the early twentieth century laid a cultural foundation for the scenes that would grow up around war games, role-playing games, and board games in the decades ahead. These early networks of hobbyists were able to thrive because of how their leisure interests and professional ambitions overlapped. Yet despite the personal and professional strides made by individuals in these networks, the networks themselves remained cloistered and homogeneous—the secret playgrounds of white men.

Aaron Trammell catalogs how gaming clubs composed of lonely white men living in segregated suburbia in the sixties, seventies and eighties developed strong networks through hobbyist publications and eventually broke into the mainstream. He shows us how early hobbyists considered themselves outsiders, and how the denial of white male privilege they established continues to define the socio-technical space of geek culture today. By considering the historical role of hobbyists in the development of computer technology, game design, and popular media, The Privilege of Play charts a path toward understanding the deeply rooted structural obstacles that have stymied a more inclusive community. The Privilege of Play concludes by considering how digital technology has created the conditions for a new and more diverse generation of geeks to take center stage.

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Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations… but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada’s murder mystery?

In 1934, the Observer’s cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written.

The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible – through logic and intelligent reading – to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers.

Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain’s Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks?

Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted.

This is the perfect book for fans of Journal 29, and those who want to re-create an exciting escape-room experience in their own home!

You are Adam Parkinson, an intrepid journalist who has recently been employed by the time-travelling Wexell Corporation. Adam is invited to an unusual art gallery, filled with objects and artworks donated by a mysterious figure. It will be up to you to help Adam unravel the mysteries of the Gallery, and you will travel from Ancient Egypt to Victorian England – and beyond – to do it. And, quite possibly, to save the world!

Escape from the Gallery is an immersive escape-room experience that provides a visual feast as well as a tricky puzzle adventure. Featuring artworks ranging from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to Mexican masterpieces, you will need to solve visual riddles and discover the hidden secrets that lie within the artworks if you want to figure out what is going on, and why this might be the most important visit to a gallery you have ever made.

Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American proposes an analytic focus on open-world videogames' "ambient operations" and traces practices of "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception. Three case studies – concentrating on the Grand Theft Auto, Watch Dogs, and Red Dead Redemption franchises, respectively – highlight different figurations of "playing American." Thematic foci range from public discourses on systemic racism and neoliberal capitalism to the justification of real-world surveillance practices and to the reconfiguration of the Western in the digital age. Playing American provides those interested in either videogames or American culture with a fresh angle and new concepts regarding its subject matters. It demonstrates that videogames are agents of cultural reproduction that do distinct cultural work for American culture in the twenty-first century.

A stunning spiritual toolkit for Ramadan and beyond, to build healthy new habits and strengthen existing practices.

This stunning illustrated journal is an opportunity for you to (re)connect with your faith and help you explore themes and concepts such as compassion, self-awareness, mindfulness, acceptance, and commitment.

Written by psychotherapist Humza Khan, this handy journal features an array of mindful activities and exercises to help you prepare for Ramadan, as well as offering simple yet effective strategies to use throughout the holy month and beyond. This is your spiritual toolkit to help you develop your discipline, build on what Ramadan entails, and work toward a more mindful approach to your faith.

Curl up by the window with this gorgeous, illustrated activity book and enjoy the beauty of birds in winter.  

With dozens of word searches on resident and migrating birds and cozy winter themes, The Christmas Bird Search celebrates the wonders of the season—and the birds that bring it to life. Throughout, find fascinating bird facts, tips on watching and supporting your resident winter birds, and journal prompts to hone your powers of observation and bring your focus to the unique seasonal joys that surround you. And when you spot a feathered friend taking refuge in your area, you can record it in the book’s handy bird-tracking chart.  

Offering moments of calm and contemplation, The Christmas Bird Search is perfect for bird lovers, bird-watchers, and anyone who relishes the turn of the seasons.  

A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Two Flying Scotsmen is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages.

The fifth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Two Flying Scotsmen is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story. In this latest tale, Sherlock Holmes and Watson find themselves trapped on a Flying Scotsman bound for Edinburgh after being mistakenly led to believe that Sherlock is needed in Scotland to thwart a plot against the Queen. Readers will quickly discover that the actual plot in motion is to rig a rail race between the two Flying Scotsmen happening that day. A race where the Queen’s son Bertie has ill-advisedly lent money to a small gang of ne’er-do-wells within the household of the socialite Daisy Greville. A woman with whom Bertie is having a secret affair.

With Sherlock trapped on one train and the gang rigging the other, readers will face many challenges in order to thwart the gang and prevent the news of Bertie’s affair reaching the public. Something readers must do before the race between the two locomotives concludes in Edinburgh.

The readers as Sherlock must solve the puzzles aboard the train and alert the authorities before reaching the stop at York. However, this isn’t the only challenge the readers will face as anti-monarchists – aware of the gang’s plot, also seek to destroy the reputation of the monarchy by attempting to derail one of the trains so the money can be lost and Bertie’s secrets can be exposed.

With the reputation of royalty at stake, readers will follow Sherlock as he strives to solve the puzzles and prevent the royal scandal from breaking. If Holmes fails to solve the mystery, not only a train but also the reputation of the monarchy could be catastrophically derailed.

Puzzles include: Riddles, Logic Puzzles, Timed Challenges, Mathematical Brainteasers, Maps and Mazes.

The Alcatraz Escape Book is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages.

An exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story, this book is inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms as well as the history surrounding America’s most infamous prison.

Readers will take on the role of Scott Wilson, a member of an underground US environmental movement called the Wilderness, who has discovered that a farming lobby is illegally using toxic pesticides to sell large amounts of land cheaply to corrupt politicians. There is enough evidence safely tucked away in a secret location to bring these criminals to justice, but failed sting operation takes place which leaves an FBI agent dead and Scott framed for the murder.

Framed as a traitor and a murderer and sent to Alcatraz as a result, the reader must escape the forbidding, top-security jail, recover the lost evidence and stop the pollution and land sale before it’s too late. Surrounded by the most notorious, dangerous and unpredictable inmates, the reader will quickly learn that their only means of escape will be from solving hidden puzzles using the code wheel left behind by the renowned criminal mastermind Robert Stroud – the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.

Nobody has ever escaped Alcatraz alive, and with time quickly running out, the reader will have to find unlikely allies who can help them break out and aid them when they come to face the perilous waters surrounding the prison in order to escape the Rock.

Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.

Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King George V due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumors of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages.

The fourth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Tower of London is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover.

In the latest adventure in the series, readers will take on the role of the world’s foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty has locked Sherlock’s friend, the musician Odon von Mihalovic, with the Crown Jewels in a cage in Tower Bridge the night before a special ceremony is due to be held for the Queen. Holmes and Watson are themselves trapped in the nearby Tower of London by Moriarty, and they must work through the night and against the clock to find and free Odon from the cage to prevent him being disgraced in the ceremony the following morning.

Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.

This ingenious series is a spin on the current urban craze for 'Escape Rooms', in which participants are locked in rooms, and must solve the puzzles they find there to make good their escape. Here, the book becomes the locked room, the pages become the path, and the reader can take on a challenge every bit as brain-teasing from the comfort of their own home. Visual clues are hidden among the intriguing illustrations; fiendish riddles, logic puzzles, and timed challenges unlock hidden doors and reveal the direction of travel; and mathematical problems provide the codes required to follow the correct path. There are maps and mazes to explore; references to the original Sherlock Holmes adventures to unravel; and a code-wheel that holds the key to unlocking the next page. Solve the puzzles correctly to escape. Get them wrong, and you will find yourself further and further along the path to your own demise.

Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover. 

Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson and aspiring engineer Henrietta Prince in the grand home of Bertram Alfreds, the last surviving child of Lord Byron. After being lured to the residence by an intriguing mechanical music box, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the mansion, foil a deceitful plot to destroy Henrietta's lifelong work – a replica of Babbage's Analytical Engine – and fathom the involvement of Moriarty, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

The next challenge for fans of Cain's Jawbone: the TikTok sensation and international bestseller.

A body is found stabbed to death in a locked room. The police find no weapon, no motive and no suspects.

However, the murderer has in their possession a box of one hundred cryptic picture postcards which – if properly understood – would explain not just this murder, but nine others. This book contains those cards.

Solvers must rearrange the pages of text to unravel the story and identify the murderer, victim and location for each of the ten murders. They must also consider the separate puzzles presented by the curious images on the other sides.

Torquemada taught us that complete dedication is key and from devising detective pinboards to daily investigation diaries, Cain’s Jawbone puzzlers did him proud. But now the time has come to dust off that magnifying glass, because a global movement to solve the first picture postcard puzzle is about to begin. Do you have what it takes to explain The Researcher’s First Murder?

Since 2016, podcasting legend Jeff Cannata has delighted Filmcast listeners with show-stopping movie reviews in poetic form. Now, lovers of the silver screen can enjoy reels of these laugh-out-loud limericks in Best Summed Up: a must-have quiz compendium for cinephiles.

From applauding filmmaking mastery in box office sell-outs to damning dismissals of action big hitters that have missed the mark, Cannata critiques every genre of contemporary film and unpicks all must-see releases from 2018 to 2024 with his signature wit and wisdom.

The challenge is simple: readers must identify the film described by each verse in five, delightfully moreish levels of brain-teasing poems. So grab some popcorn and see if you can achieve award-winning status of your own by completing the ultimate test for movie buffs.

¿Te imaginas que pudieras influir en el estado de tu cuerpo y tu mente recitando ciertos números a una determinada cadencia? 

Un bestseller coreano que nos introduce en la llamada «Terapia de los números»

Esta revolucionaria guía ilustrada promueve grandes mejoras en el bienestar mediante la denominada «Terapia de los números». La repetición de ciertos números durante un período de 30 días en un orden y una cadencia concreta ofrece a los lectores la oportunidad de iniciar una reprogramación de su pensamiento que tendrá enormes beneficios para el bienestar, el nivel de energía personal, la memoria, la concentración.

El Chaseo Rules Institute, fundado por Park Byong‐won, es un centro de investigación y desarrollo que congrega a los especialistas más punteros de ámbitos tan diversos como el derecho, la medicina, la ingeniería, las humanidades, la educación, economía y finanzas, educación física, etcétera, para idear un marco de trabajo que combina hallazgos relacionados con el sistema numérico tradicional de Asia y la teoría de la música.

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Can you imagine if you could influence the state of your body and mind by reciting certain numbers at a certain cadence? 

A Korean bestseller that introduces us to the so-called "Therapy of Numbers"

This revolutionary illustrated guide promotes great improvements in well-being through the so-called "Numbers Therapy". The repetition of certain numbers over a period of 30 days in a particular order and cadence offers readers the opportunity to initiate a reprogramming of their thinking that will have enormous benefits for well-being, personal energy level, memory, concentration.

The Chaseo Rules Institute, founded by Park Byong‐won, is a research and development center that brings together the most cutting-edge specialists from fields as diverse as law, medicine, engineering, humanities, education, economics and finance, physical education, etc., to devise a framework that combines findings related to the traditional Asian numerical system and music theory.

YouTube sensation Stuart Ashen is back with his second instalment of terrible old computer games you’ve probably never heard of... because what the world needs right now is to know exactly how bad Domain of the Undead for the Atari 8-bit computers was.

Attack of the Flickering Skeletons is even bigger than the original Terrible Old Games You’ve Probably Never Heard Of – this second excavation of gaming’s buried past will not only unearth more appalling excuses for digital entertainment, but also feature guest contributors and several special interest chapters not based around single specific games.

These are NOT the games you’ve heard of a million times in YouTube videos. This is a compilation of truly obscure and dreadful games. Dripping with wry humour and featuring the best, worst graphics from the games themselves, this book encapsulates the atrocities produced in the days of tight budgets and low quality controls.

Welcome to a world of games you never knew existed. You will probably wish you still didn’t.

Test How Well You Know Our Most Beloved Festive Films This Christmas With Tricky Trivia for All the Family

Whether you're testing your memory on family favorites or expanding your knowledge of festive films, this book promises to make your holiday gatherings merrier, more fun, and full of memorable cinematic moments.

Christmas trivia questions. Are you ready to settle the age-old debate of which Christmas film deserves a prime spot in your heart and which one belongs on the naughty list? Quiz Actually is not just a fun trivia book, it's the perfect Christmas holiday movie trivia book to liven up your Christmas day celebrations.

Add a sprinkle of challenge and a dash of entertainment to your Christmas festivities. Quiz Actually celebrates the diverse array of films that have nestled their way into every family's holiday tradition. But here's the twist: how well do you really know these movies you watch year after year?

The ultimate Christmas day family game book. Fun and entertaining for the entire family, Quiz Actually is packed with over 750 questions and featured films including: Love, Actually; Home Alone; It's a Wonderful Life; Elf; The Grinch; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Scrooged; Bridget Jones's Diary; Harry Potter; The Holiday; Die Hard (yes; and many, many more!

Inside, you'll find:

• A treasure trove of fun and entertaining quiz questions
• Christmas fun that the whole family can enjoy
• Christmas classics and the unexpected holiday film

If you enjoy trivia activity books such as Broadway Musical Trivia Book, Christmas Trivia, or Your Brain on Facts, then Quiz Actually is for you.

"A labour of undiluted love and enthusiasm." — Daily Telegraph

As Daniel Hardcastle careers towards thirty, he looks back on what has really made him happy in life: the friends, the romances… the video games. Told through encounters with the most remarkable – and the most mind-boggling – games of the last thirty-odd years, Fuck Yeah, Video Games is also a love letter to the greatest hobby in the world.

From God of War to Tomb Raider, Pokémon to The Sims, Daniel relives each game with countless in-jokes, obscure references and his signature wit, as well as intricate, original illustrations by Rebecca Maughan. Alongside this march of merriment are chapters dedicated to the hardware behind the games: a veritable history of Sony, Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles.

Joyous, absurd, personal and at times sweary, Daniel's memoir is a celebration of the sheer brilliance of video games.

Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture

What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?

From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large?

How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

Who were Canada's ten most romantic couples of the twentieth century? What were this country's worst disasters, its ten best beers, and its most controversial works of art in the past one hundred years? Where will you find the most haunted places in Canada and who are Canada's greatest heroes, its most accomplished athletes, and its most despised criminals?

The Great Canadian Book of Lists chronicles a century of achievements, trends, important and influential people, and fascinating events that have shaped this country as it heads into a new millennium. Award-winning writers Mark Kearney and Randy Ray, who have delighted readers with their bestselling books The Great Canadian Trivia Book and The Great Canadian Trivia Book 2, turn the spotlight on the twentieth century to determine the best, worst, and most significant happenings in our lives.

Not content with supplying a shopping list of items about Canada, Kearney and Ray provide plenty of details to support why certain people and events are included on the lists. And their statistical snapshots comparing a variety of societal trends over different years show readers how Canada has changed in the course of the past century.

You'll also learn how experts from the worlds of science, sports, lifestyle, literature, and politics rate the personalities and events that have made Canada what it is today. And several guest celebrities weigh in with lists they've created exclusively for The Great Canadian Book of Lists.

Enlightening, controversial and fun, The Great Canadian Book of Lists is bound to start as many arguments as it settles. Was Guy Lafleur a better hockey player than Rocket Richard? Why are rower Silken Laumann and actress Margot Kidder on the same list? What were the best Canadian novels of the twentieth century? And what are some key milestones achieved by Canadian women, medical doctors, inventors, and musicians?

Innovations and flops, successes and failures, comebacks and breakthroughs, record setters and trend setters: You'll find them all in The Great Canadian Book of Lists.

Mark Kearney and Randy Ray, Canada's Trivia Guys, thought they had covered it all with their previous best-selling trivia books, but it turns out this country has even more weird and wonderful tales to tell. Pucks, Pablum and Pingos is a unique collection of easy-to-read trivia bites, quizzes, and graphics that touches on history, sports, politics, entertainment, and more. Fun and full of factual fare, this book will satisfy the curious and indulge the inquisitive.

Test your wits against 210 brand-new killer sudokus with this formidable collection of the world's favourite puzzle.

This compilation draws on all the knowledge of the expert puzzle writers at the Guardian, whose killer sudokus are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. All of your logical reasoning will be required to solve these previously unpublished puzzles, specially designed to increase in difficulty as the book progresses.

Dive into this challenging collection of the world's favourite puzzle, with 210 brand-new sudokus to savour. 

The Guardian's sudoku puzzles are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day and are now available in this carefully curated compilation. These previously unpublished puzzles increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so will test everyone from a sudoku novice to a seasoned expert.

In Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.

How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are “just games”? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy?
In Games are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. Games are not focuses on games writ large, bound by neither digital form nor by cultural interpretation. Interdisciplinary in scope and radical in conclusion, Games are not positions games as unique objects evoking a peculiar and paradoxical liminal state – a lusory attitude – that is essential to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.

In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more robust, multi-dimensional approaches to analyses of the political interests of gender.

Leading gender studies’ scholars utilise different research traditions to investigate topics including human rights, women’s movements, gendered labour markets, international monetary policy, equality policy, and queer politics. This unique anthology includes theoretical and empirical work, illustrating how to build bridges between materialist and discursive theoretical frameworks for understanding the politics of gender. It will be a trend-setting text for advanced gender studies political science, and sociology courses, as well as for professionals in these fields.

With nearly 200 puzzles, this is a tricky collection perfect for anyone who works too hard and likes to reset their mental faculties with a classic logic test.

Continuing the popular Overworked & Underpuzzled series, Killer Sudoku is often seen as the most challenging Sudoku, and so this is the perfect puzzle book for anyone who loves to be tested during their coffee break.

With 200 all-time favorite puzzles, you'll have all the fun of puzzling, and still be able to decompress after a long day.

When you need to unwind, the last thing you want is to have to wrap your head around an intricate new puzzle type. Overworked and Underpuzzled: Puzzles to Unwind is the puzzle book for you. With 200 all-time favourite puzzles, you'll have all the fun of puzzling, and still be able to decompress after a long day.

Conundrum favorites included inside are crosswords, logic grids, jig words, Sudoku, spot the difference, riddles and more, and each challenge has been designed at a level to massage your mind when you need it most.

Test yourself against the world's favourite puzzle, with 210 previously unpublished sudoku to savour.

The Guardian's sudoku puzzles are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys unwinding with some mental gymnastics. The puzzles have been designed to increase in difficulty as the book progresses, meaning this book can be enjoyed by both novice and master alike. This is the first book in a new Guardian puzzle series.

Whether you’re a geek or not, this fun guide helps you win at life by harnessing the power of science!

While geeks’ obsessive desire for data makes them constant curators of useless information, it also drives them to great lengths to find the solutions to everyday problems. What moves will impress a hot date on the dance floor? Is there an optimum angle for skipping a stone? Science the Sh*t Out of Life reveals the geeky secrets to living smarter, offering scientifically sourced advice for dealing with everything life throws at you. 

Presented with top tips, infographics, and a sense of humor, this guide will appeal not just to Star Trek junkies and computer nerds but also to anyone seeking answers to eternal questions on health, career, love, leisure, travel, money, and technology.

Test your wits against 210 difficult previously unpublished killer sudoku puzzles in the first book in the new Guardian puzzle book series.

The Guardian's killer sudoku puzzles are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. While only a minimal level of mathematical knowledge is needed, all of your logical reasoning will be required to solve these brand-new puzzles. The puzzles have been designed to increase in difficulty as the book progresses, meaning this book can be enjoyed by novice and master alike.

Baseball Facts and MLB Trivia for the Ultimate Baseball Fan

In this third title published by National Baseball Hall of Fame Books, test your knowledge of baseball trivia against the experts—the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

The history of baseball is etched in its trivia. No American sport is chronicled through its trivia and statistics more than baseball. Now, the National Baseball Hall of Fame presents the ultimate baseball trivia book, So You Think You Know Baseball. 

Hit it out of the park at your MLB trivia night or in an after-dinner baseball quiz with your family. Selected by the historians and curators at the Baseball Hall of Fame, over 100 years of rich baseball history is packed into this virtual reference guide of facts, figures, and fascinating tidbits about our national pastime. 

In So You Think You Know Baseball, find 450 challenging baseball trivia questions organized into nine themed chapters covering a wide range of baseball history:

• Baseball Firsts – famous firsts for almost every aspect of baseball history
• First Year Phenoms – rookie sensations and first year wonders
• Legendary Sluggers – Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth & more
• Historic Hurlers – celebrated pitchers and their remarkable accomplishments on the mound
• Record Breakers – notable players and teams who left their mark in the record books
• Hall of Famers – baseball’s all-time greats enshrined in Cooperstown
• Baseball in Pop Culture – discover the many ways baseball has influenced American culture
• The Postseason – highlighting the celebrated moments in World Series history
• Baseball Potpourri – unique facts about America’s Pastime

Also don’t miss other titles published by National Baseball Hall of Fame Books, Picturing America’s Pastime, Memories from the Microphone, and Baseball Memories and Dreams.

Fun Trivia Questions and Answers for Brainiacs

“A fun collection of facts that will leave you full of information you never knew you needed to know!” ―Sophie Stirling, author of We Did That?

#1 Bestseller in Reference, Puzzles, Trivia, Curiosities & Wonders, Popular Culture

The world is full of things you didn’t know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. From the eponymous podcast comes Your Brain on Facts.

Train your brain. So what if you picked up some historical inaccuracies (and flat-out myths) in history class. Your Brain on Facts is here to teach and reteach readers relevant trivia. It explains surprising science in simple language, gives the unexpected origins of pop culture classics, and reveals important titbits related to current issues.

A brain food boost. Get ready for trivia night done right. Inside, find true facts, strange facts, and just plain weird facts. Your Brain on Facts features fun trivia questions and answers, offering science, art, technology, medicine, music, and history trivia to brainiacs everywhere.

Inside discover weird facts and just plain useless fun facts like:

• What’s the language of the stateless nation in the Pyrenees mountains
• Where the world-changing birth control pill was tested
• Who wrote lyrics for the Star Trek theme song that were never used

If you enjoyed Interesting Stories for Curious People, Stuff You Should Know, The Book of General Ignorance, The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever, The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information, or The Book of Unusual Knowledge, you’ll have a blast with Your Brain on Facts.

#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Which games are worth playing?

The 50 best games: From pixelated pioneer adventures to stunning space odysseys, the boundaries of the video game world are expanding every day. Grand epics and gritty mysteries. Fierce competition and friendly cooperation. Powerful emotions and uproarious laughter. Video games are fantastically diverse and wonderfully creative, but not all games are created equal. With so many games out there on so many different consoles, computers, and devices, how do you decide which games are worth playing? Backed by years of writing about games professionally and decades spent playing them, Chris Watters lays out a list of 50 games to entertain and enlighten you. Whether you’re trying to learn more about the world of gaming or strengthening your claim to true gaming fluency, these are the games you’ll want to play, and why you’ll want to play them.

“If you’re ready for an extra-hard, old-time challenge, have at it!”-- Will Shortz

From the creator and publisher behind the viral sensation Cain's Jawbone: A Very Novel Mystery, is a collection of 112 difficult cryptic crossword puzzles.

Before Edward Powys Mathers wrote the world's most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle, he was a cryptic crossword creator. Under his pseudonym "Torquemada", his puzzles would taunt readers for days. He created his first cryptic crossword puzzle in 1924 and went on to set them for the Saturday Westminster and the Observer for the next 15 years. His true identity was only revealed when he died in 1939. 

As well as earning the reputation for setting the world's toughest crosswords, Torquemada - or 'Torq' as he was often referred to - was also delightfully creative: with many puzzles written in perfectly constructed verse, or delivered as mini-narratives to their solvers. There's even a version where the clues are knock-knock jokes. 

For many years cryptic crosswords were simply known as puzzles in the 'Torquemada style'. This selection of Torquemada's best crosswords was originally published in 1942 and contains three short accounts of Torquemada's life and achievements, including one by his widow, R.C. Mathers as well as a foreword by the crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times, Will Shortz. The successful revival of Cain's Jawbone has inspired a new generation of puzzle solvers.

Here then is the next challenge for Torquemada's fans - dare you take it on?

Improve your mind's power and unlock your full potential with the first in Welbeck's new brain-training series.

This full-color book guides you through eight chapters, each focused 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!

Improve your powers of memory and recall and unlock your full potential with this brand-new title in Welbeck's brain-training series.

This full-color book guides you through eight chapters, each focused on your memory, how it works, and how you can both maintain and improve it.

From tricks of visualization and linking to mnemonics and mind palaces, as you progress your memorization skills will improve in both the short and long-term. The book will take you through the science behind memory, give instruction on how to improve yourself, and provide you with a series of puzzles and exercises to get you started on your memory-improving journey!

This collection of bite-sized crosswords provides more than 200 speedy challenges to tackle.

From the experts at the Guardian comes this brand new and entertaining collection, the fourth in the series of quick crossword puzzle books. The Guardian crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day, celebrated for their wide variety of clues spanning a vast range of subjects.

Push the limits of your logical reasoning with these visually pleasing puzzles.

Train your brain by solving this superb collection of logic puzzles, designed to help your mind reach peak performance.

Perfect for both the puzzler-on-the-go or someone who simply wants to unwind, Perplexing Logic Puzzles contains more than 100 numerical logic puzzles of a variety of difficulty levels.

Challenge yourself with this essential puzzling partner.

The ability to think logically will help you to see the wood for the trees and allow you to make effective, reasoned decisions, even when faced with stressful situations.

Everyone can improve their logical-thinking abilities - it just takes an understanding of some basic principles and a good deal of practice. Even if you don't think of yourself as a logical thinker, you'll be amazed at the ways in which you can train your brain to think things through and come up with the right solutions. This title includes some basic exercises and logic puzzles to focus your brain and help you practise what you've learnt elsewhere in the book.

Inspired by the best-selling board game that has sold over 30 million copies, the Catan Puzzle Book is the perfect gift for fans of the Catan franchise who want to expand beyond the board game experience.

The timeless world of Catan is waiting for you to explore, build, settle... and solve! Inside the Catan Puzzle Book are 100 original puzzles based on the wildly popular board game, providing a narrative adventure that allows you to discover the unsettled island of Catan.

Alongside original artworks from Settlers of Catan, each puzzle contains its own pleasures and solving them allows you to win resources. Resources lead to victory points... and victory points lead to success!

Contents:

This book includes 10 chapters of puzzles, each containing 10 puzzles set in the Catan world. The puzzles may be solved on their own or as part of a narrative that runs through the book. Each correctly answered puzzle awards the reader resources, which can eventually be converted into achievements and victory points. Upon earning enough victory points, the reader wins the book! Catan Puzzle Book is also fantastically illustrated throughout with more than 150 in-world artworks.

The Most Difficult Math Tests provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers.

All aspects of arithmetical thinking are tested by the world's finest puzzle-setters. With puzzles ranging from killer Sudoku to numerical crosswords, this colourful puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours.

Inspired by the hit board game that has sold over 12 million copies, travel the world from the comfort of your home with the Ticket to Ride Puzzle Book. 

Based on the award-winning board game, this book is packed full of 100 original, colourful and exciting challenges for puzzlers and board-game enthusiasts alike.

It's the year 1900, and you are a young tourist setting off on a global rail journey. Voyaging from city to city across countries and continents, you meet an entertaining set of characters who provide you with a perplexing set of brainteasers, from logic problems and train track puzzles to riddles and linguistic conundrums.

Climb aboard and ride across the world in 100 globe-trotting puzzles!

Based on the hit card game that has sold millions of copies around the world, the Unlock! Escape Adventure Puzzle Book provides a new way to enjoy the popular Unlock! Escape Adventure series.

Immerse yourself in this colourful escape-room experience, which can be enjoyed either at home on your own or with a group. There are three adventures for you to challenge yourself against, each with their own charming narrative: 

Enter a secret underground lab to recover a mysterious and important serum that has the potential to drastically change the world!

The dastardly Professor NoSide has trapped you in his lair! With the help of a friendly mouse, can you free yourself in time to foil his evil plans?

Your friend Professor Tempus has disappeared, just as you arrived to experiment with his time machine. Can you solve the mystery before our timeline is damaged forever?

Are you up to the challenge? You will have to use all of your wits, logic and skill to solve these puzzles, escape and SAVE THE WORLD!

Chill-out Codewords contains hundreds of codeword puzzles perfectly designed to fit into your busy lifestyle.

This is a great challenge for anyone who works too hard and deserves to chill-out with a relaxing puzzle collection.

You and your team are the only things standing in the way of the deadly diseases that threaten the world. The fate of humanity is in your hands!

A pandemic has gripped the globe, endangering not just the health and wellbeing of billions of people, but society and the future of civilization itself. You must guide your team to turn the tide and save the world, but to do so you will have to solve a series of difficult puzzles to decode the diseases, identify their weaknesses and find the cure.

The book contains numerous team members and locations familiar to anyone who knows and loves the original board games. Each chapter contains visual cryptic conundrums for you to ponder over, translating the Pandemic game into a thrilling global narrative. Are you ready for this exciting puzzle adventure?

Isn't it frustrating when you know that the solution to a problem is right before you but you just can't see it?

Thinking and working out problems needn't be hard work - in fact, trying too hard can trap you in rigid thought patterns and blind you to unexpected but brilliant solutions. This enlightening guide will show you how to see and think in new ways. You'll gain fresh understanding of your powers of perception, and through simple exercises you'll develop the skills to think in new directions.

The Assassin's Creed Escape Room Puzzle Book is an exciting journey through history in which you must solve a series of puzzles and mysteries to save humanity.

You are Joey, a museum worker who comes across a mysterious blade that sets in motion a chain of events that completely upends your life. Drawn into the world of the Assassins, you must tour through time and space – from 5th century BCE Greece to the catacombs of medieval Venice – in order to foil a malevolent Isu plot.

Featuring characters and locations familiar to fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise and written by an experienced real-life escape-room creator, this immersive escape-room experience is both visually exciting and a difficult puzzle quest.

Can you solve the conundrums and reveal the Isu plan in time to save the world?

How do captains of industry and the greatest strategic minds come to the decisions they do?

Learn how to think in ways that will help keep you one step ahead, while completing enjoyable brain-training puzzles. Debating skills, sound logical reasoning and thinking outside the box are all examined, bringing you a new understanding of tactics, strategy and decision-making.

Includes an extended introduction with advice on how to think in tactical ways, as well as How to Think tips to improve your critical-thinking skills as you work through 50 testing puzzles.

Featuring 150 iconic artworks, The National Gallery Masters of Art Puzzle Book is a visually spectacular puzzle challenge perfect for any art-enthusiast. 

This must-buy gift book contains 100 puzzles reproducing and inspired by the world's most famous paintings, making it a truly one-of-a-kind decorative delight.

From pictorial puzzles such as Fake or Fortune, Jigsaw and Scrambled Image, to cryptic puzzles like Odd One Out or The Missing Link, through logic puzzles, riddles and even a series of progressively more difficult art knowledge quizzes, there is something for everyone, from the puzzle master to the art aficionado.

Featured paintings include Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner, The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, The Hay Wain by John Constable, The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, Bathers at La Grenouillère by Claude Monet and many, many more

The Most Difficult Geometric Puzzles provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers.

The world's most ingenious puzzle setters have created a series of conundrums to stretch your spatial awareness and mathematical dexterity. With puzzles ranging from area mazes to trigonometric conundrums, this colorful puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours.

Sherlock Holmes may be the world's greatest detective, but he needs your help.

Join the renowned sleuth and his assistant Dr Watson as they travel across Victorian England, encountering mysterious crimes along the way. Using just  Watson's illustrated case notes, can you unravel the twists and turns of each remarkable story?

• After reading ten original cases, you will need to solve baffling questions such as:
  
• Who murdered the High Court judge, and why?
  
• How did the Baker Street Irregulars know the warehouse robbery was an inside job?
  
• And did the stonemason really die in a climbing accident?

Are you up to Sherlock's challenge?

An investigative narrative is weaved through over 100 puzzles, from word searches and anagrams to logical thinking and longer stories where you'll need to read between the lines and gather any clues, evidence and discrepancies to solve a series of cases.

Don your disposable gloves and plastic booties and step past the DO NOT ENTER tape into Crime Scene Investigation - Puzzle Unit. You're joining the forensive team to work through a series of grisly murders, robberies and deceptions; you'll need to gather evidence, sift through lies and puzzle your way through the twists and turns of life in the crime lab. But it's not always just the criminals who obstruct your investigations... there's a mole in the team, and it's up to you to find them.

If you fancy yourself the next Gil Grissom or Horatio Caine, then this is your chance to test your deductive skills and powers of observation and see if you match up to the greats. Over 100 puzzles, cases and conundrums allow you to step into the shoes of a forensic expert and see if all those hours of TV bingeing have finally paid off.

IFLScience and puzzles unite in the IFL Science! 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 introductions to dozens of scientific concepts and discoveries, providing an opportunity for every aspiring scientist to learn and explore while they solve.

Don't get stuck in a rut – unleash your ingenuity with these creative puzzles.

Imaginative thinking helps you in all aspects of life. It allows you to become more resourceful at problem solving, or to develop unorthodox strategies for dealing with any situation that might come your way. These brain-training puzzles will teach you how to break out of the thought patterns that are stifling your ingenuity.

Includes an extended introduction with advice on how to think in new creative ways, as well as How to Think tips to improve your innovative-thinking skills as you power through 50 visually stimulating puzzles.

The game is afoot once more, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are back to solve criminal mysteries and puzzles alike.

In Sherlock Holmes Mind Palace Puzzles, Dr John Watson shares the great detective's memory-boosting techniques to help you start to think the Sherlock way. As you work your way through Watson's latest selection of his esteemed colleague's cases, Sherlock shares his knowledge of how the human brain works, meaning that you will find your memory skills improving until you too can create your very own Mind Palace!

The book includes 100 memory puzzles and classic Sherlock mysteries to solve, all written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's revered stories.

The Most Difficult Pattern Puzzles provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers.

Your mind will need to be at it's most nimble to spot the patterns and crack the codes hidden within these conundrums. With puzzles ranging from alphabetical ciphers to geometric sequence problems, this colourful puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours.

Concebidos como adictivos rompecabezas, cada uno de los acertijos te desafiará a descubrir quién, con qué arma y dónde ocurrieron los crímenes, empleando únicamente la lógica. Examina las pistas, entrevista a los testigos y haz que encajen todas las piezas del caso para descubrir al culpable. 

A medida que avances, la complejidad irá aumentando, pero ¡no te rindas! Repleto de ilustraciones, códigos y mapas, Murdle esconde un mensaje que podrás descifrar solo cuando hayas resuelto todos los asesinatos… 

Lleno a más no poder de ingenio e intriga, es la experiencia perfecta para los amantes de la novela negra y el juego que necesita el detective que todos llevamos dentro.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Conceived as addictive puzzles, each of the puzzles will challenge you to discover who, with what weapon and where the crimes occurred, using logic alone. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and make all the pieces of the case fit together to uncover the culprit. 

As you progress, the complexity will increase, but don't give up! Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, Murdle hides a message that you can decipher only when you've solved all the murders...  

Filled to the brim with wit and intrigue, it's the perfect experience for lovers of crime fiction and the game that the detective in all of us needs.

A poignant and compassionate work of literary journalism that tackles Australia’s most controversial pastime.

Almost 200,000 poker machines sing and flash in pubs, clubs, and casinos in every corner of the country. They’re highly complex devices, their components designed by mathematicians, musicians, animators, and ergonomic experts. They’re also widely considered the most harmful form of gambling, the cause of the majority of gambling addictions. So how did Australia evolve into a pokie nation?

With startlingly candid interviews from gambling addicts, politicians, manufacturers, neuroscientists, counsellors, anti-gambling campaigners, and gambling advocates, One Last Spin explores how the machines work to hook people in, and the vicious fight being waged to evict them from the country’s social life. It is a confronting tale about the human cost of addiction, of governments pandering to corporate interests, and of the insidious power of the industry’s PR spin.

Al momento del cierre, Jaume Sués Caula contaba en su blog Retosmentales.com con 9 millones de visitas. En su auge, menos de 40 minutos mediaban entre la publicación de un acertijo y la recepción de su respuesta correcta, desde distintos lugares del mundo. 

A través de estas páginas, el autor invita a los lectores a resolver los enigmas en menos de 40 minutos. Quienes lo consigan, habrán vencido a un blogósfera de expertos en juegos de ingenio.  Asimismo, habrán entrenado su capacidad deductiva, su pensamiento lateral, su creatividad, su visión espacial y habrán desempolvado todos los recovecos de su cerebro, a la vez que disfrutarán, de desafíos que contienen una pequeña historieta.  

Lose yourself in another mystifying collection of puzzles from the UK's most devious cryptic crossword creators.

The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Now you can test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral thinking against 120 classic puzzles from the Guardian's extensive archives with the fourth book in the Guardian cryptic crossword series.

This book contains more than 200 crosswords, perfect for a quick – but challenging – test of your deductive skills.

The Guardian's many crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. With a wide variety of clues from a vast range of subjects, these crosswords will provide a stern examination of your lexical knowledge, but are concise enough to be solved in bite-sized chunks. This is the first in a brand-new series of Guardian puzzle books.

The Most Difficult Logic Problems provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers.

Sound reasoning and logical thinking are foundations of all types of puzzle solving, and you will need to be first-rate at both to work these conundrums out successfully. With classic logic puzzles like Sudoku to tricky narrative lateral thinking-style puzzles, this colourful puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours.

This book contains more than 200 crosswords, perfect for a quick - but challenging - test of your deductive skills.

The Guardian's many crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. With a wide variety of clues from a vast range of subjects, these crosswords will provide a stern examination of your lexical knowledge, but are concise enough to be solved in bite-sized chunks. This is the second in a brand-new series of Guardian puzzle books.

As addictively enjoyable as they are compulsively difficult, get ready for hours of fun with these high-quality puzzles.

The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral-thinking against 120 classic cryptic crosswords from The Guardian's extensive archives, with the second book in the new Guardian puzzle book series.

Unleash your creativity with these visually pleasing crosswords.

Discover a wide variety of crossword-style problems designed to both challenge and inspire artistic flow.

Perfect for both the puzzler-on-the-go or someone who simply wants to unwind, Creative Crosswords contains more than 100 crosswords and word puzzles of a variety of difficulty levels.

Inspire your creative side with this essential puzzling partner.

Short but engaging puzzles to fit in around any commute time, be it 5 or 60 minutes. Puzzles include Sudoku, crossword and mazes.

This is the perfect book for those who need to fit their puzzle fix in wherever and whenever they can, and the commute to work is the ideal opportunity. All of the puzzles in Overworked and Underpuzzled: Commuter Puzzles have been designed to fit into busy schedules. The challenges are short and punchy to fit as many in as possible, but with levels ranging from easy to difficult, you can choose your own pace.

Featuring classic conundrum favourites such as Sudoku, Crosswords, Silhouette, Criss Cross, Guess Who, Wordsearches, and many more, there's plenty to liven up your dull morning commute and kick your brain into gear for the day.

Over 200 puzzles from the UK's leading crossword experts.

From the Guardian comes this brand-new collection of quick crosswords, the third volume in the popular series. With a vast range of clues from a wide variety of subjects, these crosswords will sharpen your vocabulary and stretch you mind, but are short enough to be solved during breaks in the day.

Calming Crosswords contains more than 100 crossword puzzles certain to stretch the brainpower of every puzzle-lover. The crosswords have been designed to give your vocabulary and lateral thinking skills a good work-out, but not to be unachievable for the average crossword-puzzler.

This is the ultimate challenge for anyone who works too hard and deserves to let their brain relax into a calming crossword collection.

The UK's most devious cryptic crossword setters present 120 fiercely challenging puzzles.

The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Now you too can test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral thinking against more than 100 classic puzzles specially selected from the Guardian's archives.

128 Billion to 1 is a simple, yet ingenious guide to the way the NCAA Championship works, and explains the factors that best predict the outcome. Paramount among the factors is an accurate assessment of relative team strength to correct misleading polls and erroneous tournament committee selections and seedings.

Using analytics, understandable mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Nemeth exposes the need for a new set of statistical measures to explain the outcomes of basketball games. The new statistics accurately rank each team entering the NCAA Tournament so that fans can make informed picks in their tournament brackets. Weekly accurate rankings can be found at https://nemosnumbers.com/basketball-rankings/.

Most of us don’t play to win in life—we play not to lose. So argues Pasha Esfandiary, who rose from humble, unhappy origins to found a wildly successful company and achieve happiness using techniques he learned playing high-stakes poker.

In this riveting narrative—part memoir, part personal development guide—he shares the secrets and strategies top poker players use to make optimal decisions under intense pressure. In colorful language, Esfandiary demonstrates how poker pros control emotion, read people, leverage money, and weigh risk versus reward. His clear, practical steps for applying these and other techniques to living allow readers to establish and meet goals with the determination of a poker champ. “Lifetime expected value,” the touchstone of top poker players, can be used to make better decisions on a daily basis, building our expertise and intuition.

Learn how to go all-in in every part of life, from business and investing to health and family, with such proven poker strategies. Using compelling examples from his storied poker career, Esfandiary shows readers how to get comfortable with risk, make better decisions, raise the stakes, and play to win.

Do you know what it takes to play the game? At the poker table, just like in the ocean, baitfish get gobbled up by sharks. To help you ascend to the top of the poker food chain, Pick Up Your Poker Game answers all the game's most important questions with over 50 tips and strategies to give you the upper hand. So whether you're a seasoned pro or a bare-bones beginner, this handy, information-packed guide will take your poker game to the next level by helping you discover:

• Winning strategies when you don't have a winning hand
• Bluffing techniques and when to use them
• What players to choose or avoid as your opponent
• How to help determine your opponent's hand
• How to capitalize on your opponent's weaknesses and your strengths

At the poker table, just like in the ocean, baitfish get gobbled up by sharks. To help you ascend to the top of the poker food chain, 52 Things To Pick Up Your Poker Game answers all the game’s most important questions with over 50 tips and strategies to give you the upper hand. So whether you’re a seasoned pro or a bare-bones beginner, this handy, information-packed guide will take your poker game to the next level by helping you discover:

• Bluffing techniques and when to use them—or not use them
• Winning strategies when you don’t have a winning hand
• What players to choose or avoid as your opponent
• How to help determine your opponent’s hand
• How to capitalize on your opponent’s weaknesses and your strengths

This inspirational adult colouring book will take you on a spiritual journey to a world of swirling darvesh, majestic minarets, intricate floral patterns and wondrous birds.

The thought-provoking and uplifting quotes are by the eastern master poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, North America's most popular poet.

Discover and Delight in Old-Fashioned Board Games from the Past

Discover the world of old-fashioned board games from Wall Street Journal acclaimed Adrian Seville, an international expert on the cultural history of printed board games.

The golden age of board games. Explore the world of vintage board games in this lavishly illustrated book that traces their evolution and cultural significance. From geography and moral lessons to just fun, discover the diverse array of old-fashioned board games from a bygone era.

Step back in time. Delve into a bygone era of gaming with this remarkable illustrated board game book. It showcases the exquisite artistry and ingenuity of these games, which covered themes ranging from educational to gambling to simply pure entertainment. Learn all about the moral board games that aimed to instill proper behavior or immerse yourself in the excitement of lottery board games, all while gaining insights into the cultural influences that shaped these games. The Book of Vintage Board Games offers a glimpse into where games started in Europe and the emergence of board games in America.

Inside explore:

• The history of geography board games and more
• Distant lands through war or journey board games
• A treasure trove of beautifully designed boards each reflecting its unique historical context

If you enjoyed board game books such as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Oxford History of Board Games, or Seven Games: A Human History, then you will love Adrian Seville’s The Book of Vintage Board Games.

A Children’s Hidden Pictures Book for Creative Kids

This fun kids’ activity book is essential for all curious children! With a treasure trove of hidden objects, kids will be entertained while learning new skills. Easy Hidden Pictures for Kids ages 3-5 will keep your little one entertained and searching for more!

A world of hidden objects. Kids are naturally curious, so why not feed your child’s curiosity with a treasure hunt in the palm of their hands? This kids’ activity book is a tool that is both fun and educational. Kickstart their love of learning and sharpen their visual skills with an easy-to-use hidden picture book.

Hidden pictures for every occasion. From meeting various animals that live in the rainforest to getting to know their fruits and vegetables, Easy Hidden Pictures for Kids Ages 3-5 is a treasure trove of activities that introduces your child to different shapes and objects with every exciting page turn.

Easy Hidden Pictures for Kids Ages 3-5 offers valuable lessons within every hidden object activity such as:

• Learning about the world around them through different plants, animals, food, and even people!
• Encouraging the development of short-term memory skills
• Building up shape recognition and concentration abilities
• Harnessing their attention to detail

If your child enjoyed books like Pet Puzzles, Disney - Where's Mickey Mouse, or the Jumbo Book of Hidden Pictures, then they will love Easy Hidden Pictures for Kids Ages 3-5.