Word Searches and More

1001 Word Rebuses is a collection of puzzles based on an old theme: the word rebus. A word rebus is a mixture of text and graphics that contains a hidden word, phrase, or idiom. Word rebuses have been popular for hundreds of years and a TV game show was even based on them. This book contains enough rebuses to keep young and old entertained for many hours.

Grab a pencil, get started, and soon you'll be exercising your brain (and, with a little luck, a few other muscles, too). While you're waiting for nature to take its course, try some clueless crosswords, where you fill in the blanks to form eight seven-letter words. Or, do double exposures, where you first figure out the six-letter words that read from top to bottom in the columns; that reveals only half the letters, so then you'll have to take one from the top squares of each column and transfer it to the blank above to reveal a phrase. Also fill-in stations, split decisions, two-by-twos, and lots more like this one:

As kids solve these simple puzzles, they'll learn to recognize the basic sound and letter combinations that make up our language - setting the stage for speaking and reading success - what a great way to make phonics (and learning) fun! Each illustrated and inviting word search contains 10 words.

Time flies when you're having fun--and The Everything Puzzles for Commuters Book makes every trip more fun! You'll kiss boring times goodbye as you tackle the 200-plus engaging games in this puzzle lover's dream collection, including: Sudoku Mazes Crosswords Word Search With these crafty, creative puzzles, you'll commute with pleasure, wherever you're headed. Whether you're on a 15-minute bus ride to work or a cross-country plane trip to paradise, you won't want to leave home without this book!

Show off how much you know about sports, music, famous people, TV shows, and dozens of other subjects. Try all 56 puzzles and find the hidden words that are written left to right, right to left, up, down, and diagonally. Test your wits on the wide worlds of: * things connected with a shopping mall, and stuff you use at school * fun at camp, and features of Disney World * words with the letter X * the Simpsons, horror movies, and other entertainment features * terms from the Internet, chemistry, outer space, and dinosaurs * ingredients on a pizza And lots more. Often the puzzles show you the whole word, but sometimes letters are left out to make it harder. Sometimes you're told the theme, but other times it's a secret. You get puzzles with words that rhyme, and even one on "nothing," where the answers could be the word nothing, or a zero, or the letter O. The final puzzle: words for goodbye. Jokes and little-known facts come with each puzzle. And oh yes, so do the answers. 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

It’ll ____ like hotcakes! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crossword Puzzles and Word Games is designed for every puzzler, from novice to expert. Nationally known expert Matt Gaffney has crafted 150 crossword puzzles and exercises, not only to entertain readers, but also to improve their skills. With his unique feature of annotated solved grids that explain the process of how to solve the clues and complete the puzzle, it is destined to become a classic.-More than 150 crossword puzzles, exercises, and other word games-Unique feature of annotated solutions to increase the reader’s solving power-Comprehensive word lists-Nationally published crossword puzzle expert

"You can be sitting in the train working a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even in the train. It's something different, something removed from the ordinary." --Maki Kaji, The Japanese TimesThree varieties of word puzzles meet for true wordsmiths: WHATZIT?, a word phrase game; Up and Down Words, a mix-and-match world clue game; and QuickCross, a mini crossword puzzle.

The smartest, most engaging word search calendar available. With a daily offering from the company whose puzzles have built up both a passionate and a loyal following over 35 years, the Wonderword Calendar keeps word search lovers entertained all year long. Every themed puzzle, hand-created by David Ouellet, effortlessly balances challenge with solvability and is packed with character and fun. And each is actually a puzzle within a puzzle: After you've found all the words, combine the unused letters in the grid to find the "wonder word" solution.

This book is intended to serve as a basic educational resource for those interested in improving their use and mastery of the Hawaiian language. Students of all ages and native speakers of Hawaiian will find the forty crossword puzzles and eight word search puzzles an entertaining and challenging way to practice their Hawaiian language vocabulary and word usage. The author includes an innovative "how to" section for those who wish to create their own crossword puzzles. The section includes several blank puzzle forms. The book's final section is a Hawaiian language crossword puzzle dictionary for use in creating crossword puzzles. The dictionary consists of over 12,000 words from Pukui/Elbert arranged alphabetically by word size.