Recommendations... Hidden Pictures
by Mike Artell
Carrots, canoes, fishhooks, saws, golf clubs, and a host of other items lurk in the most unlikely places. Solutions included.
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| |  Go and Go-Moku
by Edward Lasker
Best introduction in English to a great Japanese game. Detailed instructions provide valuable information on basic patterns, strategy, tactics, analyzed games. Used as text by generations of Americans, Japanese. 72 diagrams.
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 Favorite Board Games: You Can Make and Play
by Asterie Baker Provenzo, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games: Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen’s Guard, 35 others. Lexicon, supply list, more.
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| |  Solve the Mystery: 41 Puzzling Cases
by A. C. Gordon
Challenging assignments invite young would-be detectives to solve cases involving burglaries, murders, jewel heists, arson, embezzlement, and other criminal activities. Solutions are included for all of the 41 puzzles.
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 Easy Magic
by Karl Fulves
Sixty-three easy-to-learn tricks show you how to use simple props like cards and coins to show off your seemingly rare powers to predict, read minds, and find answers through extra-sensory perception.
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| |  Big Book of Magic Tricks
by Karl Fulves
Learn to do astounding tricks with cards, coins, rope; also, comedy magic, mental dexterity, more. Few props and little sleight of hand needed. "The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin Gardner. 247 illustrations.
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Products in Chess, Puzzles, Magic, More | | |  | 3-D Space Mazes
by P. A. Heuser
36 convoluted constructions dare maze travelers to find their way over, under, around and through the Tubes, Ring, Limbo, Starship, Diving-Bell and more. Solutions.
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|  | All Around the World Search-a-Word Puzzles
by Victoria Fremont, Brenda Flores
Focusing on various countries from around the world, 40 different puzzles are filled with the names of cities, capitals, rivers, famous residents, currency, natural resources, native flora and fauna, and more.
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|  | The Art of Chess
by James Mason
Endings, combinations, and extensive development of standard openings. Updated by Fred Reinfeld, Sydney Bernstein. 448 diagrams.
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|  | The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
by Rudolf Spielmann
A Grandmaster shares secrets from 40 years of tournament play, outlining hard-won lessons that enable players to win games by giving up pieces. Suitable for players at every level.
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| | Big Book of Magic Tricks
by Karl Fulves
Learn to do astounding tricks with cards, coins, rope; also, comedy magic, mental dexterity, more. Few props and little sleight of hand needed. "The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin Gardner. 247 illustrations.
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|  | Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)
by Frank Brady
Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion chronicles his public and private lives. Includes an analysis of 90 games tracing his rise to supremacy plus complete history of Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.
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|  | Card Tricks and Stunts
by Jean Hugard
Carefully worked out descriptions of another 120 flourishes, sleights, tricks, and manipulations. Forces, passes, glides, color changes, top and bottom changes, double lifts, false cuts, and more.
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| |  | Danger in Chess: How to Avoid Making Blunders
by Amatzia Avni
Develop early warning system based on three sources: outside (the opponent); inside (player's own thought process); and the stimulus itself (board position). 24 black-and-white figures.
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| | Easy Magic
by Karl Fulves
Sixty-three easy-to-learn tricks show you how to use simple props like cards and coins to show off your seemingly rare powers to predict, read minds, and find answers through extra-sensory perception.
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|  | Egyptian Mazes
by Dave Phillips
Kids can solve 36 mazes and learn fascinating facts about Ancient Egypt. Illustrations of Pyramids, Sphinx, pharaohs, gods, mummies, more. Captions and solutions.
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|  | Emanuel Lasker: The Life of a Chess Master
by Dr. J. Hannak
Standard biography of perhaps greatest player of all time: childhood, education, matches against Tarrasch, Marshall, other greats. 100 annotated games. Foreword by Albert Einstein.
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| | Favorite Board Games: You Can Make and Play
by Asterie Baker Provenzo, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games: Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen’s Guard, 35 others. Lexicon, supply list, more.
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| | |  | The Game of Chess
by Siegbert Tarrasch
Classic introduction offers superb coverage of all aspects, especially Middle Game, combination play. Hundreds of games analyzed. Over 340 diagrams.
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| | Go and Go-Moku
by Edward Lasker
Best introduction in English to a great Japanese game. Detailed instructions provide valuable information on basic patterns, strategy, tactics, analyzed games. Used as text by generations of Americans, Japanese. 72 diagrams.
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|  | The Greatest Puzzles of All Time
by Matthew J. Costello
Treasury of challenging brain-teasers by Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck, Henry Dudeney, other masters. Stories behind puzzles, earliest riddles, birth of crossword puzzles, much more. Introduction. 146 illustrations.
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| | Hidden Pictures
by Mike Artell
Carrots, canoes, fishhooks, saws, golf clubs, and a host of other items lurk in the most unlikely places. Solutions included.
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|  | How Karpov Wins: Second, Enlarged Edition
by Edmar Mednis
Revised, enlarged edition of book focusing on Russian chess master's tactics and strategy against Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, Korchnoi, other greats. 100 games analyzed. Over 300 chess diagrams.
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