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Word wheels are a great way to test your vocabulary and whilst a simple puzzle, they are enduringly popular. The set-up of this puzzle type is quite simple: you are given a wheel that contains eight letters around the inside, and one additional letter in the middle of the wheel. You must then find as many words as you can (no proper nouns or plural) from the letters in the grid. Every word you find must use a selection of letters from the outside of the wheel and in addition every word must use the central letter. There is also always one word that uses every letter in the grid - can you find it? If you're good at solving the Countdown conundrum then you will probably be good at finding the nine-letter word in a wordwheel puzzle! A protip from the creators is this: if there are more blanks in the puzzle, it’s likely a more challenging puzzle. They also note that, despite the fact there is some math involved, it’s far more about using logic in arranging numbers than it is about having to do a ton of math. Dot-to-Dot The more codewords you solve the more you get a sense for common patterns that occur, for instance the most common double-letters and so forth, which can be very useful when you see the same number occur in consecutive squares in the grid. Certainly, this list of puzzle books has included an assortment of word puzzle games. But this collection is worth noting, too, as it offers up a wide variety of types of word puzzles beyond the ones that are maybe most familiar or comfortable to the average person. Also, it’s created and edited by David L. Hoyt and the team behind Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Our 2021 book Mixed Puzzle Book for adults contains 100 new and fun puzzles across the following types. We've included brief instructions on each puzzle type below in case there are any you are unfamiliar with:
Maze Madness includes 60 mazes for you to try to master. The book boasts that it not only has traditionally challenging mazes, but it also includes 3D elements to make getting out of the maze even harder. Optical Illusions Calm Puzzles: More than 50 puzzles, including word searches, snakewords, word finders and wordwheels, to promote calm and mindfulness
There are many articles that outline the strategies that you can use to solve sudoku puzzles: the two most common rules are to consider the options that can be placed in an individual square (which numbers from 1-9 can go in this square?) and the second most common rule is 'where can a number go in this row/column/box region?). For instance, if there is only one square in a row that can contain a 3 then it must be placed there, since we know each row/column/box (called regions) must contain 1-9 exactly once each. Remember when you’d sit down with a pencil and follow a series of mazes in your activity book and hope you’d come out the other side? You can relive that magic—or misery—with maze puzzles made for adults. They are, like coloring books and dot-to-dot books for grown ups, made more challenging because of how intricate they are. Have any other best puzzle books or logic puzzle books for adults? Leave ’em in the comments—I’d love to expand my own puzzle playing horizons. There are various tactics that can help you to do this - for a start certain letters are much more popular in English than others, so the number that occurs the most time is usually the E, or possibly the T or A which are other common letters. There are also various other patterns common in English that can help you solve: for instance if you have the letter 'I' two from the end of a word, then it is often the case that the word ends in 'ING' or 'ION'. This collection of over 450 puzzles includes “Mixed-Up Definition, unscramble the letters to reveal the definition of a given word. In Syllabary, use the clues to link syllables in a grid to create words. In Cross’d Word Connections, find the letters in common to help solve a series of four crossword puzzles. Plus Dictionary Race Winder, Make the Connection, Color Word Chains, Prism Word Finder, and other clever riffs on word searches.
But there is a whole other word of puzzle books out there that are perfect for adults. Whether you’re seeking logic puzzle books, visual puzzle books, or word puzzle books, here’s a look at some of the best puzzle books for adults. These are creative, fun, and encourage you to stretch your mind in different directions. Too often we think of puzzle books as throwaway things, but the truth is that they can make your brain sharper, more focused, and, well, they’re just fun. The classic logic puzzle that uses numbers! In sudoku, the rules are compellingly simple although solving the puzzle may not be. Here you must place the numbers 1-9 once in each row, column and 3x3 box. After noting I wasn’t going to include word searches, the first entry in this list is a word search. But this is a word search with a twist. Your challenge is to find the given words within a diagram, but all of those words are missing their vowels in the diagram. The word might be “Cabbage,” but you have to find “Cbbg” in the diagram.I’ve not included crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-word, word search, or Soduku puzzle books here, since they’re well-known and common. I sought out some other types of puzzles to build a list that helps you find something entirely new (or maybe something you once loved and forgot about in your adulthood!). Anna Claybourne’s recent Incredible Optical Illusionsnot only offers up the illusions, but one of the goals of the book is to explain where and how they work. While intended for ages 7 and up and therefore not adult specific, there’s no reason why this doesn’t function perfectly well as an adult puzzle book. Picture Puzzles There are many popular puzzle types, including crosswords, wordsearches, arrow words, codewords, sudoku and kriss kross. Often, you’re given vague details or descriptions and your job is to find the answer. These can be challenging, and they can also be really funny. Chances are that you’ve seen many lateral thinking puzzles throughout your time on social media—some of them make for great memes. The Little Book of Big Word Puzzles In our new series of videos, you can learn about new puzzle types and take part in quizzes. Why not have a watch?
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