Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Puzzlewright
Keywords: mensa, acrostics, book
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 140275258X
ISBN-13: 9781402752582

Another heaping helping of fun for acrostics fans! Let the solving begin. Michael Ashley, a regular contributor to Games magazine and one of America’s best-known crosticians, has devised another 110 devious acrostics to delight puzzle-doers. They’re entertaining and challenging, mixing the fun of crosswords with a bit of code-breaking. Start by solving the clues, such as “Scottish philosopher of the 18th century (2 wds.).” The answer’s David Hume; write it on the numbered blanks. Then, transfer each letter to the grid, putting it in the correspondingly numbered square. The result, wh

Author: Charles Timmerman
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: everything, acrostics, sports, hobbies, anagrams, book, word, games, challenge, scramblers
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1593373120
ISBN-13: 9781593373122

If mind benders and brain teasers in the Sunday paper get your noggin going, then grab a pencil and start puzzling with The Everything Word Games Challenge Book! Packed with more than 700 assorted word games, you’ll find everything from anagrams and acrostics to cryptograms and chronograms-all organized into puzzles and riddles meant to sharpen your thinking skills and increase your word power. With these games, you can: Code and decode secret messages with phone numbers Try your hand at word ladders, the most popular word game invented by Alice in Wonderland author and mathemati

Authors:The New York Times, Will Shortz,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: new, times, york, acrostics, pages, challenging, puzzles, acrostic, volume
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 031230949X
ISBN-13: 9780312309497

Featuring quotations from Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many more, this collection of fifty of the Times’s famous, literary Sunday acrostics marks their first appearance in book form.