Maze Madness includes 60 mazes for you to try to master. The book boasts that it not only has traditionally challenging mazes, but it also includes 3D elements to make getting out of the maze even harder. Optical Illusions Over the course of my growing up, as much as I’ve loved puzzle books, I’ve fallen away from them. Once in a while I’ll grab one if I’m flying and can’t find anything good to read or if I’m dealing with a rough bout of depression and realize it’s the only way to stimulate my brain to do something. I tend to go for word searches and once in a great while, a fill-in-the-word. Crosswords are too challenging for me, and while I enjoy Soduku, sometimes that requires too much energy. These come in a wide variety of formats, but what they all have in common is they require you to use the most logical thinking patterns you have to find a solution. Readers who love mysteries or crime and love to play along in solving what’s happened will devour logic puzzles.

Once you’re in the mindset of looking at images carefully and figuring out what is and is not going on, it’s only logical to then reach for picture puzzle books. It’s likely you first discovered these in a place like Highlights magazine, but now, you can rediscover them as an adult.Have any other best puzzle books or logic puzzle books for adults? Leave ’em in the comments—I’d love to expand my own puzzle playing horizons. The more codewords you solve the more you get a sense for common patterns that occur, for instance the most common double-letters and so forth, which can be very useful when you see the same number occur in consecutive squares in the grid. Word wheels are a great way to test your vocabulary and whilst a simple puzzle, they are enduringly popular. The set-up of this puzzle type is quite simple: you are given a wheel that contains eight letters around the inside, and one additional letter in the middle of the wheel. You must then find as many words as you can (no proper nouns or plural) from the letters in the grid. Every word you find must use a selection of letters from the outside of the wheel and in addition every word must use the central letter. There is also always one word that uses every letter in the grid - can you find it? If you're good at solving the Countdown conundrum then you will probably be good at finding the nine-letter word in a wordwheel puzzle! If you want your puzzles with a small math element, you’ll love Cross Sums. Set up in a crossword style grid, the goal is to enter only the numbers 1–9 in the squares so that they add up to the corresponding clues. The grids come in a variety of shapes and styles. This is a catch-all category of puzzle books, but perhaps one of the most comprehensive books is Puzzle Baron’s Logic Puzzles. The collection has 200 grid-based logic puzzles for you to try your hand at, ranging from easy to exceptionally challenging. You can also snap up 50 Logic Puzzles.

Certainly, this list of puzzle books has included an assortment of word puzzle games. But this collection is worth noting, too, as it offers up a wide variety of types of word puzzles beyond the ones that are maybe most familiar or comfortable to the average person. Also, it’s created and edited by David L. Hoyt and the team behind Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Did you know there is a huge assortment of puzzle books featuring the game hangman you remember from elementary school? There are, and they’re focused on adults who want to have some fun. Remember when you’d sit down with a pencil and follow a series of mazes in your activity book and hope you’d come out the other side? You can relive that magic—or misery—with maze puzzles made for adults. They are, like coloring books and dot-to-dot books for grown ups, made more challenging because of how intricate they are.There are various tactics that can help you to do this - for a start certain letters are much more popular in English than others, so the number that occurs the most time is usually the E, or possibly the T or A which are other common letters. There are also various other patterns common in English that can help you solve: for instance if you have the letter 'I' two from the end of a word, then it is often the case that the word ends in 'ING' or 'ION'. For fans of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective series comes a collection of puzzles inspired by Holmes' most popular cases and adventures. There are many popular puzzle types, including crosswords, wordsearches, arrow words, codewords, sudoku and kriss kross. We have a range of collections from those composed of a single puzzle type through to puzzle books that contain a range of different puzzle types. We aim to cater for every puzzle-lover so hopefully we have a collection of puzzles in one of our books that is just right for you. This collection of over 450 puzzles includes “Mixed-Up Definition, unscramble the letters to reveal the definition of a given word. In Syllabary, use the clues to link syllables in a grid to create words. In Cross’d Word Connections, find the letters in common to help solve a series of four crossword puzzles. Plus Dictionary Race Winder, Make the Connection, Color Word Chains, Prism Word Finder, and other clever riffs on word searches.