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Word Salad : A Fresh Take on Your Daily Word Search - Mark Wainwright

Mark Wainwright

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  • Pages · 320 pages
  • Publication Date · 03/09/2026
  • Genre · Crosswords
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FROM THE ADDICTIVE ONLINE DAILY WORD SEARCH PUZZLECan you find the hidden words? Word Salad is a delicious combination of challenging fun and tricky brainteasers, designed to test your general knowledge. With over 250 brand new Word Salad puzzles mixed with a fiendish and highly original crossword-clue style quiz, this book offers the perfect way to escape your screens and have some challenging fun using just your wit and a pencil. The puzzles have all been devised by two childhood friends and obsessive puzzlers, Samuel and Mark. Each puzzle includes a four-by-four grid of letters that spell words relating to a theme, ranging from art and literature to popular culture, geography to the natural world, food and drink to daily life. The magic of Word Salad is that the answers are right there in front of you, obvious once you've found them, but gloriously frustrating when you haven't.

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