Best Scrabble
It offers more than 5,000 new entries and has more than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words, including variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My son gets to use it, and we don't, so it evens up the play."
"Great gift along side Super Scrabble to keep player on the up and up."
"I'm no expert on Scrabble, but I'm finding this very useful in playing the Lumosity on-line games and keeping on hand when playing Scrabble with grandchildren."
"I teach English to English as a THIRD language and this dictionary makes expanding vocabulary (via scrabble play) extremely fun."
"It has a lot of words to get you out of a sticky situation when you have letters that you are sure you can't use."
"Very nice up to date Scrabble dictionary."
"As an avid player,using a dictionary definitely adds to the game.having gone through several paperbacks i thought. the additional words and hardcover would enhance the experience.Lots of new words makes it more fun."
This large-print paperback SCRABBLE dictionary is the only resource book that millions of players consider necessary. Merriam Webster Inc, Springfield, MA.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My son gets to use it, and we don't, so it evens up the play."
"Great gift along side Super Scrabble to keep player on the up and up."
"I'm no expert on Scrabble, but I'm finding this very useful in playing the Lumosity on-line games and keeping on hand when playing Scrabble with grandchildren."
"I teach English to English as a THIRD language and this dictionary makes expanding vocabulary (via scrabble play) extremely fun."
"It has a lot of words to get you out of a sticky situation when you have letters that you are sure you can't use."
"Very nice up to date Scrabble dictionary."
"As an avid player,using a dictionary definitely adds to the game.having gone through several paperbacks i thought. the additional words and hardcover would enhance the experience.Lots of new words makes it more fun."
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My son gets to use it, and we don't, so it evens up the play."
"Great gift along side Super Scrabble to keep player on the up and up."
"I'm no expert on Scrabble, but I'm finding this very useful in playing the Lumosity on-line games and keeping on hand when playing Scrabble with grandchildren."
"I teach English to English as a THIRD language and this dictionary makes expanding vocabulary (via scrabble play) extremely fun."
"It has a lot of words to get you out of a sticky situation when you have letters that you are sure you can't use."
"Very nice up to date Scrabble dictionary."
"As an avid player,using a dictionary definitely adds to the game.having gone through several paperbacks i thought. the additional words and hardcover would enhance the experience.Lots of new words makes it more fun."
Best Puzzles
Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My son gets to use it, and we don't, so it evens up the play."
"Great gift along side Super Scrabble to keep player on the up and up."
"I'm no expert on Scrabble, but I'm finding this very useful in playing the Lumosity on-line games and keeping on hand when playing Scrabble with grandchildren."
"I teach English to English as a THIRD language and this dictionary makes expanding vocabulary (via scrabble play) extremely fun."
"It has a lot of words to get you out of a sticky situation when you have letters that you are sure you can't use."
"Very nice up to date Scrabble dictionary."
"As an avid player,using a dictionary definitely adds to the game.having gone through several paperbacks i thought. the additional words and hardcover would enhance the experience.Lots of new words makes it more fun."
Best Word Games
Fun for all ages, with categories from Animals to Best Movie Oscar, there are 50 themed 13x13 puzzles included in Volume 1 covering a wide variety of subjects.
Find Best Price at AmazonBest Board Games
Parents Magazine Best Toys of 2014. Dr. Toy's 10 Best Toys of 2014. 2014 Parents' Choice Award – Silver The magic of the New York Times bestseller Press Here is now available in game form! Hervé Tullet is known for his prodigious versatility, from directing ad campaigns to designing fabric for Hermès.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I'd read an interview with him that discussed what he tries to achieve when writing a children's book - "the idea that adults and children should collaborate with the book together, the element of surprise, the connection between abstract and concrete concepts..." In this neat book, he achieves what he sets out to do... it allows your child to feel like a magician, assisted by nothing more than yellow, red and blue dots! Beginning with a simple yellow dot your child presses (which "magically" - via your child pressing it - responds by turning into two yellow dots on the second page), the amount of dots, colors, patterns and sizes of the dots change as the book progresses, with a child learning the meaning of pressing, turning, rubbing, tapping, shaking, tilting, blowing, along with varying degrees of movement (gently, a little bit, a little bit more, hard, a little bit harder, really hard) - and direction (left, right, up, down). Toward the end, your child will be clapping to make the dots larger and larger and LARGER until finally that original one yellow dot (with a white hole in the center) is taking up the entire two page spread... at which point your child's encouraged to "Quick, press the white dot", with the final page showing the original yellow dot and saying, "Bravo!"
"LOL - okay, the wonderful review before mine is so chock full of great information on the book that I don't know how I can compare. Within moments, we were surrounded by every other child in the waiting room as they watched and listened in fasciation. This is truly a wonderful little book that proves imagination is more important and more effective than batteries! I told my daughter that it had been her favorite book when younger, so she asked me to read it to her. She's now shared the book with her kindergarten class and the kids keep asking her to bring it back."
"He calls it his magic color book."
"This book is loved by the whole family and a favorite at bedtime."
"This book is SO stinking adorable!"
"Awesome book!"
"This book is fun."
"It is better for younger kids that are more easily wowed."
Best Crossword Dictionaries
From Jim Carrey to Sister Carrie, Homer Simpson to Homer’s Iliad, the wide-ranging entries include 500,000+ synonyms, 3,000+ literary works, 3,000+ films, 20,000+ famous people from all fields, and more than 50,000 fill-in-the-blank clues so popular in today’s crosswords.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Frequent usage demands a durable binding and the paperback just does not fit the bill and quickly wears out."
"When I first downloaded this book and tried to use it on the Samsung Kindle app I got very frustrated. However I wanted to install it on my Kindle Paperwhite so I purchased it again. This time I find that I can use it on the Samsung Kindle app. I haven't managed to download this to my Kindle, but for the moment, I am well pleased with the tablet app performance."
"The version now shipping has about 1500 entries updated to 2016 at the end, after the XYZ section, which includes sports, movies, politicians (i.e. foreign leaders)."
"Was in great condition for used book and good price with quick shipping."
"I will re-order this 2nd edition because it is so helpful, but it does need an update on content and a hard cover for those of us who work crossword puzzles daily and Saturday and Sunday."
"I originally bought this fro my mother in law who has a stack of crossword dictionaries a mile high."
"It contains everything from every kind of Oscar winner, scads of foreign country info, first and last name entries, phrases with missing words, singers with lists of their hits, movies with complete cast listings and foreign words."
"I've bought it for others as a gift, and the recipients are thrilled with the book. January 2010 update: Having purchased a Kindle, I was excited to get this dictionary on the Kindle, so I wouldn't have to lug out that huge book all the time."
Best Puzzle & Game Reference
The book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource. Merriam Webster Inc, Springfield, MA.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My son gets to use it, and we don't, so it evens up the play."
"Great gift along side Super Scrabble to keep player on the up and up."
"I'm no expert on Scrabble, but I'm finding this very useful in playing the Lumosity on-line games and keeping on hand when playing Scrabble with grandchildren."
"I teach English to English as a THIRD language and this dictionary makes expanding vocabulary (via scrabble play) extremely fun."
"It has a lot of words to get you out of a sticky situation when you have letters that you are sure you can't use."
"Very nice up to date Scrabble dictionary."
"As an avid player,using a dictionary definitely adds to the game.having gone through several paperbacks i thought. the additional words and hardcover would enhance the experience.Lots of new words makes it more fun."
Best Backgammon
In chapter 1 & 2, Beginner level, announcing 12 basic proverbs, which I really hope you will memorize. In chapter 3 & 4, Intermediate level, introducing you to 6 advanced proverbs. Michihito Kageyama: Professional backgammon player ranked number 2 in Giants of Backgammon 2015 Roland Herrera: Professional Violinist and Renaissance Man.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Now how about moves 3, 4, 5... Hit loose, split, run, make a point??? As noted in another review, this book has a unique way of guiding you through the thought process."
"I personally do not care much about the drawings in the book, but it is a good way to decrease the density of the material for the beginners."
"I still believe that you need to memorise opening replies, but this book will help you with the other part of the puzzle – understanding why you make certain moves and the concepts behind them."
"Great tips to help explain why certain moves (mostly in the opening phase) are correct."
"This book is excellent.It is great for all backgammon players beginners and advanced.Easy reading for learning all types of positions.The second book of the series I understand is coming out in March of 2018.Be sure you get that book also.Michi is one of the greatest backgammon players all over the world and I hope that everyone who wants to improve their game reads both books.Thank you,Michi for such a wonderful book."
"i guess i would say 3.5 to 4 stars but to take on such a project and come at the game in a completely new way....That is really giving back to the backgammon community."
"The book’s title says it all, as one of the world’s top players takes the reader through early game checker positions in a unique way that I’ve never seen in any of the more than two dozen backgammon books in my library."
"I also recommend that you enter some of the positions in XG and see how a small changes affect XG's evaluation, for example putting 9 checkers or more into the zone instead of 8 (a central guiding principle in the book) or move builders around (the 9P builder gets lots of attention)."
Best Checkers Game
How to Win at Checkers [Paperback].
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a great book."
"Now that I'm teaching my son the game, I decided to delve into the strategy of checkers - after all, I want my son to win enough times to build his confidence."
"This is the most complete book on checkers you will ever find, in or out of print. The book covers tactics such as traps and shots and then goes on to cover just about every important opening to at least some degree, often with main-lines and numerous variations."
"You get some really nice tips from a pro with this book."
"I found this book to be a very good introduction to checkers."
"This Book on How To Win At Checkers is a great read for a new checkers player at any age."
"Simply the best book there is on checkers IMHO."