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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.

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 All of your logical reasoning will be required to solve these previously unpublished puzzles, specially designed to increase in difficulty as the book progresses.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 These previously unpublished puzzles increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so will test everyone from a sudoku novice to a seasoned expert.

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.

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.

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!

Containing more than 100 enigmas, riddles and conundrums, all taking inspiration from their extraordinary stories and vivid worlds, explore new galaxies and new technologies while solving challenges all written in the distinctive and brilliant styles of these five stars of science fiction.

Enter the genre-defining worlds created by five masters of speculative fiction in The Science Fiction Puzzle Book. Featuring the prolific works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein and Ursula K. Le Guin, become part of their futuristic, dystopian and world-building adventures with this series of enigmatic puzzles.

'A knotty puzzle may hold up a scientist for a century'
– Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn.

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.

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.

Dive into the Spot It! Puzzle Book, where all of your favourite Spot It! icons have combined to create more than 140 creative puzzles inspired by the award-winning game.

Everyone who loves Spot It! will enjoy these colorful challenges, with puzzles ranging from Spot the Difference and Mazes, to Odd One Out and cartoon Sudoku. There are even a series of head-to-head games for you to solve while racing against your friends.