Offers a compendium of mind-teasing trivia, including questions on 21st century issues, events and personalities. This book includes quizzes, which range from pot-luck to themed quizzes on a host of subjects - pop music, sport, movies, television, food and drink, world geography, history modern affairs and many others.

Contains rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page, and butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. This work includes playful artistic creations, such as Shigeo Fukuda's 'Mary Poppins,' where a heap of bottles, glasses, shakers, and openers somehow turn into the image of a Belle Epoque woman.

Offers an informative reminder of the things that readers learnt in school but have since become relegated to the backs of their minds. This guide features hundreds of snippets of wisdom, facts, theories, equations, phrases, rules and sayings.

Dot-to-dot puzzles are accompanied by easy-to-follow adventures in this activity book. Both entertaining and educational, this book encourages children in the acquisition of number skills and helps them practise drawing skills.

Give your memory a workout, stimulate your brain and hone your general knowledge with 80 definition-only puzzles from The Times2 section.

Shows in easy steps how to solve those trickier puzzles. This title helps you learn to spot: double straight clues; double meaning clues; word exchange clues; homophone clues; anagrams; and all the other clever clues beloved of crossword compilers. The explanations show how the answers are arrived at, so you can see precisely how each clue works.

Offers kids information about the sun, moon, stars and planets. This book includes information, facts and trivia about: galaxies like the Milky Way and the Big Bang Theory; the sun, its energy and it's 20,000-50,000 Farenheit-degree surface; and, the earth, gravity and how comets and asteroid impacts change the surface of the planets.

Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? This work presents quizzes that reveal what you really think and what it all adds up to.

They call it"speedcubing"-a mind-bending blur of quick twists and turns that solves Rubik's Cube in times that have been clocked at less than 20 seconds! Today, thanks to the 2003 revival of the Rubik's World Championships, speedcubing is spreading like wildfire. Here, complete with detailed illustrations and basic as well as advanced solving techniques, is the ultimate speedcuber's guide. It not only gives the solution to the familiar 3x3x3 cube (which has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000-that's 43 quintillion-possible positions), but also the 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and staggeringly difficult 5x5x5 puzzles. With millions of cubes out there and countless would-be champions looking for tips to improve their times, this is the definitive manual for this unique sport.

Dot-to-dot puzzles are accompanied by easy-to-follow adventures in this activity book. Both entertaining and educational, this book encourages children in the acquisition of number skills and helps them practise drawing skills.

Features hundreds of the world's most powerful optical illusions. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action, vibrating, pulsing, and spinning like a hula hoop. Other ambiguous illusions feature two subjects in one.

Dot-to-dot puzzles are accompanied by easy-to-follow adventures in this activity book. Both entertaining and educational, this book encourages children in the acquisition of number skills and helps them practise drawing skills.

This activity book combines dot-to-dot puzzles with an easy-to-follow adventure story abut nature. It is intended to be both educational and entertaining so as to encourage children in the acquisition of numbers and drawing skills.

The Times Crossword is the best-known crossword in the world. Expert crossword solver and setter, Tim Moorey, dispels the misconception that cryptic crosswords are the preserve of the elite. In this accessible guide, he demonstrates that anyone who enjoys words and word play can learn to solve a cryptic crossword clue.