Solve clever clues in over 100 mind-bending puzzles

Fun grids, hidden messages, and entertaining twists that only a top puzzlemaker like Mark Danna could dream up! You’ll find all that right here, in one of the best word search collections ever. It has amazing variety, with grids that form cool pictures (like a rocket ship) to match the puzzle’s theme and extra challenges to add spice to the solving. Some searches contain rebuses to decode; others make you come up with the word list yourself; and all of them contain a secret message! Once you’ve found all the words, read the uncircled letters from left to right, and top to bottom, to spell out a fascinating fact, riddle response, or interesting observation.

Show off your smarts on sports, music, famous people, TV shows, and dozens of other subjects. Try all 56 puzzles and find the hidden words that are written left to right, right to left, up, down, and diagonally. Test your wits on school stuff, camp fun, words with the letter X, horror movies, Internet terminology, outer space, dinosaurs, and more. Each puzzle has a slightly different style, but all come with jokes, little-known facts...and the answers."

Word search puzzles don t get much better than this. Will Shortz, Puzzlemaster for National Public Radio Mark Danna whose earlier Word Search Puzzles for Kids was a huge success has come up with even more smart search challenges to delight brainy youngsters. What makes them so special? First, the letters in every grid form a picture, so instead of ho-hum squares, children get lively shapes. Then, the puzzles feature a few additional twists. Three of the searches don t have word lists, for example; the puzzler has to create them from a series of clues. And finally, each puzzle has a hidden message: once kids have circled all the correct phrases, the uncircled letters will spell out a silly quote, fun fact, or punch line to a punny riddle. "

Every puzzle has a theme and includes a series of related words hidden among a grid of letters. All you have to do is look for them. Are the words spelled vertically, horizontally, or diagonally? Don t forget to check backward as well as forward. Now here are some more words: provoking, stimulating, and entertaining. Together, they describe the awesome puzzles in this collection."

Mark Danna knows how to create puzzle challenges that children find irresistible. That s why Word Search Puzzles for Kids, as well as his other collections, sold 149,700 copies. Now, he s serving up his sixth helping of ingeniously designed and wildly imaginative word searches that smart youngsters will snap up. Each fun grid is a picture (not a ho-hum square) based on the puzzle s theme, including one shaped like a unicorn for a Fantastic Creatures search. There are rebuses, too, searches where kids have to make up the word list from clues, and puzzles with extra-special, tricky twists. The icing on the cake: each word search contains a hidden message that youngsters can only decipher after they ve completed the grid. "

There are ordinary word searchesand then there are these created especially for kids by Mark Danna. What makes them special? For starters, many of them have shapes that relate to their themes: a penguin, a rocket ship, a wedding cake, a volcano, or some other appealing design. For another, some of them contain rebuses (example: in Auto Focus, the letters C-A-R appear as a little car). Best of all, every one of the 52 puzzles delivers a hidden payoff: After all the hidden words and phrases have been correctly circled, the remaining letters spell out a fascinating fact, a wacky joke, a tongue twister, or something else guaranteed to raise a smile. A surefire hit for kids who enjoy a challenge."