Download or read book Oxford Puzzle Solver written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Essential Guide for Puzzle Solvers written by and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game players in search of a difficult answer, a clue, or a helpful hint to master crossword puzzles can turn to this guide for the answers--arranged by number of letters--in a wide range of categories, from science and technology to literature and the arts. Listed are rhyming pairs, double meanings, palindromes, acronyms, and more.
Download or read book Oxford Crossword Dictionary written by Catherine Soanes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving as a reference for people who enjoy solving crosswords, this title contains over 100,000 words and phrases arranged alphabetically and by word length.
Download or read book Oxford Puzzle Solver written by Catherine Soanes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 500 lists that cover a variety of subjects, this title offers lists for biographical names (artists and actors, doctors and scientists), geographical data (countries, US states, rivers, and mountains), and thematic lists. It is useful for those puzzle sleuths working on crosswords or other word games.
Download or read book Taking Sudoku Seriously written by Jason Rosenhouse and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Sudoku as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics, a puzzle book explores the connections between Sudoku, graph theory and polynomials, and considers Sudoku extremes, with plenty of fun puzzles for the reader to solve.
Download or read book The Oxford Crossword Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Puzzler written by A.J. Jacobs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers, and a hidden, super-challenging but solvable puzzle—The Puzzler will open readers’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times.
Download or read book Oxford Crosswords written by Alex Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my Oxford book of angry puzzles. If you like puzzles big and small, easy and challenging. This is a delightful crossword book on the main things and people based around Oxford. Created in a large and easy-to-read size, this collection of over 20 puzzles is both challenging and addictive. Educating and enjoyable in equal measure and ideal for all people keen to learn more about Oxford. OVER 20 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy!TRAVEL COMPANION: Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, taking the bus, riding the train or relaxing on vacation in Oxford this word search puzzle book can go with you.BRAIN TRAINING: Learn new facts on Oxford while completing your word search puzzles. Learn about Colin Dexter, Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, Christ Church and other facts about Oxford's long history, MAKES A GREAT GIFT: For the novice to expert, this word search book makes a great gift!
Download or read book Can You Solve My Problems written by Alex Bellos and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzle lovers, rejoice! Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world’s best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then—with just a dash of high school math—you’ll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!) The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzle—from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!
Download or read book Puzzle Solver written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puzzle Solver s Encyclopedia written by William Sunners and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Algorithmic Puzzles written by Anany Levitin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithmic puzzles are puzzles involving well-defined procedures for solving problems. This book will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to algorithmic puzzles that will develop the reader's algorithmic thinking. The first part of this book is a tutorial on algorithm design strategies and analysis techniques. Algorithm design strategies — exhaustive search, backtracking, divide-and-conquer and a few others — are general approaches to designing step-by-step instructions for solving problems. Analysis techniques are methods for investigating such procedures to answer questions about the ultimate result of the procedure or how many steps are executed before the procedure stops. The discussion is an elementary level, with puzzle examples, and requires neither programming nor mathematics beyond a secondary school level. Thus, the tutorial provides a gentle and entertaining introduction to main ideas in high-level algorithmic problem solving. The second and main part of the book contains 150 puzzles, from centuries-old classics to newcomers often asked during job interviews at computing, engineering, and financial companies. The puzzles are divided into three groups by their difficulty levels. The first fifty puzzles in the Easier Puzzles section require only middle school mathematics. The sixty puzzle of average difficulty and forty harder puzzles require just high school mathematics plus a few topics such as binary numbers and simple recurrences, which are reviewed in the tutorial. All the puzzles are provided with hints, detailed solutions, and brief comments. The comments deal with the puzzle origins and design or analysis techniques used in the solution. The book should be of interest to puzzle lovers, students and teachers of algorithm courses, and persons expecting to be given puzzles during job interviews.
Download or read book Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers written by Alex Bellos and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?
Download or read book Algorithmic Puzzles written by Anany Levitin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many think of algorithms as specific to computer science, at its core algorithmic thinking is defined by the use of analytical logic to solve problems. This logic extends far beyond the realm of computer science and into the wide and entertaining world of puzzles. In Algorithmic Puzzles, Anany and Maria Levitin use many classic brainteasers as well as newer examples from job interviews with major corporations to show readers how to apply analytical thinking to solve puzzles requiring well-defined procedures. The book's unique collection of puzzles is supplemented with carefully developed tutorials on algorithm design strategies and analysis techniques intended to walk the reader step-by-step through the various approaches to algorithmic problem solving. Mastery of these strategies--exhaustive search, backtracking, and divide-and-conquer, among others--will aid the reader in solving not only the puzzles contained in this book, but also others encountered in interviews, puzzle collections, and throughout everyday life. Each of the 150 puzzles contains hints and solutions, along with commentary on the puzzle's origins and solution methods. The only book of its kind, Algorithmic Puzzles houses puzzles for all skill levels. Readers with only middle school mathematics will develop their algorithmic problem-solving skills through puzzles at the elementary level, while seasoned puzzle solvers will enjoy the challenge of thinking through more difficult puzzles.
Download or read book Puzzle Solver written by Marian Makins and published by Collins. This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket reference book gives over 54,000 solution words, specially chosen to cover the subject areas that are met with most frequently in puzzles and crosswords.
Download or read book The Oxford Paperback Crossword Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Crossword Dictionary, now in paperback, is the essential reference for all word game enthusiasts. The dictionary is arranged in three sections, and is designed to provide all of the different types of information you might need when tackling difficult clues in a puzzle. The first section contains a master list of 250,000 words, extracted from the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Entries are alphabetically arranged according to length ofword, starting with a list of two-letter words, finishing with a list of fifteen-letter words and phrases. The second section consists of lists of biographical and proper names. The biographical names (5,000 in total) are arranged in categories, e.g. sports, arts, science, history, religion etc and sorted alphabetically by surname within each category. Also included in this section are 50 pages of geographical entries, covering countries of the world, states in the US, regions of S. Africa, rivers of the world, etc. The third section contains thematic lists on a wide variety of subjects, e.g. animals, plants, literature, music, art, religion, science, food and drink.
Download or read book The Crossword Century written by Alan Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist and word aficionado salutes the 100-year history and pleasures of crossword puzzles Since its debut in The New York World on December 21, 1913, the crossword puzzle has enjoyed a rich and surprisingly lively existence. Alan Connor, a comic writer known for his exploration of all things crossword in The Guardian, covers every twist and turn: from the 1920s, when crosswords were considered a menace to productive society; to World War II, when they were used to recruit code breakers; to their starring role in a 2008 episode of The Simpsons. He also profiles the colorful characters who make up the interesting and bizarre subculture of crossword constructors and competitive solvers, including Will Shortz, the iconic New York Times puzzle editor who created a crafty crossword that appeared to predict the outcome of a presidential election, and the legions of competitive puzzle solvers who descend on a Connecticut hotel each year in an attempt to be crowned the American puzzle-solving champion. At a time when the printed word is in decline, Connor marvels at the crossword’s seamless transition onto Kindles and iPads, keeping the puzzle one of America’s favorite pastimes. He also explores the way the human brain processes crosswords versus computers that are largely stumped by clues that require wordplay or a simple grasp of humor. A fascinating examination of our most beloved linguistic amusement—and filled with tantalizing crosswords and clues embedded in the text—The Crossword Century is sure to attract the attention of the readers who made Word Freak and Just My Type bestsellers.
