Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592230229 ISBN 13: 9781592230228

Publisher: Portable Press, 2003

Synopsis

A book of easy, fun-filled puzzles overflowing with trivia drawn from Uncle John Bathroom Readers. There will be a variety of all of the most popular types of puzzles with 40% easy, 40% medium difficulty, and 20% extra challenging with all puzzles ranked by difficulty. Uncle John’s trademark footers will include extra short puzzles with a question on the left and an answer on the right, along with some fun puzzle trivia footers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Here's a fun twist for puzzle-lovers everywhere: puzzles and quizzes created from the pages of the best-selling Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books. Dozens of brain-stretchers were custom-made and selected by a former editor of GAMES magazine to entertain and inform, while also testing knowledge and skill. The country's best puzzle constructors have created a giant book of favorites: brain-teasers, word searches, crosswords, anagrams, cryptoquizzes, double-crostics, criss-crosses--not to mention pages of trivia quizzes--based on the fascinating facts inside every Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Puzzles and quizzes are ranked according to difficulty and will offer a range from easy to challenging.

About the Author:

Stephanie Spadaccini has been a crossword puzzle constructor for 30 years. Her puzzles have appeared in Modern Maturity, People magazine, The New York Times, Simon & Schuster Crossword books, the Wall Street Journal, InStyle magazine, and a score of other publications. She is well known in the field and counts the top puzzle editors and constructors among her friends—Will Shortz of the New York Times among them. Stephanie was GAMES Magazines' reigning trivia quiz queen for the eight years she worked there. She has written for numerous TV game shows, including Jeopardy!, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Think Twice, College Bowl, and High Rollers. Stephanie started editing crossword puzzles and writing trivia quizzes at GAMES Magazine in the early 1980s. Later, as the magazine's managing editor, she had the typical responsibilities of managing staff; evaluating ideas for features, puzzles, quizzes, and contests; working with authors and agents on acquisition and editing; and making sure that deadlines and time schedules were met. And she wrote and/or edited all feature trivia quizzes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Portable Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1592230229
• ISBN 13: 9781592230228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Spadaccini Stephanie