Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today's movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don't even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the quote and its source. You'll have fun, even as you learn. Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.

A book of fifty smart and diverting acrostics reveal wise and whimsical sayings about lessons learned along the road of life or the value of experience.

Fifty challenging acrostic puzzles constructed from thought-provoking quotes, with clues covering subjects from the classics to pop culture. Everything comes together in these acclaimed, wide-ranging confections for the mind. Praise for the first edition from Amazon reviews: A great new volume of acrostic puzzles If you're a confirmed acrostaholic like I am, you'll love Michael's puzzles... Perfect for solving on leisurely Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee -- or three... - Cynthia Morris, Author of "American Acrostics" and "Kids' Krostics" Good collection of acrostic puzzles - Acrostic puzzle books seem to be increasingly rare, and this is a good addition to what's available ...this collection will appeal to acrostic addicts of all levels of skill. - Phelps Gates Well worth purchasing - Very clever acrostics with varied themes ...fine for acrostic connoisseurs - Joan I. Andon The second edition contains the same puzzles as the first; one of the answer keys has been corrected.

They look like crosswords, but don't be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn't stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, Rawhide, and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you really know about music, history, geography, and even mythology. Break free from the standard word puzzle and tackle the twofold challenge of acrostics for an enlightening change of pace.

Try your hand at 100 of the most difficult acrostic puzzles ever created. These mind-benders are witty, chock-full of clues and, unlike other puzzles, cannot be solved alone. Answers cover the world of knowledge: history, geography, science, literature -- you name it Figuring out the puzzles will call for you to look up definitions, locate the author of quotations, decipher wordplays and rhymes -- and those are just the easy ones. The key to unriddling the Uprights can be found in the Lights. Here is where the combined clues come together to help you solve the acrostic. You won't be cheating if you surround yourself with mounds of reference books. Here is an example: Uprights -- Table Tennis Light 1: The Father Of Alexander The Great Light 2: Othello's Ancient Light 3: The Discoverer Of The Laws Of Gravitation Light 4: A Substitute For The Dinner BellThe first and last letters of the Lights give you the Uprights: P...P, I...0, N...N, and G...G, Ping-Pong a synonym for table tennis. Alexander's father was Philip, Othello's ancient is Iago, Newton was the discoverer of the laws of gravitation, and the dinner bell substitute is a gong. Easy, huh? Wait until the literary allusions become obscure, the phrasing ambiguous, and the choice of synonyms complicated. That's when the real fun begins

If You Like Crossword Puzzles, You'll Love Acrostics Selected by former USA Today crossword puzzle editor Charles Preston, these 50 favorite acrostics reveal wise and witty sayings on topics from business and humor to life and nature. Crack the clues in the word column; transfer them to the diagram; and discover quotations from people like Robert Benchley, Erma Bombeck, Rachel Carson, Carrie Fisher, Henry David Thoreau, and more. Includes 50 favorite puzzles on topics including "About Dressing Up," "Deep Sea Fact" "Desert Wonder," "Priorities in Life," and "Racing Time."