Become a word search whiz — and boost your brain power to boot!

Are you wild about word searches? This fun, go-anywhere guide is packed with puzzles to stretch your skills and strengthen your mind. Inside you'll find eight different kinds of word searches — including one invented by the author! — as well as extensive tips and tricks to improve your puzzle-solving abilities. You'll have a great time mastering increasingly difficult searches while you reap the brain-boosting benefits.

• Working with word searches — get familiar with the eight word search varieties in the book and the strategies for solving each collection

• Start with straightforward puzzles — try simple and story word searches, find hidden words, and solve secret-shape puzzles

• Conquer more complex searches — gather your wits for scrambles, quiz questions, and secret-list and winding word searches

• Play like a pro with bonus puzzles — tackle anagrams and other word games that are guaranteed to make your brain hurt!

• Try not to peek — the answers to all puzzles feature full grids, so you can see where each word is placed

Open the book and find:

• 250 brand-new, handcrafted puzzles

• The brain-boosting benefits of doing word searches

• A chapter with hints for every puzzle

• Ten letter-pattern tips

• Extra or "Ultra" challenging puzzles

• Secrets to designing your own word searches

• Web addresses for online resources

• Fascinating word puzzle facts