Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles

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Will Shortz, NPR's Puzzlemaster, has been challenging and entertaining puzzle fans for years. Now he starts a new series of word games and brainteaser books: Will Shortz's Mind Games. The first volume, Alphabet Riddles, contains 100 of his popular initial puzzles where every answer is a familiar two-word phrase having the same pair of initials. Features:- 100 all-new Alphabet Riddles- Convenient portable format

Reviews

"A puzzling global phenomenon" --The Economist

"The biggest craze to hit The Times since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935." --The Times of London

"England's most addictive newspaper puzzle." --New York magazine

"The latest craze in games" --BBC News

"Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family--think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it!" --The Times of London

"Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s." --The Daily Telegraph

"Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids." --Associated Press

"Forget crosswords." --The Christian Science Monitor

Author Bio

Will Shortz has been Crossword Editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the Puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has published hundreds of books of sudoku and crossword puzzles, and he recently starred in the hit documentary Wordplay. Will can be reached at www.crosswordtournament.com.