As well as being a puzzler yourself, you’ve now spent quite a bit of time with other people who spend a lot of time doing puzzles. Generally, based on yourself and your observation of others, what do you think attracts people to puzzles?

Elonka Dunin teamed up with a German writer, Klaus Schmeh, who has a blog about cryptics and ciphers throughout history, and they wrote this book together. It’s a guide of how to break ciphers but you also get a lot of history, everything from World War Two to Roman ciphers. I just love it. One of my favorite puzzles is when you have to spot something that links a bunch of disparate objects or ideas. Finding patterns is the basis of science, it’s the basis of life. Here’s one with pictures, I’ll let you try and figure it out. That’ll be fun. What are these pictures of? Decipher the clues and use your powers of deduction to solve these brilliantly fun and challenging word puzzles. This bumper word search puzzle book includes 3 different levels of word searches – 'easy' for beginner puzzlers, 'hard' for the experts and those wanting an extra challenge, and 'all levels' with a good mix of everything.For puzzle veterans and novices alike, The Penguin Book of Puzzles will test you with riddles and word games, maths challenges, logic conundrums and more. Try your hand at one below. Many people who suffer from anxiety turn to puzzles in times of need. Not only do they distract us for a little while from our problems and help to slow down our breathing rate, but as we mentioned previously, they can help the brain produce dopamine. Have you ever wanted to look at the wizarding world through the eye of an elf? Well of course you probably have. The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life From gentle giants such as the Great Dane to small but spirited pups such as the Yorkshire Terrier, you'll find them all inside!

Alex Bellos actually travelled to Tokyo to meet some of the best puzzle teachers and solvers alive today. Will completing this book add you to that list? Put your skills to the test with this extracted puzzle: Who wrote Only Fools and Horses? What is Rodney Trotter's middle name? What is the name of the actor who played Uncle Albert?As someone who never managed to do more than one side of the Rubik’s Cube, I was quite impressed reading that chapter. 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:

The classic wordsearch puzzle is an enduring, perennial favourite. The wordsearch puzzles in this mixed puzzle book for adults are all themed on a range of topics, and you must simply find the words in each of the grids.Yes. I cast a very wide net of types of puzzles. My first love is crosswords and word puzzles. But there are also logic puzzles, Sudoku, and puzzle types I never even knew about but that are huge, like Japanese puzzle boxes. I was able to find these subcultures where people are obsessed with them, where it’s like a religion. They are as devoted to it as religious people are to their various denominations. What I loved was meeting people like Elonka, or the guy who solves the Rubik’s cube with his feet in less than 20 seconds. There are just so many characters who are delightfully weird and eccentric. It was so fun to explore not only the history of puzzles, but who these people are and why they love puzzles so much. Best of all, this book is 100% recyclable so that you can give your brain a workout in an eco-friendly way! Even without the puzzles, I like the book for the writing alone. I love this line: “My preferred learning style has always been to jump off the cliff first and build a parachute on the way down.” I don’t agree with it. I think it’s a terrible life philosophy. But I love it. It’s so wittily expressed. M is a clever and funny writer. This stylish puzzle book will test your number and problem-solving skills, with over 130 sudoku puzzles ranging from easy to diabolical inside. Inside you will find a variety of themed puzzles on subjects such as cat mascots, cats of mythology, animated cats, and films featuring cats, as well as excerpts from literature and poetry that feature all manner of cats. There are also puzzles which focus on specific members of the cat family, from the well-known big cats such as tigers and lions, to lesser-known felines such as the margay and Geoffroy's cat.