puzzles

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Story puzzles

tales in the tangram tradition
1996
A storytelling method using puzzle pieces as the focus of the story to help develop creativity, introduce new and more complex concepts, learning additional skills for memory, analysis, synthesis, and sequencing, and much more.
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Ready player one

In 2044, Wade Watts escapes real life by spending all his time in a virtual utopia known as OASIS. The creator of OASIS hid a series of puzzles based in 1980s pop culture that when unlocked, give the player power and untold wealth. When Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle, thousands race to beat him to the prize, including those willing to murder Wade to win.
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Mighty mini mind bogglers

2012
Presents a collection of math and logic puzzles endorsed by Mensa, a high-IQ organization.
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Secret coders

potions & parameters
Dr. One-Zero won't stop until the whole town--no, the whole world--embraces the "true happiness" found in his poisonous potion, Green Pop. And now that he has the Turtle of Light, he's virtually unstoppable. There's one weapon that can defeat him: another Turtle of Light. Unfortunately, they can only be found in another dimension! To open a portal to this new world, Hopper, Eni, and Josh's coding skills will be put to the test.
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Winterhouse

Elizabeth, eleven, spends Christmas break at Winterhouse hotel under strange circumstances, where she discovers that she has magic, and her love of puzzles helps her solve a mystery.
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Ready player one

In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune.
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The Ambrose deception

2018
Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.
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The skeleton returns

1996
Ten mysteries to solve using your own detective skills.
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Unearthed

Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
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Gnomon

a novel
This virtuosic novel, set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.
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