The Aldens try out a Halloween escape room. The puzzles are fun to solve. But when eerie events start scaring people away, the children find a much bigger case to crack.

In this illustrated fantasy "puzzle quest, " the reader joins three freelance knights on a mission to retrieve a stolen sacred sword and rescue a king from the dreaded Castle Gloom.

Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.

"Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise...

Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.

Simple, rhyming text encourages the reader to search the illustrations for animals and other items found on a farm.

Video game based on the Dreamworks movie Madagascar. Game includes questions about animals and anagrams.

"When Ben is given a challenge to beat a unique computer game, he can then join his globe-trotting uncle on the adventure of a lifetime. Ben, his sister April, friends Grace, Carlos and Serise team up to help him. These five friends could never imagine their ordinary parents are scientists on a secret mission. When their parents go missing, they are forced into unfathomable circumstances and learn of a history that's best left unknown. Now they must...

"Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate search-and-find champion? Are your eagle eyes in focus? Waldo summons you to a search-off! Just take a seat opposite a friend or family member and open up this book of adventures, designed to lie perfectly flat between you so each can search one side of the spread. Try racing against the clock or go head-to-head with your fellow Waldo-hunter, then turn the book around and start again. To keep things...

"Look carefully as you turn each page! Find your favorite nursery rhyme characters hiding throughout this magical new title from Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny"--