Henry Carter Hull

Search for the hidden images in the pictures throughout the book, and learn about the American Indians and the wildlife of the area.

The riveting #1 international bestselling novel about the quest across centuries by two intrepid women in different eras to reunite the pieces of a powerful, ancient chess set A fabulous, bejeweled chess set that belonged to Charlemagne has been buried in a Pyrenees abbey for a thousand years. As the bloody French Revolution rages in Paris, the nuns dig it up and scatter its pieces across the globe because, when united, the set contains a secret power...

Creating your own escape room at home can be a fun and challenging way to spend an afternoon or evening with your family or friends. An escape room is an adventure game in which players are locked in a room and have to use elements of the room to solve puzzles and escape within a set time limit. This book gives you practical advice to help you write your own story, create clues and puzzles, find props and run a successful event. We discuss tips...

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe Try not to go insane as you enter the world of master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, with this fascinating collection of cunning puzzles and curious riddles. The ground-breaking master of mystery and horror Edgar Allan Poe was fascinated by puzzles and codes, as well as being the inventor of detective fiction. So, you will need your wits about you, as you hone your own skills...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The aging brain is not a disease, and it does not have to go into a steep decline as we get older. In fact, new brain cells are generated in adults. The most common mental decline experienced by people is not due to the death of nerve cells, but rather the thinning out of the number and complexity of dendrites, which reduces the brain's ability to put new information...

Pet Rescue Saga is a puzzle game that is available on Facebook. It is a game that requires the player to remove blocks of the same color to be able to rescue pet animals hence it was named Pet Rescue Saga. The game is available for free. If you have a Facebook account, you can play it as you chat or view your newsfeed on the site. The game is also available through apps so that you can play it via an iPhone, an iPod Touch or through an iPad. There...

In this book, there are 150 unique puzzles and solutions of 16 different categories. Each puzzle is unique. These are nowhere to be found. All my own production, 150 puzzles with characters numbers, geometric, mathematical, logic and will delight readers of all ages. Puzzles in this book, illustrated, all different figure, different size and with different levels of difficulty. Some are easy, some are hard some are very difficult. They are very entertaining...

With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing... presently... details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold-everywhere the glint of gold. Howard Carter Lost to antiquity, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was rediscovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Its hidden location in the Valley...

Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Nihilist, grille, U. S. Army, key-phrase, multiple-alphabet, Gronsfeld, Porta, Beaufort, periodic ciphers, and more. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve - with solutions.

The Tangram has seven pieces. If you take the square piece to have an area equal to one, then the area of all the pieces is eight. The Tangram is not unique, but one of many variations - many being ancient. One of note is Archimedes' Stomachion. The Tangram Book by Jerry Slocum makes a persuasive case that its origin is Chinese dating to around 1800; the book also provides an excellent history of the Tangram. For those interested, another good book...