Author: Charles Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734048391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from education and humor to history and sports. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Dave Barry, Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Garfield, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "It Knocks Me Out," "My Retirement," "Prove Me Wrong," "Successfully Aging," and "They Always Fell."
Quote Acrostic Favorites
Author: Charles Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734048391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from education and humor to history and sports. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Dave Barry, Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Garfield, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "It Knocks Me Out," "My Retirement," "Prove Me Wrong," "Successfully Aging," and "They Always Fell."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734048391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from education and humor to history and sports. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Dave Barry, Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Garfield, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "It Knocks Me Out," "My Retirement," "Prove Me Wrong," "Successfully Aging," and "They Always Fell."
Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles
Author: Puzzle Baron
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1615640320
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1615640320
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!
Exceptional Acrostics to Keep You Sharp
Author: Charles Preston
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402755293
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A book of fifty smart and diverting acrostics reveal wise and whimsical sayings about lessons learned along the road of life or the value of experience.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402755293
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A book of fifty smart and diverting acrostics reveal wise and whimsical sayings about lessons learned along the road of life or the value of experience.
Astounding Acrostic Puzzles
Author: Anne Brown
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402725418
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402725418
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.
Quote Acrostic
Author: Charles Preston
Publisher: Perigee Trade
ISBN: 9780399528996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new collection of brain-teasing quote acrostics.
Publisher: Perigee Trade
ISBN: 9780399528996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new collection of brain-teasing quote acrostics.
The New York Times Acrostic Puzzles Volume 11
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312641397
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
50 Quotation puzzles from the pages of The New York Times Edited by Emily Cox and Harry Rathvon New York Times puzzles are America's favorite! Whether your tastes are literary or lowbrow, this latest installment of fifty of the Sunday Times' famous acrostic puzzles features quotations ranging from Herman Melville to Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So sharpen your pencil, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for some acrostic fun!
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312641397
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
50 Quotation puzzles from the pages of The New York Times Edited by Emily Cox and Harry Rathvon New York Times puzzles are America's favorite! Whether your tastes are literary or lowbrow, this latest installment of fifty of the Sunday Times' famous acrostic puzzles features quotations ranging from Herman Melville to Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So sharpen your pencil, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for some acrostic fun!
Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles
Author: Puzzle Baron
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 146545912X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Spend hours solving over 400 various puzzles in the Puzzle Baron's largest offering yet! The Puzzle Baron is at it again—creating puzzles his puzzle followers crave. Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles provides puzzlers hours of entertainment with 400 assorted popular puzzles, including logic puzzles, crosswords, cryptograms, acrostics, word search puzzles, and more! Each puzzle type includes statistics—such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of puzzlers who can complete the puzzle—to bring out the competitor in puzzlers and better inform them on how easy/difficult each puzzle is to do. So grab your pencil and see how you stack up to the competiton!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 146545912X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Spend hours solving over 400 various puzzles in the Puzzle Baron's largest offering yet! The Puzzle Baron is at it again—creating puzzles his puzzle followers crave. Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles provides puzzlers hours of entertainment with 400 assorted popular puzzles, including logic puzzles, crosswords, cryptograms, acrostics, word search puzzles, and more! Each puzzle type includes statistics—such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of puzzlers who can complete the puzzle—to bring out the competitor in puzzlers and better inform them on how easy/difficult each puzzle is to do. So grab your pencil and see how you stack up to the competiton!
Ana and Adam Build an Acrostic
Author: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque
Publisher: Norwood House Press
ISBN: 1603572627
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Ana and Adam learn concepts related to writing acrostics as they read and write coded messages. This series can get young writers writing their own poems! Join in on the adventure as friends learn the basics of writing poetry and the use of rhyme, meter, alliteration, and other tools to write their own poems. Each book in the series covers a different type of poem. From limericks to acrostics, you can follow the story that shows the steps needed to create your new poem. Activities in the back of the book provide additional information and writing practice.
Publisher: Norwood House Press
ISBN: 1603572627
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Ana and Adam learn concepts related to writing acrostics as they read and write coded messages. This series can get young writers writing their own poems! Join in on the adventure as friends learn the basics of writing poetry and the use of rhyme, meter, alliteration, and other tools to write their own poems. Each book in the series covers a different type of poem. From limericks to acrostics, you can follow the story that shows the steps needed to create your new poem. Activities in the back of the book provide additional information and writing practice.
Bible Acrostics
Author: Lisa Harris
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781602603516
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the first time ever, Barbour Publishing offers an entire collection of Bible acrostics-101 brand-new puzzles! Drawn from the breadth and width of the King James Version, these puzzles each feature coded scripture to be solved after unscrambling key words. Covering the people, places, things, and great ideas of scripture, Bible Acrostics is both entertaining and educational, sharing important Bible truths in an enjoyable puzzle package. It's priced right for summertime fun at only $4.97.
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781602603516
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the first time ever, Barbour Publishing offers an entire collection of Bible acrostics-101 brand-new puzzles! Drawn from the breadth and width of the King James Version, these puzzles each feature coded scripture to be solved after unscrambling key words. Covering the people, places, things, and great ideas of scripture, Bible Acrostics is both entertaining and educational, sharing important Bible truths in an enjoyable puzzle package. It's priced right for summertime fun at only $4.97.
Fantastic Eclectic Acrostics
Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402775727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With their fun trivia-style clues plus notable quotes, acrostics have always been a popular and unique mental diversion. Now the King of Acrostics, Michael Ashley, has created a terrific collection of 100 puzzles to devour, filled with citations both funny and profound. As an added feature, the first letters of the trivia answers spell out the quote's author and source. Fantastic Eclectic Acrostics is sure to keep solvers' pencils sharp…and their minds even sharper.
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402775727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With their fun trivia-style clues plus notable quotes, acrostics have always been a popular and unique mental diversion. Now the King of Acrostics, Michael Ashley, has created a terrific collection of 100 puzzles to devour, filled with citations both funny and profound. As an added feature, the first letters of the trivia answers spell out the quote's author and source. Fantastic Eclectic Acrostics is sure to keep solvers' pencils sharp…and their minds even sharper.