Puzzles and Games

Perfect for coffee breaks, commutes or relaxing at home, this collection of 200 brand new Codeword puzzles is guaranteed to provide you with a daily challenge. The book is arranged...

We need to exercise our bodies to keep fit and the same is true for our brains. After all, what's good for your gut, your cardiovascular system, and your muscles,...

Test your puzzling skills with this new book of Daily Mail Giant Crosswords . With both 'Cryptic' and 'Quick' clues for each super-size crossword, how you tackle them is up...

Nothing rewards close attention like the work of the great old master painters - and with Masterpiece Spot-the-Difference, you'll be lost in a gallery of the world's most stupendous artworks...

Card Games is a detailed guide to 52 of the most popular card games, perfect for players of all ages. A simple deck of cards can provide hours of entertainment...

A detailed guide to the US forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition , containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides . With this new and revised supplement...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PUZZLE SERIES Come on a puzzle adventure and meet iconic figures from British history. The bestselling series returns with over 300 new puzzles to test the...

Sixteen individual notecards (with envelopes) featuring stylish illustrations from The Grammar of Spice (ISBN 978 0 500 519677).

Inspired by such illustrious compilations as the Canterbury Puzzles, Moscow Puzzles, and Tokyo Puzzles, Colombian mathematician and professor Bernardo Recaman Santos assembled these 80 brainteasers, which he acquired while living...

Lose yourself in this latest bumper collection of quick-fire crosswords. Solve the clues and navigate your way to completing these fast and furious crosswords. With over 300 quick-fire crosswords, The...

The third title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story....

A Quality Deck of Playing Cards with Expert Watercolor Tips and Tricks on Every Card. . Beautifully packaged set of playing cards so you can enjoy all your favourite card...

Forty-six picturesque scenes celebrate the simple pleasures of country life: farms, roadside stands, pastures, mills, covered bridges, and more. Colourists can achieve realistic effects with the help of lightly printed...

The Puzzle Universe is intended for general readers and devoted puzzlers but it has also found its way into school libraries and curricula. It is about the latent beauty of...

A brilliantly engaging and richly rewarding puzzle book from one of Britain's oldest and most respected institutions Sharpen your wit and delve into the fascinating world of British currency with...

This is the only annual price guide to the ever-expanding field of collectables. Over 6000 fully captioned photographs are featured, covering a wide range of traditional and more unusual collecting...

Reach for your trusty pen or pencil and tackle this bumper collection of word challenges at your leisure. Arranged in themes, they will provide a mental workout and relaxation therapy...

A fast-paced miniatures game of whimsical fantasy jousting. While the Hairfoot halflings typically prefer eating and drinking to strenuous exercise, one thing that is sure to stir them from their...

A detailed guide to the US forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition , containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides . With this new and revised supplement...

A solo and cooperative skirmish wargame for investigating and battling the supernatural mysteries of the modern world. When Nightmares Come is a tabletop miniatures wargame about modern day monster hunting...

A Billion Suns is a wargame of interstellar combat that puts you in command of fleets of powerful starships, from squadrons of agile, but fragile, fighters, to hulking and powerful...

The bestselling tie-in to Dave's runaway hit series now in paperback, and with brand new tasks by creator Alex Horne. Build yourself a box and think outside of it. Your...

A dieselpunk roleplaying game of action, mystery and mad science! Tomorrow City was one of the cities of the future, built to usher in a new age of prosperity, seizing...

THE THRILLING NEW HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVEL FROM BOYD AND BETH MORRISON - DUEL OF BEASTS - AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW! The thrilling new historical adventure in the Tales of the...

'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play...

There's a parasitic shapeshifter on the loose and it's your job to work out who it is. Discover everything you need to survive in the smash-hit multiplayer detective game with...

Chambers Card Games for One is a new collection of patience card games that features all the classics along with many less well-known games. Whether you want to unwind with...

The Collins Complete Puzzler Solver is a complete reference for word game lovers. This unique compendium contains over 400,000 puzzle solutions including crossword wordlists, the most important words in Scrabble,...

Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills. Being a winner also requires a mindset that is able to cope with lots of stress...

Grandmaster John Emms revisits the fundamentals of the c3 Sicilian. He explains in depth the reasoning behind the critical early moves and uses instructive games to demonstrate key plans.

An essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Rather than attempting to cover every theoretical possible endgame position, Paul Keres deals with the...

This book examines how the value of pieces changes in the course of a game and how masters use this knowledge to decide which pieces to exchange - and when....

"The beauty of a game of chess is usually appraised, and with good reason, according to the sacrifices it contains. On principle we incline to rate a sacrificial game more...

This story reveals much about the obsessiveness involved in the international game of chess. Bobby Fischer and his father were drawn into the bizarre world of Manhattan's seedy chess parlours...

The Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid French Defence. Its popularity among club players is not difficult to understand: by advancing the e-pawn to e5...

In his much-awaited third and final volume on the French Defence, Pedersen covers all of White's alternatives to 3 Nc3 and 3 Nd2. These include the aggressive Advance, the quiet...

Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most...

'Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy. He tries to fulfil the duties of the host and shakes hands, but his nervously darting eyes betray his unease with...

The world's top trainer, Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov, present a five-volume series based on courses given to talented young players throughout the world....

Victor Korchnoi, one of the greatest experts in the field of rook endings, now documents his own experiences in tournament play. His main purpose is to inspire readers with a...

You're booked up on your openings and know the Philidor and Lucena positions hands down, but how to convert all that theoretical knowledge into points against flesh-and-blood opponents? Jay Bonin,...

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge. Often, however, the real key to improvement lies not in learning...

The French Defence is one of the most popular and reliable responses to 1.e4. Grandmaster Repertoire 16 The French Defence 3 concludes this ambitious three-volume series by offering a comprehensive...

Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training...

"Chess is 99% tactics" goes an old saying. Some might disagree, but anyone who has seen his strategic masterpiece destroyed by tactical flaws will agree that even the remaining 1%...

This is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a double Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it is...

The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! But there is often little useful guidance as to how this is best done. By...

* Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players * First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars * Illustrated with a wealth of examples from...