Perplexing Pencil Puzzles

By George Bredehorn

Grab a pencil, pull on your thinking cap and get ready to solve some of the most baffling brain-benders ever. There are puzzles that ask you to fill in blanks, unscramble words, and decipher clues. Try "split decisions" where the only clues are letter pairs, and each answer consists of two words that share certain letters. In "ultimate crossword" puzzles, you need to crack a code to replace numbers with letters. Test your anagram skills with "anagram loops," and see if you can find the five "big words a-hiding" in a grid. "Latticework" puzzles feature words that interlock and fit a given category, and "fill-in station" puzzles ask you to complete a grid with nine given letters so that three-letter words are formed in all places indicated. With 17 types of puzzles and hundreds of challenges, you'll be happily occupied for hours of solving fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402707215
• ISBN13: 9781402707216
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Best Word Puzzle Book Ever.

This is not just another book of jumbles and word searches and x-word puzzles. The word in the title 'Perplexing' really describes this book. The puzzles are of different types, from my favorite type called 'Split Decision' where an x-word-like maze is presented showing 2 or 3 common letters shared by two words and the object of the puzzle is to determine the missing letters. There are 10 other types of word puzzles, all challenging and entertaining. I am very sorry to have just discovered that this is the only volume of its type currently in print. I hope MENSA and the author, George Bredhorn, publish another volume. A delightful pasttime.