Sit & Solve Frame Games

by Terry Stickels and Bob Steimle

Nobody knows puzzles better than master creator Terry Stickels, and that's why this collection is pure, unmatched fun. Frame Games are favorites in many newspapers, and they challenge solvers to come... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402711476
• ISBN13: 9781402711473
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Portable Fun!

I just love these puzzles. Terry Stickels Frame Games have been featured in various newspapers and now 159 are gathered in one place in this volume. Shaped like a toilet seat (with the back depicting swirling water, presumably after a flush!), this 96-page book is a great way to challenge the mind and pass the time. Its convenient size lends itself nicely for portability--especially in larger purses, briefcases, and diaper bags! "Frame Games" are pictorial word puzzles. For example, one puzzle features a series of horizontal lines. In bold, the letters NME are at the fore. The answer? "Behind enemy lines". Some puzzles are pretty easy, but others are real stumpers! There's a few I haven't gotten yet, in fact. Rather than read this book all the way through, I pick it up every once in awhile just to solve a few puzzles. For example, earlier this evening I was sitting on the porch with my husband and we were trying to figure out some of the frame games. The answers are on consecutive pages in case you're tempted to peek. I actually wish they were all in the back because it's possible to accidentally see the answers to previous puzzles you may not have solved yet if your eye roams towards the center of the book! Sit & Solve Frame Games is great fun and would make an exceptional gift or stocking-stuffer for hard-to-buy-for folks who tend to enjoy puzzles. And hey! you just can't beat the affordability for this much amusement, either.

Signs of Intelligent Life

Terry and I go back a few years. We're both in the puzzle biz. Terry never ceases to amaze me with his ability to produce book after book of ingenious, visual and rewarding puzzles. They're like taking a Mensa test ... only a whole lot more fun. And to borrow from a popular potato chip slogan, "you can't solve just one!" So if you order this volume, and I hope you do, don't schedule anything important for the day it arrives in the mail.

Fun for All

I picked up this book before going on vacation this summer. It provided hours of fun in the car, around guests' dinner tables, and for my son and his friends at camp. The puzzles range from easy to challenging. I even gave copies as hostess gifts and for a friend undergoing chemotherapy. I will definitely think about this fun and unusual puzzle book for stocking stuffers this holiday season.

Superior Brain Teasers: Low cost for high quantity

Sterling Publishing wisely placed the answers to these 159 teasers parallel to and inconspicuously by the spine of the book. The answer to the teaser on the 4th page is near the spine on the 6th page, etc. You have to go out of your way to find the answers, and this also allowed a very large number of puzzles to be nicely fit into a small, inexpensive book (that just happens to be in the shape of a toilet seat). These types of puzzles are very popular. I have heard them called such things as Punzzles, Thinking Caps, Thinkerobics (in another Terry Stickels book), but Terry has aptly named them Frame Games, due to the nice frames he places them in. Some of the answers will just jump out at you, while others you'll have to dig for. You are sure to pick up a few terms and phrases in the process of tackling these problems. Terry's Frame Games have become famous from his USA Weekend column and elsewhere. Buy this book and enjoy the addiction!