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Covers the most popular card games, including: Whist, Solo, Napoleon, Clobbiosh, Belot, Black Maria, Piquet, Five Hundred, Poker, Brag, Cassino, Rummy, Kaluki, Gin Rummy, Canasta, Cribbage and Pontoon.

Chambers Card Games for Families explains how to play more than 50 family card games. Ranging from slap-jack and snap to patience and pontoon, the games are highly entertaining as well as quick and easy to learn. The book includes simple games that children can play on their own, as well as more intricate games for the whole family, and is ideal for players of any age and experience. With clear descriptions, helpful illustrations and useful tips, Chambers Card Games for Families is the essential companion for hours of family fun.

If you're gonna break the rules, break 'em good. Scrabble(t) Trickster is Scrabble's unruly kid brother, newly released on the public and already causing quite a stir. It's as much a test of cunning as of lexicographical acrobatics. You are allowed to break the traditional Scrabble rules and, if you want to win, you will have to break them better than anyone else. Collins Little Book of Scrabble(t) Trickster contains all the sneaky hints you need to help you on your crooked way. It explains how to get the most out of each trick c... read more

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This Pocket Posh edition wraps 100 word search puzzles in an irresistible, pretty package.

The Puzzle Society introduces this word roundup book featuring mind-boggling puzzles and elegant cover treatment with foil, and tactile design.

Contains 125 puzzles. Code-Cracker is compiled by Simon Shuker, a Wellington, New Zealand resident, and is a hugely popular addictive puzzle enjoyed in many daily newspapers throughout New Zealand. The puzzles provide a sometimes tough but enjoyable challenge with great solver satisfaction. The puzzle originated when Britain's second-largest newspaper the Daily Mail (daily circulation 2.4 million) wanted to establish a new puzzle. The newspaper's puzzle editors knew of Simon Shuker's Take5 puzzle, a popular feature in the New Zeala... read more

Following the success of the first Code-Cracker book (it was so popular it reached the national Top Ten bestseller lists in 2004), I've had many requests for another volume - so here it is: Code-Cracker Volume Two with another 125 puzzles to keep you entertained over the warm summer months. Have fun! Try a couple of interactive Code-Cracker samples

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Another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles in the sixth volume of the puzzle series that is enjoyed daily in newspapers from Whangarei to Invercargill, including the Otago Daily Times, Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald.

Another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles in the fifth volume of the puzzle series that is enjoyed daily in newspapers from Whangarei to Invercargill, including the Otago Daily Times, Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald.

Volume Eight of New Zealand's most popular word puzzle returns with another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles to solve. Enjoyed daily in newspapers from Whangarei to Invercargill, including the Otago Daily Times, Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald, Simon Shuker's Code-Cracker has a legion of devoted fans.

Another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles in the seventh volume of the puzzle series that is enjoyed daily in newspapers from Whangarei to Invercargill, including the Otago Daily Times, Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald.

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Crossword addicts are always in search of a new and better tool to boost their solving skills--and the answer's not yet another dictionary. This handbook is something a lot more valuable: a comprehensive compilation of "cross weirds." These are the words we don't often hear in general conversation, but they do tend to pop up in crosswords frequently, either because they use the most common letters of the alphabet or are featured in some of the most popular subjects. So it's fantastically helpful when you need to figure out who star... read more

This supremely challenging cryptic collection contains 50 jumbo-sized puzzles, conceived to really challenge your word skills. Selected by The Times' Crossword Editor, Richard Browne, this original collection will challenge even the most experienced crossword buff. The ultimate and only jumbo cryptic crosswords available, these puzzles will really push you to go that extra step. With unique grids of 23 x 23 squares (in comparison to the standard 15 x 15 grid), they will require serious word power and brain bending to complete. T... read more