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An obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions-both original as well as must-do classics. Jam-packed on the page and illustrated throughout in full-color, with a visual for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is like a call to action.

One of the most popular features of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday broadcasts have been the seven minutes of puzzling with puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Shortz, former editor of Games magazine and now crossword editor for the New York Times, has compiled 200 of the show's best word games into this collection.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know, But Didn't Know Where to Look is an extraordinary compendium of fascinating facts, interesting information and tantalizing trivia Hundreds of questions on a variety of topics--art, business, discoveries, films, literature, mathematics, music, mythology, sports, war, and lots of others; things you knew, didn't know (and thought you knew but didn't!)

Like a cross between a linguistic spy and a lexicographic Olympic athlete, journalist Stefan Fatsis gave himself a year to penetrate the highest echelons of international Scrabble competition. Word Freak is the account of his journey. It's a wacky grab bag of travelogue, history, party journal, and psychological study of the misfits and goofballs whose lives are measured out in Scrabble tiles.

The longer you look, the more you get fooled. That's the fun of optical illusion puzzles. Coins rearrange themselves. Pictures disappear and reappear. Numbers add up to the same sum even when you remove some of them. Study a landscape and find 164 hidden objects. Stare into a 3-D picture until a ball is caught. See which knots won't really tie anything. Trace some mazes with only one right path, and one with over 600. 4-color illustration