Mind Games

100 Alphabet Riddles

By: Will Shortz

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Paperback | 5 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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: "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. For example, using the initials S & B: *What's kicked at the World Cup SOCCER BALL]*Portable advertising sign SANDWICH BOARD]*Shade of hair that's reddish yellow STRAWBERRY BLOND]*God SUPREME BEING] Features:
- 100 all-new Alphabet Riddles
- Created by legendary "New York Times" crossword editor Will Shortz""
- Convenient portable format

Industry 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

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