Book Description
Are you a crossword fan? With the premiere of Wordplay, a documentary about crossword puzzles, legendary New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz, and the legions of dedicated solvers, heres your chance to become a part of the puzzle craze!
Customer Reviews:
Terrific! Fabulous!.......2007-05-08
This companion book to the film available on DVD adds so much value to the film that it is an absolute must! Although I'd suggest not worth buying if you haven't seen the film and don't intend buying the DVD, as throughout it depends absolutely on a knowledge of references to the film. I'd advise buying both even if you haven't heard of the film! Great value, on a subject so rarely covered in this manner. Even if you've seen the film, the DVD is worth buying just for the extras! And the book is worth buying because you won't be able to absorb all the good stuff from the film alone; you will get an extra insight into so much of the film. I consider we're really fortunate the producers of the film have done so much for us in producing this book!
Treasure trove of interesting crosswords.......2007-01-21
Wordplay is the companion book to the 2006 documentary of the same name. It was written by Christine O'Malley and Patrick Creadon, respectively the movie's producer and director. Will Shortz,the crossword editor of the New York Times (and "the Errol Flynn of crossword puzzling" according to Jon Stewart), contributes a foreword, and the book features interviews with a number of people who appeared in the film--crossword constructors and celebrity cruciverbalists and contestants in the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. The book's 12 brief chapters include a thumbnail history of crossword puzzles and discussions of, among other topics, Will Shortz's tenure at the Times, crossword puzzle construction, and the 2006 Sundance Film Festival at which the documentary premiered. I have not yet seen the movie, so I can't say for certain how much of the information in the book rehashes what appears on film, but much of it appears to be new--a number of those featured in the book discuss their reaction to seeing the film, for example, and crossword constructor Merl Reagle writes about the process of creating a puzzle for the film.
The text of the book reads very quickly, but finishing the 50 puzzles that are included in Wordplay will be the work of weeks, if not months. And it's the puzzles, for each of which a little background is supplied, that make Wordplay a book you'll want to own. Among the crosswords included in the book are:
* The first puzzle Will Shortz published in the New York Times
* The first puzzle Shortz edited for the Times--a puzzle which, we're told, "caused quite a stir, because it couldn't be completely solved with an ordinary pencil"
* The first crossword puzzle ever published (in 1913)
* Samples of puzzles edited by Shortz's three predecessors at the Times, Margaret Farrar, Will Weng, and Eugene Maleska
* The "Wordplay" puzzle that was created for and featured in the movie
* The 1998 puzzle, "Engagement," which was written for Manhattan attorney Bill Gottlieb and concealed in its answers Bill's marriage proposal to his girlfriend
* The ingenious Clinton/Dole puzzle that was published on Election Day in 1996
* The eight puzzles that contestants were set at the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, with directions for scoring your solution
Plus a lot more. In short, the book is a treasure trove of historically interesting puzzles. If you've been solving the New York Times puzzle religiously for decades, you may have seen all of this before. But for many of us relative newcomers to cruciverbalism, Wordplay is a great source for some of the best puzzles ever constructed.
Debra Hamel -- author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece (Yale University Press, 2003)
Delightful, intelligent, curiosity-satisfying.......2006-09-09
What an enjoyable book! It is so intelligently done, and provides so many satisfying answers for this curious reader. It is not a book version of the movie, nor is it an advertisement for the movie.
It is truly _complimentary to_ the movie. Everything in the book should be interesting to anyone who would be interested in the movie, and vice versa, but there is practically no overlap.
It is almost as if the filmmakers gathered and organized the material that they thought would be interesting to people who like crossword puzzles, and sorted it out into two piles, one labelled "cinematic" and one labelled "literary" (or "cruciverbal?"), and made the movie using the material in one pile and the book using the material in the other.
It illustrates the different editing styles by showing puzzles edited by Margaret Farrar, Will Weng, Eugene Maleska, and Will Shortz. It illustrates the ascending difficulty level by giving New York Times puzzles from Monday through Sunday. (I'm not a puzzle fanatic, I'd always assumed the Sunday puzzle was the _hardest_).
It gives a number of examples of some puzzles that champion solvers and enthusiasts considered their favorites. And I like them, too. In a way this book is a "best crossword puzzles"--as chosen by the people you saw in the movie.
It also gives you a chance to solve the puzzles that flashed by in the movie, including the "Wordplay" puzzle itself, and the puzzles that Ellen Ripstein solved to win the championship.
It gives information on how people construct puzzles, and what the rules for a properly constructed puzzle are considered to be. It gives directions for submitting puzzles to the Times--even telling us that the Times pays $135 for a daily puzzle, and $700 for a Sunday puzzle.
I think that anyone who enjoys crosswords would enjoy this book regardless of whether or not they had not seen the movie, although of course the book makes you want to see the movie (and vice versa).
GREAT book..........2006-09-07
This book has lotsa puzzles and is very informative. Merl Reagle's explanation of Making a Crossword Puzzle was an eye-opener. These geniuses explain things like the, ahem, common folk could do same. RAVE review for this great companion book.
If you liked the movie.............2006-09-01
Then you know what to expect from the book and of course you want it.
Book Description
Take a second look at the cover of this book—this time, turn it upside down. The title, Wordplay, is an ambigram, which means you will be able to read it both right side up and upside down.
You may be familiar with the John Langdon’s ambigrams from Dan Brown’s bestseller Angels & Demons (see pages 186 and 188 of Wordplay), but if this is your first experience with the art of the ambigram, prepare to be dazzled! This lovely updated edition of the classic collection of ambigrams features a section of full-color ambigrams and dozens of stunning, mind-bending examples of this cryptic art form. Each strikingly beautiful and arresting illustration is accompanied by a short essay—sometimes serious, sometimes witty—to delight your brain as much as your eyes. Taken together, the art and the essays show how the very shape of letters can change our idea of words and their meanings. As Dan Brown says in the Foreword of this revised edition, John Langdon brilliantly rearranges the familiar, casting it in a new light.
Both playful and profound, Wordplay will challenge you to take a second look at your world.
Customer Reviews:
The best of the best.......2007-09-03
John Langdon is probably the best ambigram artist ever. In addition to being extremely creative and an out-of-the-box thinker, Langdon is a superlative graphic artist, and this book is chock full of his designs. Highly recommended.
Ambigrams are Fun.......2006-11-18
It should be noted that the text "wordplay" on the cover of the book is itself an ambigram. Turn it upside-down and it will read the same as right-side-up. You'll find dozens of examples of ambigrams that the author has patiently created.
I've always had an interest in calligraphy and different typefaces. John Langdon's Wordplay allows the reader to look at this from a different point of view, and brings insight into how he goes about creating his intriguing ambigrams. It should appeal to the type of person who likes visual riddles or illusions. I first learned about the author's work through Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, which features several of Langdon's ambigrams. I'm glad I purchased the book and love looking through it. Recommended.
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WordPlay Cafe: Cool Codes, Priceless Punzles & Phantastic Phonetec Phun (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
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Customer Reviews:
Fun for all ages.......2007-01-22
As mentioned in the previous reviews this book is for the entire family and for all ages. My three-year-old daughter loves the illustrations in the book and wants us to read the book to her. So with a little tweaking she enjoys the book and participating in word play with us. Michael Kline's creativity is incredible. This book will not only improve your verbal skills but also your visual imagination. If you have never had a creative block this book with certainly help you out. I use some of the word games in my classes to increase my student's abilities to visually communicate.
Fun and Engaging .......2005-12-13
Michael Kline has hit the hail on the nead with WordPlay Cafe. It's an invitation to look at and practice language in a completely different way. It takes some practice but I guarantee, once you let the imagination go, you will want to keep delving into the world of wordplay and punzles!
A Feast for Young Verbivores.......2005-11-19
In WordPlay Cafe Michael Kline's banquet of word fun and lively illustrations guarantee a feast of food for thought. This guy Kline says a mouthful. He knows language and he knows how to make children want to eat their words.
-- Richard Lederer, author of Pun & Games and The Circus of Words
Words-A-Go-Go.......2005-11-01
First there were words. Then the words were made fun. And in Wordplay Cafe author Mike Kline shows you, oh so successfully, how to make more fun with words. This interactive book teaches kids of all ages the power of words and ways to be creative with their meanings and sounds. It's a great way for kids and parents to have quality time with each other.
Mary K. Baumann and Will Hopkins
Art Directors, Kids Discover magazine
New York, NY
Fun for the entire family.......2005-10-31
Kline has a wonderful sense of humour that can be appreciated by any age group. He really challenges kids (and adults) to look at language in a different way - the fun way! The book reads like a rollercoaster ride...or maybe a better analogy would pinball machine: it bounces off topics and tangents in a delightfully free-wheeling manner. Not for ADD kids, this book is meant for children who are willing to engage with subject matter for a wonderful reward. Kline's book belongs in the category of "children's books" the way that Bloom County belonged in the same comics section of the paper with Funky Winkerbean and Family Circus. This book truly works best when the whole family joins in on the fun. The activities are perfect for getting fun discussions going between children and adults. A highly recommended read for anyone (at any age) who wants to re-discover language and have fun along the way.
Book Description
This critically acclaimed collection of word puzzles ranging from satisfyingly simple to fiendishly difficult will challenge and delight would-be word wizards. Word Melt, Scramblegrams, Word Hunter, Crossed Words and Word Blocks puzzles are presented one to a page, but the puzzler has more to do than just fill in the blanks. Many of the puzzles have more than one solution, and the puzzler gets points depending on how many steps it takes to arrive at the answer.
Recent scientific research recommends that people play challenging games to keep their minds sharp. These books are personal trainers for the hungry hordes of fanatic puzzlers.
Customer Reviews:
It's good if you like Scrabblegrams.......2005-07-09
I wanted to get a book with word and number puzzles, like the crossword number puzzles (sorry don't know the names). This book sounded interesting, but 98% of it was scrabblegrams (I must've missed where it said that). I like puzzle books with different games, not just the same ones over and over. It has a few word searches but they're so simple.. no brain work in it at all. And the mistakes!! In a word search, an entire line was missing! And in a bunch of scrabblegrams, the bottom line circles were either in the wrong place, or not there at all. Just a lot of careless errors. I wouldn't recommend it.
If you're a Smart Games fan..........2004-06-30
...then you should buy this book! It has puzzles similar to those found in Smart Games Word Puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult. I really appreciated the spiral bound format, which makes it so much easier to do puzzles.
About the CD-Rom -- it contains puzzles that already appear on the Smart Games Word Puzzles CD, only less of them (this came straight from Smart Games Tech Support), so if you're looking for more games on CD-Rom, you won't find them here. But this would be a great way to introduce a fellow puzzle fan to the world of Smart Games!
Brain workout.......2004-04-18
In the introduction to this puzzle book, the editors of Smart Games, Inc. say that when it comes to your mental acuity, you must use it or lose it. This collection of word puzzles is intended to help you with your mental exercises. As a more difficult companion to the Mind Marathon volume, this Wizard Workout volume has four types of puzzles to solve:
- Scramblegrams, where you unscramble words in themed sets
- Word melt, which is a word ladder where you replace between one and six letters at a time to change from the starting word to the ending word. When you tackle the longer letter variants, you will find them fiendlishly difficult
- Word blocks, where you arrange two or three letter blocks to form words, using each block only once
- Word hunt, which is a word search grid where you locate themed words hidden in any direction in the grid, including in a snaking path
The puzzles range from easy to very difficult. There's not much variety here compared to other word puzzle books, though, so I give it only 3 stars. The book is spiral bound to lie flat while you solve. A CD ROM is included with bonus word puzzles to solve.
Eileen Rieback
Book Description
Wordplay is a book of ambigrams words that can be read from more then one point of view. But these are not just any words. They are carefully chosen to communicate principles of western physics and eastern philosophy, with some language history and good old puns, just for fun. It adds up to an entertaining experience in the visual treatment of words visual poetry almost and a thorough, if indirect, education in the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism.
Customer Reviews:
As if sketches in GEB were not amazing enough ...........2004-03-17
Were you amazed by the sketches and diagrams by Scott Kim and Hofstadter in "Godel Escher Bach" ? If yes, this book will amaze you even further. And the "reflections" are no less philosophical!
Just a thought........2004-02-19
Although I have not read this book, I was introduced to it on author Dan Brown's website. He has written a book entitled
"Angels&Demons" and it deals quite a bit with ambigrams. If you are intrested in ambigrams(as well as history, the Vatican, the Illuminati, or any thriller story) I would strongly recomend that you read "Angels&Demons".
A surprising book!.......2001-07-12
I definitely recommand it to any Graphic Designer, Artist, Art Student, or just Art Lover! It's a completely different way to look at things...
TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE - DOWN.......2001-02-13
Want to stretch your imagination? Get Wordplay and you'll never look at words the same again! John Langdon's intriguing ability with ambigrams will astound you. I find myself picking up my copy time and time again. Wordplay is a great conversation piece... worthy of a place of honor on any coffee table.
AMBIGRAMS and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams.......2000-06-26
Graphic thrills, wordplay and cosmic philosophy. This book is packed with the author's history of discovery of calligraphic possibilities, an reflections on similar structural themes. If you like Escher, you will enjoy Langdon.
Book Description
This critically acclaimed collection of word puzzles ranging from satisfyingly simple to fiendishly difficult will challenge and delight would-be word wizards. Word Melt, Scramblegrams, Word Hunter, Crossed Words and Word Blocks puzzles are presented one to a page, but the puzzler has more to do than just fill in the blanks. Many of the puzzles have more than one solution, and the puzzler gets points depending on how many steps it takes to arrive at the answer.
Recent scientific research recommends that people play challenging games to keep their minds sharp. These books are personal trainers for the hungry hordes of fanatic puzzlers.
Customer Reviews:
Exercise your mind.......2004-04-18
In the introduction to this puzzle book, the editors of Smart Games, Inc. say that when it comes to your mental acuity, you must use it or lose it. This collection of word puzzles is intended to help you with your mental exercises. There are four types of puzzles in the collection:
- Scramblegrams, where you unscramble words in themed sets
- Word melt, which is a word ladder where you replace one or two letters at a time to change from the starting word to the ending word
- Word blocks, where you arrange 2 letter blocks to form letters, using each block only once
- Word hunt, which is a word search grid where you locate themed words hidden in any direction in the grid, including in a snaking path
The puzzles range from easy to hard. There's not much variety here compared to other word puzzle books, though, so I give it only 3 stars. The book is spiral bound to lie flat while you solve. A CD ROM is included with bonus word puzzles to solve.
Eileen Rieback
Book Description
For more than forty years, millions of readers have delighted in solving Jumble, the scrambled word game. Syndicated in nearly five hundred daily newspapers, Jumble is surely the most recognizable puzzle in the world. So hop aboard the Jumble train with the newest Jumble book, and prepare for hours of puzzling fun!
Book size is 8 1/2" x 11."
Customer Reviews:
Jumble Junction provides hours of challening fun!.......2000-03-26
For fans of jumble mania, this collection of puzzles is a must purchase. The puzzle selections provide hours of intrigue and adventure. This book is a real challenge to the avid jumble-junkie.
Book Description
The Dictionary of Wordplay is the first dictionary of wordplay, ever. Poet Dave Morice, author of The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet and How to Make Poetry Comics and longtime editor of the “Kickshaws” column of Word Ways magazine, is uniquely qualified to show us the whole spectrum of the expansive field of wordplay. The more than 1,500 entries in The Dictionary of Wordplay range from literary forms such as the acrostic and the Exquisite Corpse to well-known forms such as palindromes, spoonerisms, and anagrams to the numerical science of word squares and lettershifts. From these the reader moves on to such esoteric and fascinating forms as the Timely neologism, the Goldwynism, the backward multiple charade, the palindddrome challenge, the bananagram, the vocabularyclept poem, the Tom Swiftie, the Herman, and the Seven Seas. An invaluable reference for teachers, students, writers, librarians, and anyone who loves language, The Dictionary of Wordplay is also an endlessly enjoyable read. As well as going from A to Z, Morice provides a thorough overview of wordplay in his Introduction, and the book contains an annotated bibliography.
Customer Reviews:
The 'Must-Have' Dictionary of Wordplay.......2001-07-30
Dave Morice's latest book, The Dictionary of Wordplay (Teachers & Writers), is his seventeenth published effort to paint the alphabetic rainbow of the amazing English language. Previous works include eleven volumes of poetry, four books on wordplay and writing, three on cartooning, and a book on computers.
Why a dictionary of wordplay?
"Wordplay is always just a word or two away from the words we speak, hear, read, and write," Morice writes in the introduction to his dictionary. "It is present in the home, the school, the office, the store, the streets. It's on television all the time, especially on ABC."
He got the idea for a wordplay dictionary while editing the "Kickshaws" column for Word Ways magazine. The more familiar Morice became with contemporary wordplay, the more it seemed inevitable that he should write a dictionary. Surprised none had been compiled, he morphed the appendix to his doctoral dissertation-"Wordplay in Children's Picture Books"-into an appendix of wordplay terms that eventually grew into a full-blown dictionary.
With the recent publication of The Dictionary of Wordplay, Morice has given life to an astounding work. Indeed, The Times Literary Supplement of London, in a rare burst of approval, calls it "The most ingenious publication of the century so far" (TLS, March 23, 2001).
The Dictionary of Wordplay is for all lovers of language. For die-hard crossword puzzle workers, jumble fanatics, or Scrabble players as well as writers, educators, and linguistics, it's a "must-have" for the home or office reference shelf. Here are some samples from the 1,234 entries:
· Charade: A set of words formed by re-spacing-but not rearranging-the letters of another word, phrase, or sentence:
BEDEVIL = BED + EVIL PLEASURE = PLEA + SURE CRUMBLED = CRUMB + LED CHICAGO = CHIC + AGO
·Exquisite Corpse: Three or four players write an article and an adjective on a sheet of paper and then fold the paper to cover the words. The players exchange papers, add a noun to the new paper, and fold the paper again. They repeat this procedure with a verb and then with another article and adjective, and they finish with another noun. The results are read aloud to general bafflement.
·Hidden Middle Name or Overlapping Word: Take a person's first and last name and see if the letters join in the middle to form another name or word: oMAR SHArif, daLE Evans, ezRA Pound, and hORATIO Nelson
·TWENTY NINE: Write out the number 29 in capital letters: TWENTY NINE. Then count the number of straight lines in the number's name. It's the only number that counts the straight lines in its name. There are 29!"
A native of St. Louis, Dave Morice lives in Iowa City, where he earned an M.F.A at the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is presently at work on the ever-expanding second edition to The Dictionary of Wordplay as well as The Dictionary of Incredible Words. His poems and cartoons have appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Word Ways, and The Actualist Anthology. Such disparate publications as the Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal have featured him and his work.
Lovers of word games and other forms of word and letter play should also check out Morice's Alphabet Avenue: Wordplay In The Fast Lane (Chicago Review Press)-353 pages of palindromes, word and letter puzzles, anagrams, panagrams, and puns-and The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet (Teachers & Writers), which presents 104 unusual ways to write poetry in the class and the community.
--James Denigan, freelance writer
A smorgasbord of language.......2001-07-20
The dictionary of wordplay is a totally different kind of dictionary. You can read it at any point and discover something you didn't know about language. It's more fun to jump around in it instead of gulping it down all of it at once. It is like a smorgasbord with many, many different types of food. You will get to sample such delicacies as bananagrams, flip-flop definitions, hyperhyphenation, Kangaroo words, no-word alphabets, Romantic numbers, sex change charades, stinky buzzwords, truthful numbers, and zazzification. I specially enjoyed searching for other kinds of palindromes ( my favorite since I first heard about them from a teacher in grade school), because they appear in different places as well as under a palindrome.
how do words play?.......2001-06-07
Reading a dictionary may not sound like a lot of fun, but this is a book you can pick up & start reading anywhere. Morice appeals on many levels, but behind it all is the way that he is thoroughly enjoying himself & his work. The perfect book to read during lunch hour on an impossible day or to keep on hand as a mental pick me up. A reference book written by a gifted story teller.
The Dictionary of Wordplay rates an A!.......2001-04-03
This is the world's first dictionary of wordplay terms. It covers everything from abbreviated rhyme to z times 43. Do you want to know what superultramegalosesquipedalia is? Look it up here. Hint: it's longer than you might think. Learn about the famous zzyxjoanw hoax. I highly recommend this book for anyone who treasures words and likes to play with them.
Customer Reviews:
Challenging, Professional Crossword Puzzles.......2000-06-20
This crossword book is very professional, and a great pass-time for advanced solvers and novices alike. Each crossword has its own theme, guiding the solver in the right direction for each answer. Very easy to read. Recommended for all crossword lovers.
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Wordplay Crosswords (Mensa)
Richard Silvestri
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A former editor of Crossword magazine who has constructed more than 500 published puzzles takes crosswords to a new, extra-entertaining, and more challenging level. Richard Silvestri, a self-confessed wordplay addict, adds a little spice to the solving by inserting puns, anagrams, and other linguistic trickery into the clues and their answers. Some of the crosswords feature homophones, others include heteronyms, and still more have letter-shifts and transposals. For example, a puzzle called Give It a Wrest features lots of silent-W puns: Extremely good craftsman? = DIVINE WRIGHT; Chief towel-twister? = LORD OF THE WRINGS; and Gun moll’s shawl? = GANGSTER WRAP. Puzzlemeisters will have lots of fun with these.
The author lives in Valley Stream, NY.
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