The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book! - Softcover

Shenk, Mike; Goldstein, Amy; Leighton, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761143866 ISBN 13: 9780761143864

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

It’s win-win for the whole family: Kids love puzzles—and parents love their kids to love puzzles. Now from Puzzability—the premier puzzle-writing company whose mind-benders have appeared regularly in The New York Times and Disney Adventures, and repeatedly in The New Yorker and Martha Stewart Kids—comes a rich, original, and entertaining category-killer of a book with over 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject.

Fully illustrated in color, here is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more. With a full range of difficulty, but all totally solvable, the puzzles are not meant to be tests. In fact they’re engaging and humorous, as fun to work on as they are satisfying to solve. In Gray Matter, readers first solve a short crossword, then use the letters in the puzzle to crack a riddle. Hot Lines involves matching kids to their clothing—based on tan lines. Flea Circuit is an unusual maze that you find your way out of by jumping around the page like a flea. A scavenger hunt runs through the book—solve every puzzle to amass the clues and earn the bound-in certificate of achievement. (Yes, the honor system applies.)

About this title

From the Back Cover:

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING RIDDLES AND THE QUESTS OF SIR GLANCE-A-LOT

The Hole Story. Rhyme Wave. Jokers Wild. Bat Attitude. Reverse Gear . . . in all, an outrageously clever, colorful bonanza of more than 250 mind-teasing mazes, word games, visual puzzles, and much more. · Wind your way through the twisted cemetery gates in Dead End. · Match sunburned kids to their beach gear by examining their Hot Lines. · In It’s Astro-Logical, figure out which astronaut is asleep on the job. · Decipher the words that are shimmering underwater to get All Wet. · There are even puzzles within puzzles, like Crunch Time: rearrange every letter in the solved crossword to get the answer to the riddle.

About the Author:

Puzzability was founded in 1996 by Robert Leighton (a New Yorker cartoonist), Mike Shenk, and Amy Goldstein, who have a combined 60 years of experience in the puzzle business. Puzzability is a puzzle-writing company that creates puzzles for Web sites, major newspapers and magazines, ads and packaging, game shows, and other media. Puzzability was founded in 1966 by Robert Leighton (a New Yorker cartoonist), Mike Shenk, and Amy Goldstein, who have a combined 60 years of experience in the puzzle business. Puzzability is a puzzle-writing company that creates puzzles for Web sites, major newspapers and magazines, ads and packaging, game shows, and other media. The puzzle writing company! Puzzability was founded in 1966 by Robert Leighton (a New Yorker cartoonist), Mike Shenk, and Amy Goldstein, who have a combined 60 years of experience in the puzzle business. Puzzability is a puzzle-writing company that creates puzzles for Web sites, major newspapers and magazines, ads and packaging, game shows, and other media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0761143866
• ISBN 13: 9780761143864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194