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The Whirl of Words: Puzzling Past and Present
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Logic & Brain TeasersPuzzlesWord Search
Publisher Price: $22.00
ISBN13: 9781039107113
Publisher: Friesenpr
Published: Jun 2 2021
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.55 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Jonathan Berkowitz offers a brief history of wordplay, with insights into puzzles and the brain. He offers tips on how to solve puzzles and explains the educational value of puzzles. Challenges in the form of rebuses, anagrams, codes and cryptograms, crosswords, and wordplay with numbers supply even more fun!
The Whirl of Words is a unique, rich, and intriguing tour of a wide variety of word puzzles certain to stimulate a brain work-out.
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