Put on your thinking cap and treat yourself to a collection of rebus puzzles that ask you to combine words, pictures, and letters to produce an answer. The clever riddles will have you puzzling over images of a dotted lion, the U.S. Mint, a panda chomping on dollar bills, and 43 other mystifying graphics.
Sam Loyd's Best Picture Puzzles by Sam Loyd More than 200 witty rebus puzzles and other stimulating guessing games. These classic brain-ticklers appeal to puzzle-lovers of all ages, with hours of amusing challenges to the skills of recall, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Hidden Pictures by Larry Daste Loads of brain-teasing diversions for older children and fun-loving adults in 24 pages of cleverly hidden objects — all identified in a caption beneath each charmingly rendered picture.
Hidden Picture Challenge by Stephen Stanley Challenging visual puzzles ask players to locate cowboy hats lost on a windy day, find an ice cream cone, straw hat, and sunglasses lost in a snowbound landscape, and more. 24 puzzles.
Kids' Kakuro by John Pazzelli, Diana Zourelias Also known as "cross sums," this Japanese puzzle sensation is as popular as sudoku. Designed especially for kids, these 48 kakuro puzzles feature whimsical illustrations. Solutions included.
Hidden Picture Mania by Dover This gigantic collection features 72 full-page illustrations of common items concealed in unlikely places. Sharp-eyed sleuths of every age will welcome the challenge of detecting the objects that transform these scenes from real to surreal.
Knock Knock Jokes by Victoria Fremont Sixty illustrated knock-knock gems, carefully selected to appeal to all ages, provide jokesters with all the ammunition they need to regale friends and relatives.