Word Searches and More

Over 400 pages of word-search puzzles keep readers entertained for hours.

Offering hours of word challenges, this all-new collection from best-selling puzzle master Richard Manchester will delight fans with seventy-five brain teasers.

What do you call defamation about the Holy Book? Hint: two words, five letters each, and they rhyme. It's Bible libel, of course! What happened when somebody threw a globe? Hint: two words, one with six letters, the other five. Answer: Hurled world. And what do you call a mollusk's water barriers? How about snail pail? Hey, this is a snap, right? Then what do you call a very cold horse stable? (Two words, one with seven letters, one with six.) Sorry, you've got to figure it out yourself. Enjoy dozens of rhyme puzzles, and an even larger selection of crosswords, including: a four-letter word for a disaster forecaster; a four-letter word for what Okeechobee is; a nine-letter word for a place whose capital is Wellington; and a 10-letter word for something that sank on April 14, 1912. The answers are in any dictionary or thesaurus. Also, just to show you what a good sport the Little Giant is, he put them in the back of the book (randomly placed, of course, so you can't sneak a peek at the next one!). 512 pages (all in 2-color), 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Puzzle master Richard Manchester provides plenty of mind-teasing word play in this newest collection in his popular puzzle book series. In cars, trains, or on planes, wordhounds of every age will enjoy increasing their vocabulary and improving their word skills with these challenging and inventive seek-a-word puzzles .

One of the most challenging and popular collections of word games ever put together is finally back in print. Anyone who loves to decipher, make up, or play with words will love this compilation of alphabits, word mazes, threezies, cryptograms, picture quizzes, crosswords, and countless o ther classic word games. The Mammoth Book of Crossword Puzzles is also available. (Bristol Books)

At a handy size of less than 100 pages, The 2nd New Grab a Pencil Book of Word Games provides a gold mine of wordplay. This edition includes a dizzying variety of word-based puzzles, including mazes, spiralgrams, laddergrams, kriss kross, anacrostics, logic, crosswords, figgerits, cryptoquizzes, quotation puzzles, puns and anagrams, word arithmetic, and cryptograms. Unmatched by any puzzle book on the market, this one will tease the brain while it entertains.