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by Patrick Merrell (Author)
Sharpen your mind with these brain-boosting word puzzles! Created by professional puzzlemaker and cartoonist Patrick Merrell, this collection of 50 original mind-benders includes acrostics, crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, wordoku, and other entertaining and challenging games to test and strengthen your mental skills. Take a break from your digital life -- relax, grab a pencil, and have an old-fashioned good time. Includes solutions.
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Challenge yourself with these brain-boosting word games!
Put your brainpower to the test with these 50 original mind-benders! Created by professional puzzlemaker and cartoonist Patrick Merrell, this entertaining collection includes a variety of acrostics, crosswords, cryptograms, wordoku puzzles, word pyramids, word searches, and other popular pastimes. Take a break from your digital life--relax, grab a pencil, and have an old-fashioned good time. Includes solutions.
Author Biography
Patrick Merrell is a professional puzzlemaker, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. He's one of MAD magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots." He's created over 250 books, including 75 puzzle books, and written 81 crosswords for The New York Times (including 19 Sundays). Six of his Times crosswords appear in Will Shortz's Picks His Favorite Puzzles, the most of any constructor. From 2009 to 2011 he wrote for Wordplay, the daily online crossword column for The New York Times.
Over the past 25 years, he's produced thousands of illustrations, cartoons, greeting cards, posters, book covers, logo designs, and articles for a myriad of publishers, advertising agencies, national magazines, books, design firms, city agencies, and others.
In addition to writing crosswords for The New York Times, he's also created puzzles for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, People, Sports Illustrated, MAD, National Wildlife Federation, Crayola, Scholastic, the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the World Puzzle Championship, and many, many others. Two of his crosswords and an interview were included in the 2006 documentary Wordplay.
In his spare time, he's a bicycle road racer and writes animated screenplays.
