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The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games

200 Brain-Teasers for Puzzlers of All Levels
Introduction by Will Shortz and Robert Mankoff
144 pages
Paperback
ISBN: 1579125530
ISBN13: 9781579125530
$17.95(US) $24.95(CAN)

 

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about the book
The millions of New Yorker cartoon fans (and puzzlers, too) will exult in this ingenious, first-ever collection of puzzles and games that feature the magazine’s cartoons as clues.

Designed to offer a challenge to puzzlers of all levels, this collection of 100 crosswords, acrostics, caption scrambles, observation puzzles, and more is absolutely unique—it’s the first-ever puzzle collection to feature New Yorker cartoons. Presented in an extremely user-friendly oversized spiral format, the book provides hours and hours of interactive entertainment— just bring your own pencil and brain power!

The puzzles themselves are ingenious—new and different kinds of brain-teasers that use the cartoons of The New Yorker in a fresh way, encouraging the agile reader to think like a New Yorker cartoonist. The introduction is a conversation between two masters: the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and the puzzle editor of The New York Times, and it sheds fascinating light on the connection between cartoons and puzzles.
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about Robert Mankoff
Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, the founder and president of The Cartoon Bank, and an accomplished cartoonist. He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist, a book on cartooning and creativity available from BD&L, and the editor of numerous cartoon collections, each of which is a small fraction of the size of this one. He lives in New York City.
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