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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| What You're Not to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Working with Word Searches | |
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| Starting with Straightforward Puzzles | |
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| Moving On to Complex Puzzles | |
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| Hints and Answers | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Working with Word Searches | |
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| Hunting through the World of Word Searches | |
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| Word Searches at a Glance | |
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| Using Word Searches to Keep Your Mind Sharp | |
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| Understanding dementia | |
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| Considering the importance of mind puzzles and games | |
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| A Fun Romp through Word Search History | |
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| Perfecting Your Puzzle-Solving Strategies | |
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| Solving Word Searches | |
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| Gathering your equipment | |
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| Marking the words | |
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| Tackling the grid | |
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| Moving Past Word Searches: Anagrams and Other Word Games | |
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| Understanding anagrams | |
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| Anagramming tricks | |
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| Rearranging letters for tile games | |
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| Baffl ing letter squares | |
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| Staying alive in Hangman | |
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| Starting with Straightforward Puzzles | |
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| Trying Your Hand at Simple Word Searches | |
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| Reading up on Story Word Searches | |
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| Finding Hidden Words in Your Puzzles | |
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| Solving Secret Shapes | |
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| Moving On to Complex Puzzles | |
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| Gathering Your Wits for Scrambled Searches | |
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| Are You Ready for Some Quiz Words? | |
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| Taking the Quiz | |
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| Turning to the Grid | |
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| Solving Secret List Word Searches | |
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| Weaving Your Way through Winder Words | |
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| Discovering Anagrams and Other Word Games | |
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| Hints and Answers | |
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| Helpful Hints to Keep You Going | |
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| Understanding the Grid Coordinate System | |
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| The Answers You Seek | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Letter-Pattern Tips | |
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| Letters by Frequency | |
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| Common First Letters | |
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| Common Last Letters | |
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| Follow Me: Common Letter Sequences | |
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| Two's Company: Digraphs | |
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| Make That Three: Trigraphs | |
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| Double the Fun: Double Letters | |
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| Common Prefixes | |
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| Common Suffixes | |
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| Common Consonant Patterns at the Beginnings of Words | |
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| Ten Benefi ts of Doing Word Searches | |
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| They're Portable Boredom-Busters | |
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| They Keep Your Brain Active | |
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| They Increase Your Vocabulary | |
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| They Help You Learn New Languages | |
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| They Help You Gather Knowledge in a Way that Makes Sense to You | |
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| They Let You Relax and Have Fun | |
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| They Sharpen Your Spelling Skills | |
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| They Train Your Brain to Recognize Patterns | |
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| They Help You Overcome Insomnia | |
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| They're a Way to Spend Quality Time with the Family | |
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| Ten Steps to Help You Design Your Own Word Search | |
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| Choose a Theme | |
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| Gather Your Words | |
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| Make the Big Grid Decisions | |
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| Assemble the Tools of the Trade | |
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| Just Add Words | |
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| Ponder the Punctuation | |
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| Erase and Change as Needed | |
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| Fill in the Grid | |
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| Check and Recheck the Puzzle | |
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| Make It Pretty | |
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| Using a computer | |
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| Writing it out by hand | |