Word Searches and More

Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.

From the Author of the I Didn’t Know That SeriesComes the Latest New Volume Exploring the Biblical Roots of Everyday Phrases and ExpressionsTracing everyday expressions with roots in holy scripture, I Didn’t Know That Comes from the Bible covers everything from Land o’ Goshen to Apple of My Eye ... Blind Leading the Blind to Going the Extra Mile, the latest edition in the I Didn’t Know That series, is dedicated to scripture, religion, and all things biblical, with a plethora of insights into commonly cited expressions coming straight from the Bible.Expressions include: Old as Methuselah Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child Bringing down the House Nothing But Skin and Bones Feet of Clay

If words are your passion, these puzzles-all focusing on great quotations-will be your obsession! Find the solutions and you'll uncover little nuggets of wisdom from the likes of H.G. Wells, Mae West,, Harry S. Truman, Germaine Greer, and more. Try On the Square, where each puzzle has 16 words arranged outside a square of blanks. Your job is to use those words to fill in all the blanks until they're in the right order. Each word appears in the row or column it is next to, on top of, or below. In Schooner Spool you have to switch consonants around to recover the original citation. For example: I hate television. I state it as much as peanuts. But I can't hop eating peanuts--Orson WellesCan you figure out what Welles really said?They're so challenging, and so much fun, you'll never want to put down your pencil. (Or pen, if you're really confident!)

Over 400 pages offer many hours of fun and challenging diversion for the person who just can’t get enough words. Over 190 entertaining puzzles are included.

A bargain edition of lexical bafflers for word gamesters and logomaniacs, this new Mammoth Book offers every conceivable diversion and test for the serious puzzle-master and crossword addict alike--an inexhaustible variety of challenges for word power and verbal skills.

Lovers of Scrabble® and other language-based games will boost their chances to win with these huge, incredibly thorough word lists. Study them to increase your vocabulary, especially of words with hard-to-use “J,” “Q,” “X,” and “Z,” to understand the different letter combinations that frequently come up, and to get more “hooks,” those letters that can extend words already on the board for extra points. There’s a “cheat sheet” that includes 2 and 3 letter words and their hooks, vowel dumps, and more. Load up on vowel-heavy words, including ones with multiple “I”s and “U”s. Find out which short words don’t take S endings, or which finish in a surprise “S.” Get the best of the bingos, as well as alphagrams. The introduction comes from World Scrabble® Champion Brian Cappelletto.