Smart Games: Mind Marathon Word Games: Wordplay, Strategy and Perception Puzzles from Beginner to Expert Level [With CDROM]

by Smart Games and The Editors of Smart Games Inc

This critically acclaimed collection of word puzzles ranging from satisfyingly simple to fiendishly difficult will challenge and delight would-be word wizards. Word Melt, Scramblegrams, Word Hunter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579123635
• ISBN13: 9781579123635
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great for fans of word search puzzles, hard for the rest

In general, I found the word puzzles in this book to be very hard. Most of them are in the category called "Scramblegrams." The structure of these problems is that a series of words are scrambled, with the letters above a series of dashes to be filled in. Some of the letter positions are highlighted and those letters will then be used to create a final phrase. Another type of problem is the "word melt", where you start with a word and change one letter at a time to end with another word. Each intermediate step must also be a valid word. There are also a few "word search" puzzles. In general, I am not a fan of word puzzles; I do them on occasion for a change a pace and challenge. In this case, for me, the emphasis is on challenge.