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Richard Osman's House of Games - 1,054 Questions to Test Your Wits, Wisdom and Imagination by Richard Osman; Alan Connor
Category: Puzzles books
Do you know how many post boxes there are in the UK? Could you guess how many times the word 'goat' appear in the King James Version of the bible? Fancy playing a game of charades where all of the books, films and plays are entirely made up? Now, look around the room. Is anyone there the kind of person ...Show more
The Joy of Quiz by Alan Connor
Category: Reference
In 1938 Britain started to quiz. Since then, quizzes have become ubiquitous entertainment from pubs to primetime, suffered major criminal investigations, created unlikely folk heroes and been subjected to the rigours of question checkers. The Joy of Quiz tells the history of quiz and its makers, wonders ...Show more
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling Past of the Cryptic Crossword by Alan Connor
Category: Humour
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the Guardian's writer on crosswords. On 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old. In the ...Show more
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
Category: Languages and Reference
In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and ...Show more
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