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The puzzler : one man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life

text The puzzler : one man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life

Jacobs, A. J.

Summary

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a 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"--

Contents
Introduction -- Crosswords -- The puzzles of puzzles -- The Rubik's cube -- Anagrams -- Rebuses -- Jigsaws -- Mazes -- Math and logic puzzles -- Ciphers and secret codes -- Visual puzzles -- Sudoku and KenKen -- Chess puzzles (chess problems) -- R... Read more
Format
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Description
xvi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Publisher
Crown 2022
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 793.73 JAC in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving
Peninsula Community Library 793.73 JAC in Adult Available

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