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Pomegranate | Scientific American Mathematical Games Knowledge Cards
Product# 200800012419
Selling for $9.95
"The sharpest puzzle purveyor working in the English language, the great Martin Gardner wrote his Mathematical Games column for Scientific American in 1956. The forty-eight diabolical Gardner puzzles collected in this deck have rewardingly offbeat setups, featuring learned professors who gallop up down-moving escalators, rose-red cities as old as time itself, and the walking habits of Immanuel Kant. The run really comes in, however, with the demands they make on the would-be solver's powers of reason and the exquisite simplicity of their eventual answers."... |
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Accord Publishing | Kirigami 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900006031
Selling for $14.99
Kirigami Desk Calendar: Don't throw yesterday away! Just (1) Fold it! (2) Cut it! (3) Open itto 100s of unique and beautiful designs throughout the year. It's easy and fun with step-by-step illustrated instructions for each day! Scissors not included.... |
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Accord Publishing | Tangram Puzzle-a-Day 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900006018
Selling for $14.99
"Tangram Puzzle-a-Day Desk Calendar: With 7 simple shapes and unique puzzle designs on each day, the fun will just fall into place. Arrange and rearrange the 7 magnetic pieces (tans) into something new every day. From animals to people to boots and cactus, you'll be amazed by the wonderful images created throughout the year."... |
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Accord Publishing | Word Origin 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900006012
Selling for $12.99
"Word Origin Desk Calendar: Ever wondered where everyday words, expressions, and brand names come from such as vamoose, deadpan, kudos, and on the lam, and Ovaltine? Each day offers entertaining insight into the origin and development of the colorful words and phrases we all use."... |
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Workman Publishing | 365 New Words-A-Year Page-A-Day 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900005914
Selling for $11.99
"365 New Words-A-Year Page-A-Day Desk Calendar: 365 New Words is the best and bestselling word calendar and the essential desk accessory for word buffs, language enthusiasts, and people on a quest for the ne plus ultra of vocabularies. Here are sophisticated words (soigné: well-groomed, sleek), fun-to-say words (catawampus: askew, awry, catercorner), scientific words (extremophile: an organism that lives under extreme conditions), and more, all selected by the editors of America’s most respected dictionary, Merriam-Webster. Each entry includes a definition, pronunciation, sample sentence, and fascinating word history and lineage."... |
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Workman Publishing | 365 Mensa Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900005919
Selling for $11.99
"365 Mensa Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Desk Calendar: It’s a year of brawny puzzles for brawny brains. Created by puzzle master Abby F. Salny and sanctioned by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society, 365 Brain Puzzlers is the smart puzzle calendar for people who aren’t afraid of a challenge. Word Ladders. Palindrome Pals. Odd Man Out. Metamorphosis, Family Trees, Cubic Chaos, and Tom Swifties. Each day’s cranial conundrum will push your neurons to the limit. And just in case the puzzles get the best of you, answers are on the back."... |
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Andrews McMeel | Magic Eye 2009 Wall Calendar
Product# 200900004650
Selling for $13.99
Magic Eye Wall Calendar: Family and friends will enjoy hours of entertainment while viewing the amazing 3D Illusions in this Magic Eye 2009 Calendar. Embedded within each Magic Eye Image is an enchanting 3D hidden image that materializes before the viewer's eyes. The calendar contains simple viewing instructions and a solution key.... |
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Sourcebooks | Word Nerd 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900002693
Selling for $11.99
"Word Nerd Desk Calendar: As practical as a dictionary and enormously fun as a conversation piece. Are you a geek, word freak, wordsmith, ink slinger or someone who just loves to talk or read? You’ll love this collection of little known facts about common—and not so common—words in the English language, including amazing word origins, obscure and fascinating usages, vocabulary-expanding definitions, and compelling bits of information you won’t get from anyone else except a “Word Nerd”. Gurgulation? Another word for stomach rumbling. Deadline? It’s actually a Civil War term for a line that marked the distance a prisoner could go before being shot on sight. And lots, lots more."... |
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Workman Publishing | Life Picture Puzzle 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900002790
Selling for $12.99
"Life Picture Puzzle Desk Calendar: It's interactive fun for the whole family! The Life Picture Puzzle books are a publishing phenomenon, New York Times bestsellers, with 1 million copies in print in just ten months. The concept is simple, entertaining, and utterly addictive: Each page features two full-color photographs that at first glance appear identical. But they contain differences, from the relatively obvious to the maddeningly subtle, that it's the reader's job to spot. The puzzles are organized into four increasingly difficult categories—Novice, Master, Expert, and Genius. Solutions are printed on the back of each page."... |
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Workman Publishing | MENSA 10 Minute Crossword Puzzles 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900002785
Selling for $11.99
"MENSA 10 Minute Crossword Puzzles Desk Calendar: A 10-minute mental workout, every day. New for 2009, the 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Calendar features a year of smartly crafted puzzles that are challenging enough to be from Mensa—the internationally famous high-IQ society—yet are designed to be solved in about ten minutes. (They are roughly equivalent to a Tuesday puzzle in The New York Times.) Author Fred Piscop is a Mensa member and veteran crossword puzzle writer for the Times and The Washington Post. It's the perfect, quick way to wake up the brain."... |
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Workman Publishing | Life Picture Puzzle 2009 Wall Calendar
Product# 200900002781
Selling for $11.99
"Life Picture Puzzle Wall Calendar: Look once, look twice—can you spot the differences? Introducing a brand-new wall calendar based on the New York Times bestselling Life Picture Puzzle books. Wherever it hangs, this lively, interactive calendar promises to draw the entire family into the fun. Here's how it works: Each month features two seemingly identical full-color photographs. But wait—study the pictures a little closer, and you'll find they contain subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) discrepancies. How many can you spot? The puzzles come in four levels of difficulty—Novice, Master, Expert, and Genius—and solutions are printed inside the front cover. Happy hunting!"... |
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Pomegranate | Mindbending Puzzles 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900005791
Selling for $12.99
"Mindbending Puzzles Desk Calendar: This brand-new batch of brainteasers is brought to you by Nathan Haselbauer, founder and president of the International High IQ Society and author of such puzzling publications as The Little Book of Bathroom Brainteasers and The Mammoth Book of IQ Puzzles. Diving into verbal analogies, mathematics, factual knowledge, visual memory, sequential reasoning, and analogical reasoning, Mind-Bending Puzzles runs an engaging gamut of cunningly crafted conundrums. Condensed into a cube, this 365-day, 313-puzzle calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share pages and puzzles) will baffle you throughout 2009. Also included are yearly grids for 2009 and 2010, and pages for notes."... |
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Pomegranate | The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles 2009 Hardcover Engagement Calendar
Product# 200900005869
Selling for $14.99
"The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles Engagement Calendar: The Sunday crossword puzzles of The New York Times are the benchmarks of the puzzlemasters craft. In this handsome, highly functional calendar, Will Shortz and his wickedly erudite contributors present fifty-three extra-large Sunday Times puzzles that will tone up your intellect with their dazzling creativity and linguistic rigor. Also included are the puzzle answers (thank heavens!), full-page 2009 and 2010 yearly grids, a list of international holidays, and a personal information page."... |
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Pomegranate | The New York Times Crossword Puzzles 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900005870
Selling for $12.99
"The New York Times Crossword Puzzles Desk Calendar: With their colorful, up-to-date vocabulary and witty, cultured clues, The New York Times crossword puzzles set the standard for American crosswords. Edited by puzzlemaster extraordinaire Will Shortz, this calendars 314 New York Times puzzles become increasingly difficult as the week progresses. Mondays is relatively straightforward; by Saturday, the puzzle is so challenging we give you two days to solve it (each Saturday and Sunday share a page and a puzzle). Also included are yearly grids for 2009 and 2010, and pages for notes."... |
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Pomegranate | Optical Illusions 2009 Softcover Engagement Calendar
Product# 200900004442
Selling for $13.99
"Optical Illusions Engagement Calendar: Since the Renaissance, artists have relied on rigorous laws of perspective to produce orderly, rational images of the world. In this engagement calendar, Robert Ausbourne violates every optical law in the book, presenting pictures that challenge us to imagine wildly unfamiliar forms. Opposite each of the twenty-seven optical illusions scattered throughout the year is a blank page for your own sketch (or for notes and lists)."... |
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Sellers Publishing | Ultimate Word Games 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900002400
Selling for $12.99
"Ultimate Word Games Desk Calendar: If you're happy when your life is in Alphabetic Disorder, you love getting The Last Word, and you are most happy searching for the perfect words or staring at Talking Pictures, then this is the perfect daily calendar for you. The Ultimate Word Game calendar presents a variety of word games sure to provide a little puzzlement—and enjoyment to each and every day of the year."... |
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Mead | Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzles 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900000379
Selling for $12.99
"Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzles Desk Calendar: With a convenient tear-off page for each day of the year, the LA Times Crossword Puzzle Year-In-A-Box calendar features a puzzle a day and is ideal for use by the phone, at the desk, or on the nightstand. Buy one for yourself; several for friends!"... |
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Screenlife | Scene It Movie 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900009336
Selling for $12.95
"Scene It Movie Desk Calendar: From the world's most popular DVD game comes the Scene It? Daily Movie Trivia Calendar, a daily dose of fun facts and questions from the silver screen. Tear off a page and jumpstart every day with a classic movie moment!"... |
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Mead | USA Today Multi-Puzzles 2009 Desk Calendar
Product# 200900000483
Selling for $12.99
"USA Today Multi-Puzzles Desk Calendar: Start your day with USA Today's exciting stumpers and headscratchers. This daily calendar includes a variety of puzzle types including Crosswords, Word Roundups, QuickCross, Up & Down Words, and Sudoku."... |
