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Math Trek 2: A Mathematical Space Odyssey

Math Trek 2: A Mathematical Space Odyssey

by Ivars Peterson

Take a wild and Wonderful Voyage Through the Universe of Mathematics! Just imagine how much fun it would be to explore the fourth dimension! Play baseball on an asteroid! Ride an alien bike with square wheels! Let Math Trek 2 take you on an intergalactic excursion as you master dizzying mathematical concepts on your home planet of Earth! While playing games and solving puzzles, you can explore... (more)

A World Champion's Guide to Chess: Step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way (Chess)

A World Champion's Guide to Chess: Step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way (Chess)

by Zsuzsa Polga?r, Hoainhan Truong

Learn to Win at Chess from World Champion Susan Polgar Susan Polgar, 4-time World Chess Champion, became a living legend by following the methods taught by her father, Laszlo Polgar, the famous Hungarian chess coach. In A World Champion's Guide to Chess , Susan reveals these masterful tactics and techniques to players of all ages. With coauthor Paul Truong, an 11-time National Champion, she begins with the... (more)

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

by Merriam-Webster

New edition! An inexpensive edition of the book that SCRABBLE® players call their bible. Ideal for recreational and school play. More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including 4,000 new entries. Includes variant spellings. Endorsed by the National SCRABBLE® Association.

Little Black Book Of Poker (Little Black Book Series)

Little Black Book Of Poker (Little Black Book Series)

by John Hartley

You can bet this poker primer delivers the inside straight on how to survive poker night with your wallet intact! Odds are you'll pick up serious tips from these pages packed with information on history, rules, strategy, lingo, and the inexact science of bluffing. Ninety games explained step by step. 160 pages; 4-1/4'' wide x 5-3/4'' high; concealed wire-o binding; book lies flat for ease of use; elastic band... (more)

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

by Raph Koster

Authored by Raph Koster, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Online Entertainment, this brilliantly illustrated book is a storyboard filled with inspirational ideas for all designers. As Will Wright (co-creator of SimCity 2000 and SimCopter) states in his foreword, "Raph forages across wide intellectual landscapes and then returns to share what he’s discovered with the rest of us…. He has filtered out a treasure trove... (more)

The Inform Designer's Manual

by Graham Nelson

Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index (Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index)

You will own the Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index. This set of encyclopedias are full of great information from the perspective of the 60's. Buy it now!!

The Whizzkid's HandbookPeter Eldin

The Whizzkid's Handbook

by Peter Eldin

Puzzles in wood : simple patterns for creating 45 classics

Puzzles in wood : simple patterns for creating 45 classics

by Edwin Mather Wyatt

Originally published in 1928, this classic reference presents more than 40 unique puzzles to challenge the woodworker’s hands and mind. Projects include bewitching cubes, caged balls, intricate banks, locked links, and perplexing burrs. Secret drawers and hidden locks will provide hours of entertainment for adults and children alike. Skills such as squaring stock, mortising, and mitering are developed through... (more)

Games of Strategy, Second Edition

by Avinash K. Dixit

Now available in a Second Edition, Games of Strategy remains the most accessible principles-level text for courses in game theory, addressing a remarkably broad range of concepts in a narrative that is both clear and compelling. Using resonant real-world examples, the authors simplify difficult theoretic ideas, helping students see the value of strategic thinking in a variety of situations. The text has been... (more)

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games

by Tracy Fullerton, Steven Hoffman, Christopher Swain

Master the craft of game design so you can create that elusive combination of challenge, competition, and interaction that players seek. This design workshop begins with an examination of the fundamental elements of game design; then puts you to work in prototyping, playtesting, and redesigning your own games with exercises that teach essential design skills. Workshop exercises require no background in programming... (more)

The Tangram Book

by Jerry Slocum

With its exquisite photographs and richly informative text, this is simply the best, the most unique, and the most in-depth study of the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game. This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world’s most popular and intriguing puzzles is an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of tangrams, and also a masterful introduction to puzzle solving, with more... (more)

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction

by Nick Montfort

Interactive fiction -- the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure -- has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational programs known as chatterbots. Twisty Little Passages (the title refers to a maze in Adventure , the first interactive fiction) is the first book-length consideration of this form,... (more)

Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

by Chikun Cho

Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection

Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection

by P. Winkler

This collection includes more than 100 of the best (and some of the toughest)mathematical puzzles ever to appear in one volume. You'll need a love for mathematical reasoning and a streak of determination. You won't need a professional acquaintance with mathematics; a motivated high school student has what it takes! If you're up to the challenge, there's even a chapter on Unsolved Puzzles.

The Oxford Guide to Word Games

by Tony Augarde

an absorbing romp through the history of mankind's preoccupation with the 403 septillion ways that the letters of the alphabet can be combined. -Los Angeles Times From the highbrow riddle to the lowly pun, The Oxford Guide to Word Games provides a comprehensive history of verbal wit and word play. Charades, hangman, anagrams, and tongue-twisters are among the many popular games described vividly in this new,... (more)

Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles

by Lewis Carroll

Forty-two tantalizing teasers—most by the creator of Alice in Wonderland and published here for the first time—Cakes in a Row, Alice’s Multiplication Tables, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croquet, Four Brothers and a Monkey, Hidden Names, Diverse Doublets, Mischmasch, more. Many hints and solutions. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 1

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 1

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, three mathematicians created the first and definitive book on mathematical games. Now, this classic is being republished in a completely revised edition, broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments and to reorganize the material in the most accessible way. In Volume 1, the authors present theories and techniques to dissect games of varied structures and... (more)

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 4

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 4

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy

In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays , the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the second edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors' insightful strategies,... (more)

The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time

The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time

by Marcel Danesi

A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from Königsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the... (more)

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