Perplexing Pixel Puzzles

It's a puzzle lover's delight! Start with a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines, and then, with all the logic, concentration, and patience you can muster, get hours of pleasure as pictures appear from your own kind of magic. It's easy to master the codes for the blank and black squares. Before you know it, you'll collect 78 different fun images, including Einstein, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and Honest Abe, as well as the Sphinx, a skull, a flag, and a dinosaur.

Think ordinary conundrums are just too humdrum? Do you finish crossword puzzles in ink and in no time flat? Then get ready for a serious test of your skills, with the ultimate in mental challenges. We've got crosswords of course; more than 50 tough, "regular" ones. But you'll also enjoy dozens and dozens more of different varieties, including devilish "Crushwords" where you have to put more than one letter in each square, and mind-blowing math and logic teasers known as pixel puzzles, where if your answers are correct you'll create a picture of success! And if that isn't enough, you'll also find word puzzles that demand "lateral thinking," and may well be the truest test of your abilities.

All you need is a pencil (and an eraser) to enjoy the twists and tricks, the dead ends and sudden "aha!" experiences, that are yours when you try a pixel puzzle. Start with the puzzles that are merely hard to solve, like the baseball player, the ambulance, and the Liberty Bell. Then go on to the harder ones, like the wedding cake, the elephant, and the trumpeter. Soon you'll be ready to take on the hungry shark, the picture of James Dean, and the astronaut--104 collectible designs in all!

Challenge yourself with more than 230 ingenious puzzles. With over 200 tear-off pages of brainteasers, you'll need to push your powers of reasoning and test your trivia knowledge to discover just how smart you really are.

Pixel Puzzles are broken pictures that you put back together again by drawing them one square at a time. Copy the pixels in each puzzle piece onto the grid to watch the picture emerge. 40 different images. Easier than other mystery grids. This is a calming, mindful activity book for people who like puzzles, colouring, and surprises. Ages 8 and up. Video instructions can be found on Youtube, @WisenheimerPress.

In the world of perplexing lateral thinking puzzles, completely normal situations veer off into the world of the bizarre, confounding, and surreal. Readers decide which facts are important, which ones are red herrings, and which ones have yet to be told. 20 illustrations.