Puzzles & quizzes

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Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Picture Puzzles, Volume 2
By Editors The & of Alpha Books Designers

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 -

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...

Published: 01/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781615641390
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Puzzles Baron's Logic Puzzles, Volume 2
By Baron Puzzle

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles Volume 2

Provides 200 grid based logic puzzles from the popular online puzzle site. For each puzzle, readers are given a background story and a list of text based clues and then you use logic to arrive at the correct answer. Includes statistics, such as the average completion time, record completion time, and the percentage of puzzles who successfully complete...

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles Volume 2

Provides 200 grid based logic puzzles from the popular online puzzle site. For each puzzle, readers are given a background story and a list of text based clues and...
Published: 28/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781615641529
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Puzzle Baron's Sudoku
By Puzzle Baron

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

From the successful 'Puzzle Baron,' the creator of the popular puzzlebaron.com game site.   Puzzle Baron's Sudoku is the perfect book for the ever growing number of compulsive Sudoku enthusiasts. With a total of 400 Sudoku puzzles-25 easy, 100 medium, 175 hard, and 100 super hard Sudoku puzzles-this smart, symmetrical, elegant...

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

From the successful 'Puzzle Baron,' the creator of the popular puzzlebaron.com game site.   Puzzle Baron's Sudoku is the perfect...
Published: 18/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781615641215
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Learn Something Every Day
By Young

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

SOPHOPHOBIA IS THE FEAR OF LEARNING

LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY





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

SOPHOPHOBIA IS THE FEAR OF LEARNING

LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY





Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399536663
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Sorry, Wrong Answer: Trivia Questions That Even Know-It-Alls Get Wrong
By Rod L Evans

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.





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...



Published: 12/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399535864
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: The Penguin Sudoku Challenge
By David J Bodycombe

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 (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...

Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241959404
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: A Sudoku of One's Own
By Michael Mepham

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...

Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143175780
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Murder on the Sudoku Express
By Michael Mepham

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...

Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143175797
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Wuthering Sudoku
By Michael Mepham

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...

Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143175803
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Penguin Classics Crossword Puzzles
By Ben Tausig

A UNIQUE TREAT FOR FANS OF WORDPLAY AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE

A UNIQUE TREAT FOR FANS OF WORDPLAY AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE

Published: 22/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143119807
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Penguin Pocket Sudoku 3
By David J Bodycombe

The mini marvel of Sudoku books is back!

Here are 200 brand new puzzles to get your grey matter going, with five levels of classic games ranging from the enjoyably easy to more challenging to the pencil-snappingly hard.

This portable pocket-sized delight will make sure your mental agility is on top form and keep boredom at bay. Wherever you are, you'll never need to be without a sudoku.

The mini marvel of Sudoku books is back!

Here are 200 brand new puzzles to get your grey matter going, with five levels of classic games ranging from the enjoyably easy to more challenging to the pencil-snappingly...

Published: 04/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141046273
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Penguin Pocket Sudoku 2

Here is Penguin's latest pocket-sized volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. Pocket Penguin Sudoku 2 contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind-bogglingly difficult. It provides a daily fix for the hardened Sudoku fan and sets an irresistible challenge for novices. But it's more than a game. Sudoku is seriously good for you: it builds your concentration...

Here is Penguin's latest pocket-sized volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. Pocket Penguin Sudoku 2 contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind-bogglingly...

Published: 05/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141038186
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Pocket Penguin Sudoku
Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession.

Here is Penguin's volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. Pocket Penguin Sudoku contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind-bogglingly difficult. It provides a daily fix for the hardened Sudoku fan and sets an...

Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession.

Here is Penguin's volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that...

Published: 30/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141034928
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Penguin Factfinder
By David Crystal
Our very own 'national treasure' (as declared by John Humphrys) David Crystal brings us yet another quintessential knowledge compendium. The new edition of The Penguin Factfinder has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent changes in politics, sport, culture and the arts to the end of 2006.

In an age where information is easy to find but hard to verify, Crystal brings us a refreshingly straightforward...

Our very own 'national treasure' (as declared by John Humphrys) David Crystal brings us yet another quintessential knowledge compendium. The new edition of The Penguin Factfinder has been fully revised...
Published: 19/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141026220
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The Quickway Crossword Dictionary
Published: 12/01/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140514018
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Playful Brain
By Richard Restak & Kim Scott

'Crossword addicts that we are, we were thrilled to learn that out habit is actually juicing our brainpower-or at least one particular brand of brainpower.  The Playful Brain . . . runs through everything from Sudoku to mazes to how pickpockets operate in order to explain the beneficial effects of puzzles on memory, perception, and cognition.'
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

You're building up your...


'Crossword addicts that we are, we were thrilled to learn that out habit is actually juicing our brainpower-or at least one particular brand of brainpower.  The Playful Brain . . . runs through everything...

Published: 03/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594485459
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spanish-English Crossword Puzzles
By Gail Stein & Matt Gaffney
Crosswords remain a favourite among puzzlers worldwide-and they can be a fun way to enhance the process of learning a language. Now, there are new challenges for puzzle-lovers who want to learn Spanish. Perfect for students, these 82 puzzles (solutions included) focus on such themes as food and travel, range from easy to expert, and test vocabulary and rudimentary phrases. Comprehensive word finder...
Crosswords remain a favourite among puzzlers worldwide-and they can be a fun way to enhance the process of learning a language. Now, there are new challenges for puzzle-lovers who want to learn Spanish...
Published: 07/05/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592575930
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Bamber Gascoigne's Universally Challenging Quiz Book
By Bamber Gascoigne
Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?
The demolition of the old London Bridge put an end to what famous tradition?
Which philosopher caught a fatal chill returning from a predawn lesson given to Queen Christina of Sweden?
What was the real name of Buffalo Bill?
Which mutiny, leading to a war of independence, was provoked by the use of animal fat?
What was smuggled from Alexandria...




Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?
The demolition of the old London Bridge put an end to what famous tradition?
Which philosopher caught a fatal chill returning from a predawn...

Published: 04/02/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141034706
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Word Search Puzzles, Volume 3
By Matt Gaffney

Tons of fun for puzzlers of all ages!

Are you a word search aficionado?  Do you love scouring through columns and rows of letters to find hidden words?  Or are your looking for some enjoyable brainteasers to keep your mind active and your eyes sharp?  You've come to the right place!

Packed with over 300 word searches on a variety of themes, this entertaining collection of puzzles gives...

Tons of fun for puzzlers of all ages!

Are you a word search aficionado?  Do you love scouring through columns and rows of letters to find hidden words?  Or are your looking for some enjoyable...

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781615640812
RRP: $19.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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