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Word Salad
  • Published: 10 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911754572
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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Word Salad

A Fresh Take on Your Daily Word Search

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Viral online themed daily word puzzle with an innovative spin now available for the first time as a book.

FROM THE ADDICTIVE ONLINE DAILY WORD SEARCH PUZZLE

Can you find the hidden words?

Word Salad is a delicious combination of challenging fun and tricky brainteasers, designed to test your general knowledge.

With over 250 brand new Word Salad puzzles mixed with a fiendish and highly original crossword-clue style quiz, this book offers the perfect way to escape your screens and have some challenging fun using just your wit and a pencil.

The puzzles have all been devised by two childhood friends and obsessive puzzlers, Samuel and Mark. Each puzzle includes a four-by-four grid of letters that spell words relating to a theme, ranging from art and literature to popular culture, geography to the natural world, food and drink to daily life.

The magic of Word Salad is that the answers are right there in front of you, obvious once you’ve found them, but gloriously frustrating when you haven’t.
  • Published: 10 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911754572
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the authors

Samuel Johnston

Samuel Johnston studied sociology and politics, first at the University of Cambridge and then at the University of Oxford. He has had a life-long interest in games and puzzles, beginning with some extremely competitive games of Monopoly with his family during childhood summer holidays. Together with Mark Wainwright he founded the game studio Bleppo in 2023 which has produced Steks, Word Salad and Number Salad.
SJ

Mark Wainwright

Mark Wainwright studied mathematics and computer science at Imperial College London. He worked as a software engineer in the music industry for a decade before founding Bleppo. Mark created the first prototype for Word Salad as a puzzle to entertain his now-wife Stephanie during the 2020 lockdowns. He and Samuel Johnston both live and work in London.
MW

Praise for Word Salad

The game of the moment.

Sunday Times

Hugely popular.

Apple