Wordle Obsessed? Puzzles, Books, and More

Take your chess game to the next level with this exciting and approachable guide for intermediate players from YouTube’s top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess). This comprehensive guide teaches you everything you need to know to transform your approach to chess and elevate your gameplay as you face more challenging opponents. Whether you’re aiming to defeat your friends or become a Grandmaster, How to Win at Chess, Next Level is guaranteed to enrich your understanding of the game and elevate your skills!

Get a daily dose of mental exercise with Word Search Puzzles for Brain Fitness, a 90-day challenge of word search puzzles that progress in difficulty. Some words will be easier to spot, while others will be harder to find! With fun themes to keep you engaged and bonus puzzles to keep your good habit going, you’ll marvel at the growth in your processing skills, concentration, and vocabulary in just three short months.

Newly out on the marriage scene, Emma is seeking a perfect match. Professional matchmaker and general busybody Mrs. Elizabeth Godwin needs your help to identify the best potential suitor from 6,400 eligible bachelors in her unrivalled directory. You must consider a list of factors in order to find the right gentleman for Emma. Test your powers of logic and deduction with this addictive elimination puzzle. Can you lead Emma to her true love? Or will you match her with a terrible bore?

For millions of people, the New York Times crossword puzzles are as essential to each day as the first cup of coffee in the morning. With each day of the week, the puzzles increase gradually in skill level; Monday’s the easiest, but Saturday’s sure to challenge! Push your mental muscles a little harder each day with America’s favorite sophisticated — and fun — pastime: The New York Times crossword puzzles!

Just hours before he was set to testify at a public hearing that could decide the future of his Montana ranch, legendary cattleman Cole Cassidy was silenced. Somewhere inside Cole Cassidy’s ranch ledger are the answers to an entire murder case … One killer. Five possible weapons. Five possible crime scenes. Three hidden leads. And 50,000 names standing between you and the truth …

Want to get your frontal cortex breaking a sweat? Make your blood pump to your cerebellum? Stretch your occipital lobe to its limits? Then you need to bend your brain! This first book from the team behind Marbles: The Brain Store offers puzzles and brain teasers to help enhance memory, build problem-solving skills, and reduce stress.

You arrive at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manner, where you find the body of a local businessman on the lawn. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. You quickly realize that the balcony can only be accessed through a locked door — and the key is missing … Test your sleuthing skills to see if YOU have what it takes to uncover what each suspect is hiding. There are dozens of pathways to pursue: Will your choices catch the killer — or will they be your downfall?

What makes puzzles — jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus — so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs — four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder — set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. Check out this article all about puzzles from Jacobs!

Have fun with words and fill in your beehive with this twist on bingo from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, for players age seven and up. With ten beehive-shaped bingo boards, 80 hexagon tokens, 150 double-sided calling cards, and multiple fun variations, up to 10 players can enjoy this fast-paced game as they try to spell, define, and use words in a sentence to fill up their board. The compact size makes Scripps National Spelling Bee Bingo easy to pack for a fun adventure and the perfect addition to any family game night.

From the daughter-father duo that created Brooklyn’s beloved live pun competition, this “punderful card game” (Mashable) is perfect for friends and families. One part game, one part conversation starter, you don’t need to be a pun master to master Punderdome: The goal is to make bad jokes and have fun along the way!

Doing crosswords is a fantastic way to stay mentally fit and expand your knowledge. With 100 easy- to medium-level puzzles in a minimalist, stylish design, this crossword collection is perfect for anyone looking for a fun way to stimulate their brain!

Unleash your inner detective with this book of 130+ crime-themed puzzles and trivia quizzes — a unique gift for any true crime fan. Immerse yourself in art heists and abductions, cults and criminal trials, murders and unsolved mysteries — all while cracking word searches, solving sudoku, decoding cryptograms, and more.

Decode messages, untangle clues, and test your logic with 134 addictive and exciting Murdle-style puzzles based on 500 years of British espionage history, from Britain’s preeminent puzzle master with the support of The National Archives, UK. With puzzles across an array of difficulty levels, alongside photographs of the real papers, cyphers, and spies from throughout British history, Spydle is a must-have activity book for the spy, sleuth, and mystery lover in all of us.

Welcome to The Penguin Sudoku Challenge: With 1 sudoku puzzle for every day of the year 2 challenge you in every way on 3 different levels — beginner, moderate, and fist-clenchingly tricky. Perfect 4 sharpening your brain and honing your logic, sudoku will give you a 5 star brain (if they don’t hit you for 6). In 7th heaven when you complete them, you’ll 8 giving up on any of these — but those 9 by nines won’t complete themselves … Good luck!

Prove that you’re the ultimate language buff in this delightful trivia-based card game for word lovers. Each of the 175 cards contains a single trivia question related to word spelling, origins, and meanings, as well as testing your knowledge of synonyms, homonyms, and other language minutia. Play a game for two or invite up to six players to join in the fun, this game is the perfect choice for word and language lovers everywhere.

Every letter counts in a game of Rewordable! Each of the 120 cards has been selected for optimal word crafting. Build a new word and be rewarded — or add to other players’ words to steal their points. Create the largest lexicon of words by the end of the game to become the Rewordable champion. Happy word-making!

Unusual puzzles challenge puzzlers of all skill levels to condition their grey matter and flex their mental agility. Featuring 156 unique visual puzzles!