The puzzles have four levels of difficulty, from one banana to four bananas. There are multiple types of word puzzles, all packed into one little package.Īs the description reads: “ Bananagrams! offers sixteen clever puzzle types, including Banana Trees, where the object is to build word grids based on a theme Banana Splits, a collection of four quick anagram puzzles to be solved in rapid-fire style Banana Leaves, with its four-, five-, six- and seven-letter words Banana Filling-what happens when you add a “K”? and more. Whether or not you’ve played the actual Bananagrams game-and you should because it’s a blast-the book is easy to use and play for everyone. There are so many types to choose from, too: Dot-to-Dot Animals, Dot-to-Dot Mindfulness Mandalas, Dot-to-Dot Butterflies and Blooms, and Star Wars Dot-to-Dot are just a few. When coloring books for grown ups exploded, other “fun” books appeared, including a wide range of connect the dots themes.Ī bonus for many of the dot-to-dot images is that they double as coloring pages. You did these as a kid, but they’ve been growing in popularity for adults over the last few years, too. They also note that, despite the fact there is some math involved, it’s far more about using logic in arranging numbers than it is about having to do a ton of math. The grids come in a variety of shapes and styles.Ī protip from the creators is this: if there are more blanks in the puzzle, it’s likely a more challenging puzzle. Set up in a crossword style grid, the goal is to enter only the numbers 1–9 in the squares so that they add up to the corresponding clues. If you want your puzzles with a small math element, you’ll love Cross Sums. It requires using a set of clues to match up the item on the left with the items on top in the correct manner. I have vivid flashbacks to childhood puzzles with the one pictured on the book’s cover. The collection has 200 grid-based logic puzzles for you to try your hand at, ranging from easy to exceptionally challenging. This is a catch-all category of puzzle books, but perhaps one of the most comprehensive books is Puzzle Baron’s Logic Puzzles.
Readers who love mysteries or crime and love to play along in solving what’s happened will devour logic puzzles. These come in a wide variety of formats, but what they all have in common is they require you to use the most logical thinking patterns you have to find a solution. This means you might share the same invisible “a” or “e” with “Cabbage” with another word which could read forward, backward, sideways, or diagonally. The extra dimension of challenge here is that those vowels which are missing also serve other words. The word might be “Cabbage,” but you have to find “Cbbg” in the diagram. Your challenge is to find the given words within a diagram, but all of those words are missing their vowels in the diagram.
I sought out some other types of puzzles to build a list that helps you find something entirely new (or maybe something you once loved and forgot about in your adulthood!).īest Puzzle Books for Adults Missing VowelsĪfter noting I wasn’t going to include word searches, the first entry in this list is a word search. I’ve not included crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-word, word search, or Soduku puzzle books here, since they’re well-known and common. Too often we think of puzzle books as throwaway things, but the truth is that they can make your brain sharper, more focused, and, well, they’re just fun. These are creative, fun, and encourage you to stretch your mind in different directions. Whether you’re seeking logic puzzle books, visual puzzle books, or word puzzle books, here’s a look at some of the best puzzle books for adults. Crosswords are too challenging for me, and while I enjoy Soduku, sometimes that requires too much energy.īut there is a whole other word of puzzle books out there that are perfect for adults. I tend to go for word searches and once in a great while, a fill-in-the-word. Once in a while I’ll grab one if I’m flying and can’t find anything good to read or if I’m dealing with a rough bout of depression and realize it’s the only way to stimulate my brain to do something. Over the course of my growing up, as much as I’ve loved puzzle books, I’ve fallen away from them.
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