The Oxford Guide to Word Games

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"Everything you want to know about man's ageless fascination with word play." Will Weng
"An irresistible collection of verbal ingenuity which will fascinate the experts and start the novices down the slippery road to the Kingdom of Word-dom." Seattle Times
"One of the ten books I'd take if I were to be exiled to a desert island [It's] more fun than a barrel of monkeys a well-organized playground for word games with just the right blend of history, anecdote, asides and examples." St. Petersburg Times
"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
Today's millions of crossword puzzle fans and other word-game addicts will welcome this charming reference work, which encompasses not just crosswords but acrostics, anagrams, word squares. Scrabble, tongue-twisters, and countless other games of verbal ingenuity. The first book to... Tovább

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"Everything you want to know about man's ageless fascination with word play." Will Weng
"An irresistible collection of verbal ingenuity which will fascinate the experts and start the novices down the slippery road to the Kingdom of Word-dom." Seattle Times
"One of the ten books I'd take if I were to be exiled to a desert island [It's] more fun than a barrel of monkeys a well-organized playground for word games with just the right blend of history, anecdote, asides and examples." St. Petersburg Times
"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
Today's millions of crossword puzzle fans and other word-game addicts will welcome this charming reference work, which encompasses not just crosswords but acrostics, anagrams, word squares. Scrabble, tongue-twisters, and countless other games of verbal ingenuity. The first book to delve into the history of man's fascination with word play, it recounts the origins of various word-games, outlines their history, describes how to play them, and discusses the many variant names and rules they have acquired over the years. In addition, the book abounds with anecdotes about famous authors, such as Lewis Carroll, Noel Coward, and Jane Austen, who enjoyed word-games, and sometimes introduced them into their works. Whether one loves riddles, chronograms, or puns, this book will be a source of endless delight and fascination. Vissza