Penguin Books Australia

Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year fr Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)

Parlour Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games: push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some mental stimulation, silliness and laughter, joy and connection back into your living room.

Parlour Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games. Its authors want you to push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some mental stimulation, silliness and laughter, joy and connection back into your living room.

People love puzzles and games. It's not a recent phenomenon, although lately an intense and growing interest in both Sudoku and poker has emerged. Now picture puzzles are hot, and who better to put out a fun book of picture puzzles than the Complete Idiot's Guide series.

100 brand new puzzles to tease the sharpest eyes.

In Picture Puzzles Volume 2 -

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles Volume 2

Enagage your mind with the challenge of hundreds of Sudoku puzzles.

The Complete Idiot's Guide ® to More Word Search Puzzles offers puzzlers of all ages the perfect follow-up to our first word search book. Like The Complete Idiot's Guide ® to Word Search Puzzles , this book contains over 300 puzzles on a variety of themes, many new. Each puzzle is 20 letters by 20 letters with a minimum of 25 words to discover, for hours of fun. 

The way players begin a game of chess often dictates the outcome, which explains why hundreds of websites, computer programs, and even a five-volume book collection called The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings are all devoted to categorizing the thousands of possible moves with which a chess game can be opened. But sorting through all that information is daunting, not to mention time-consuming, especially...

No Limit Texas Hold'em, as the name suggests, has no limits on the amount or frequency that one can bet, leading to bigger...

Entirely new section of Ewa's show-stopping trick shots that anyone can do Scores of new Ewa's Billiard Bits and Cue Tips-two of the most popular aspects of the book Dozens of...

DON'T BE A SLAVE TO SOPHOPHOBIA!
LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY!

SOPHOPHOBIA IS THE FEAR OF LEARNING

LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY

Simple, low-cost, homemade games made from everyday household items—from the author of Make These Toys .

Playing games is the perfect antidote for boredom when kids are tired of their toys—that's where Play These Games comes in. This collection presents homemade activities for kids and grown-ups to create and play together, from Go Fish cards made using family photos to a pinball machine...

Where were Venetian blinds invented?
What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?
Where did India ink originate?*

Most of us know more than we think we know. We also think we know more than we actually do-because some of what we think we know simply 'ain't so.' We all harbor misconceptions that are accepted not only because they are popular but also because they make sense.

SUDOKU (SOO-DOH-KOO): a 9x9 logic puzzle to superheat the very core of your brain and to challenge your numeracy, spacial awareness and problem-solving abilities.

WARNING: the five levels of The Penguin Sudoku Challenge: Volume 2 may leave you smugly grinning, scratching your head, sighing deeply, snapping your pencil - and maybe  even throwing your book at the wall.

But you also have permission...

Sudoku is the world's most popular logic puzzle. It's fun, infuriating, and absolutely addictive!

The rules to the puzzle, as with all great puzzles, are deceptively simple and easy to understand. It's a puzzle of reasoning and logic—no math involved—but that's not to say that Sudoku won't give your brain a workout. With four levels of puzzles, ranging from gentle through moderate and tough...

Sudoku is the world's most popular logic puzzle. It's fun, infuriating, and absolutely addictive!

The rules to the puzzle, as with all great puzzles, are deceptively simple and easy to understand. It's a puzzle of reasoning and logic—no math involved—but that's not to say that Sudoku won't give your brain a workout. With four levels of puzzles, ranging from gentle through moderate and tough...

Sudoku is the world's most popular logic puzzle. It's fun, infuriating, and absolutely addictive!

The rules to the puzzle, as with all great puzzles, are deceptively simple and easy to understand. It's a puzzle of reasoning and logic—no math involved—but that's not to say that Sudoku won't give your brain a workout. With four levels of puzzles, ranging from gentle through moderate and tough...