The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: 100 Brainteasers and Puzzles That Test Your Skills―Using 90 Languages! (Logic Lover’s Puzzle Books)

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“Bellos’ books are packed with games and riddles in different languages―both real and invented―which you don’t necessarily have to speak in order to solve. There are so many word puzzles out there, and there’s surely one for you.”― Popular Science 100 word puzzles that test your logic skills with over 90 languages used around the globe! Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos finds the intrigue―and the human element―in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this brilliant puzzle book is a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language. 125 B&W illustrations and diagrams