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1 Pick a Party : The Big Book of Party Themes and Occasions
Patty Sachs

Current:
9.6
This is the biggest and most complete book of party themes ever written! This is the party "bible" for anyone interested in hosting a special event. It provides 145 innovative party themes and occasions for all of life's special even ... [more] [Submit]
2 Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards
Robert Byrne

Current:
9.5
In the world of cue sticks and side pockets, this is the gospel, the 1998 revised, standard version of the 1978 bible. A champion player, indefatigable writer, and inexhaustible promoter of his sport, Byrne racks his book into two halves, t ... [more] [Submit]
3 If 2 : More Questions for the Game of Life
Evelyn McFarlane

Current:
9.5
If you found out for certain there is a Heaven and a Hell, how would you change your life? If you had to name the one thing that most frightens you about growing old, what would it be? If you could have only one part of your body massaged e ... [more] [Submit]
4 A Course in Game Theory
Martin J. Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein

Current:
9.4
"I recommend this book highly, it is beautifully done..." -- Robert Aumann, Hebrew University A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizi ... [more] [Submit]
5 Team-Building Activities for Every Group
Alanna Jones

Current:
9.4
107 interactive games and activities can be found in the pages of this easy-to-use book. Each game is fun, experiential, easy to lead, unique, and requires minimal resources. With 65 team challenges and 42 activities that help any team get ... [more] [Submit]
6 The Club Series : Introduction to Bridge : Bidding
Audrey Grant, Martina Navratilova

Current:
9.3
Fun and easy way to learn the game of bridge. Focuses on bidding. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
7 The 99 Critical Shots in Pool : Everything You Need to Know to Learn and Master the Game
Ray Martin

Current:
9.3
Taking a cue from the millions of younger Americans who have recently rediscovered pool, Times Books has revamped and redesigned this classic guide to the sport. Here's the low-down on how to play off the cushions, use the bridge, make curv ... [more] [Submit]
8 Come Play With Me : Games and Toys for Creative Lovers
Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

Current:
9.2
Author of the reader-friendly manuals Nice Couple Do and If It Feels Good now offers an exciting new look at sex--one that uses games and toys to put the fun back into the boudoir. From lace to leather, from bathtub games to bedsheet dramas ... [more] [Submit]
9 Child's Play : 200 Instant Crafts and Activities for Preschoolers
Leslie Hamilton

Current:
9.2
Here is first aid in paperback form for days at home with the kids. This entertaining compendium of arts and crafts, games, and projects will help keep an energetic preschooler happy, busy, and challenged. Arranged by age group to allow def ... [more] [Submit]
10 Games People Play : The Biggest and Best Book of Party Games and Activities
Penny Warner

Current:
9.1
180 party games to keep your party hopping This big book of 180 party games and as many variations, ranging from the intellectual to the rowdy (even risqué) puts the fun back into parties. Games People Play is full of wor ... [more] [Submit]
11 The Buck Book/All Sorts of Things to Do With a Dollar Bill-Besides Spend It/Book and Dollar Bill
Anne Akers Johnson

Current:
9.1
A crisp one-dollar bill comes with a volume depicting unique uses for a buck, such as folding it into a fully functional ring, creating a tiny elephant, and making an official Buffalo Bill badge. ... [more] [Submit]
12 The Puzzlemaster Presents 200 Mind-Bending Challenges from Npr : From Npr
Will Shortz, Liane Hansen (Introduction)

Current:
9.1
One of the most popular features of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday broadcasts have been the seven minutes of puzzling with puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Shortz, former editor of Games magazine and now crossword edi ... [more] [Submit]
13 The Merlin Mystery
Jonathan Gunson(Illustrator), Marten Coombe (Illustrator)

Current:
9.1
Can you solve Merlin's mystery? If you can, you'll be richly rewarded. The Merlin Mystery rekindles the fervor that swept readers of Masquerade in the 1980s by offering an intricatel ... [more] [Submit]
14 Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery
Raymond Smullyan

Current:
9.0
The paperback reprint of Smullyan's most successful book of puzzles--a mind-bending, pleasurable romp through the world of logic. For all ages and all levels of difficulty, these puzzles range from those that can be solved in minutes to tho ... [more] [Submit]
15 Perplexing Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paul Sloane

Current:
8.9
"Jim and Joe were fighting, so their mother punished them by making them stand on the same sheet of newspaper ... in such a way that neither boy could touch the other. How?" (The answer's in the last paragraph of this review.) ... [more] [Submit]
16 Challenging IQ Tests
Philip J. Carter, Kenneth A. Russell

Current:
8.9
Twenty treacherous tests gauge mental flexibility and breadth of knowledge. Synonyms, missing words, logical comparisons, equations, and numerical progressions will tease and tantalize. 537 illustrations. more] [Submit]
17 Ingenious Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paul Sloane

Current:
8.8
Readers can see how "in shape" their minds are with some of the most challenging critical thinking questions they'll ever encounter. This book has them finishing layouts, doing tricky calculations, and solving the complex mysteries of visua ... [more] [Submit]
18 Hard-To-Solve Brainteasers
Jaime Poniachik, Lea Poniachik

Current:
8.8
Woven throughout these entertaining stories about a group of friends who love all kinds of riddles and mathematic puzzlers are a series of tough brain games. Join in the fun by participating in the playful competitions. more] [Submit]
19 Brainplay : Challenging Puzzles & Thinking Games
Tom Werneck, Annette Englander (Translator)

Current:
8.7
Woven throughout these entertaining stories about a group of friends who love all kinds of riddles and mathematic puzzlers are a series of tough brain games. Join in the fun by participating in the playful competitions. more] [Submit]
20 Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes : Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
Raymond Smullyan

Current:
8.6
The dazzlingly clever and always entertaining Raymond Smullyan takes an unorthodox approach to chess puzzles by treating them as mysteries--with Sherlock Holmes as guide and mentor. The key concept is retrograde analysis. Rather than figuri ... [more] [Submit]
21 Games Magazines Presents Will Shortz's Best Brain Busters
Will Shortz, Ruth Fecych

Current:
8.5
Will Shortz has compiled 150 of his favorite word puzzles in this one-of-a-kind collection. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
22 The Brain Pack : An Interactive, Three-Dimensional Exploration of the Mysteries of the Mind
Ron Van Der Meer

Current:
8.3
The Brain Pack is an interactive, three-dimensional tour of the ever-convoluted human brain. Egyptians and early Greeks believed that we thought with our hearts. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said our brain was doing al ... [more] [Submit]
23 Challenging False Logic Puzzles
Norman D. Willis, Norman D. Wills

Current:
8.3
Arrive in the magical home of false logic puzzles. Filled with inconsistencies and lies, puzzlers have to use all of their brainpower to figure these out. Read more more] [Submit]
24 Furby Trainer's Guide
J. Douglas Arnold

Current:
8.2
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25 Great Games for Great Parties : How to Throw a Perfect Party
Andrea Campbell, Sanford Hoffman (Illustrator)

Current:
8.2
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26 300 Three Minute Games : Quick and Easy Activities of 2-5 Year Olds
Jackie Silberg, Cheryl Kirk Noll (Illustrator)

Current:
8.2
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27 The Best Party Book : 1001 Creative Ideas for Fun Parties
Penny Warner, Kathy Rogers (Illustrator)

Current:
8.2
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28 The Baby Games : The Joyful Guide to Child's Play from Birth to Three Years
Elaine Martin

Current:
8.2
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29 The Baby Shower Book : Etiquette, Decorations, Games, Food
Pauline Glendenning

Current:
8.1
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30 365 Days of Creative Play : For Children 2 Yrs. & Up
Gray Judith

Current:
8.1
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31 Myst : The Official Strategy Guide (Prima's Secrets of the Games, Vol 1)
Rick Barba, Rusel Demaria

Current:
8.0
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32 Tomb Raider : Game Secrets (Secrets of the Games Series.)
Nick Roberts

Current:
8.0
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33 A Book of Surrealist Games
Alastair Brotchie

Current:
8.0
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34 The Riddle of Scheherazade : And Other Amazing Puzzles, Ancient & Modern (Harvest Book)
Raymond Smullyan

Current:
7.9
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35 Great Critical Thinking Puzzles
Myron Miller(Illustrator), Michael Anthony DiSpezio

Current:
7.7
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36 Lateral Thinking Puzzlers
Paul Sloane, Myron Miller (Illustrator)

Current:
7.6
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37 Brainteasers and Mindbenders
Ben Hamilton

Current:
7.6
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38 Quick-To-Solve Brainteasers : Official American Mensa Puzzle Book
J. J. Para Resolver En el Mendoza Fernandez, J. J. Mendoza Fernandez

Current:
7.4
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39 Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paul Sloane

Current:
7.4
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40 The Riddle of Scheherazade : And Other Amazing Puzzles, Ancient & Modern
Raymond M. Smullyan, Raymond Smulliyan

Current:
7.3
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41 Break the Code : Cryptography for Beginners
Bud Johnson, Larry Daste (Illustrator)

Current:
7.2
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42 Brain Power : Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills
Karl Albrecht, Karl Albercht

Current:
7.2
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43 Five Minute Whodunits
Stan Smith, Lucy Corvino (Illustrator)

Current:
7.1
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44 Wonderplay : Interactive & Developmental Games, Crafts, & Creative Activities for Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers
Fretta Reitzes

Current:
7.1
For children, anytime is playtime. "Wonderplay" is a parent's guide to active child's play. With more than 200 activities--games, craft projects, cooking, music, dancing, and more--this wonderful book offers many ways to have fun with child ... [more] [Submit]
45 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards (Complete Idiot's Guide To...)
Ewa Mataya Laurance

Current:
7.0
Pool is currently the fifth largest recreational sport in America, with over 45 million people playing at least once a year. As the trend grows--and more and more bars now sport one, if not several, pool tables--there is an ever-increasing ... [more] [Submit]
46 Creative Whack Pack
Roger Von Oech

Current:
6.9
An illustrated deck of 64 creative thinking strategies to enhance every player's creativity. Complete instructions are included with cards. Min: 1. --This text refers to the paperback edition ... [more] [Submit]
47 Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles
Michael A. Dispezio, Myron Miller (Illustrator)

Current:
6.9
Readers can see how "in shape" their minds are with some of the most challenging critical thinking questions they'll ever encounter. This book has them finishing layouts, doing tricky calculations, and solving the complex mysteries of visua ... [more] [Submit]
48 Fun With Hypnosis : The Complete How-To Guide
Svengali

Current:
6.9
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49 Mensa IQ Workout
Stan Smith, Lucy Corvino (Illustrator)

Current:
6.8
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