Best children puzzle books according to redditors

This sounds like one of those lateral thinking puzzles I used to do when I was a kid.

The Eleventh Hour, maybe?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Eleventh-Hour-Curious-Mystery/dp/0810908514

Is it Puzzle Island? I fucking loved this book as a kid, even tried to make my own in the same style. Each page is a different scene, and you have to find all the hidden pictures in each to solve the big puzzle at the end, in an effort to help a scientist save a dying species from extinction.

Puzzle Island

Ha! Ha! Ha! definitely has a kangaroo with some eye-stuff happening and is bright green as hell.

Puzzle Island by Paul Adshead.

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Puzzle Island by Paul Adshead?

Out of that series, it’s probably StarQuest by Andrew Dixon! Amazon link here though I’m more familiar with the 1999 publication . I loved the series when I was younger, especially the fantasy themed books!

Could it be this? http://www.amazon.com/Maze-Puzzles-Usborne-Superpuzzles-Series/dp/0746015798
It's a book of puzzles with an overarching story line about finding a legendary rock in different ages of a single world. There's a quasi-Middle Ages period, an Ancient Greek one, and an El Dorado one like you said. As I recall (don't have my copy with me) there are indeed sort of ancient astronauts...and everything is inexplicably goose-themed. I hope this is it! If not...I think you'd like it. Good luck!

99% sure you're thinking of this.

Puzzle Island https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Island-Childs-Play-Library/dp/0859534030

Solved! Puzzle Island.

Searched "book illustrated peacocks puzzle"

Once found a book similar to Where’s Waldo called where’s Asterix. Really liked it coz I was into Asterix a lot. Here’s a link.

https://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Asterix-Rene-Goscinny/dp/1444005545

Found it: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/1552976505?cache=4457804c6b4244aeb3ce0bad34956b9e&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&qid=1411936418&sr=1-27

Puzzle Island

A few things I found that they may like:

How to Cosplay: a beginners guild - https://smile.amazon.com/Cosplay-Basics-Beginners-Guide-Costume/dp/1935548816/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494339073&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=sewing+patterns+for+roleplaying

Wish by Clamp: cute story of an angel who comes to Earth. I love it. n_n - 4 books total. Older series so books are cheap. - https://smile.amazon.com/Wish-1-Clamp/dp/1591820340/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1494339507&sr=8-2&keywords=Wish+manga


Metal brain teasers: https://smile.amazon.com/yueton-Brain-Teaser-Puzzles-Puzzle/dp/B0140RKPY4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1494339683&sr=8-6&keywords=brain+games

Brain Game book: https://smile.amazon.com/Brain-Games-Clever-Kids-Exercise/dp/1780552491/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1494339742&sr=8-7&keywords=brain+games


Art book: https://smile.amazon.com/Tangle-Art-Meditative-Beautiful-Instruction/dp/B00FKY98DG/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494339862&sr=1-5&keywords=Art+kits

Natures Art Box: https://smile.amazon.com/Natures-Art-Box-t-shirts-materials/dp/1580174906/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1494340034&sr=8-2&keywords=recycling+arts+for+kids

Crafts: https://smile.amazon.com/Trash-Treasure-Upcycling-Guide-Crafts/dp/193806318X/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1494340236&sr=8-11&keywords=recycling+crafts+for+kids#reader_193806318X

Hmm, this looks similar to The Eleventh Hour, which we had as kids, and spent hours on. There's a few red herrings in it, too, which took hours to solve, then turned out to be nothing. Wholely aggravating. My mom worked on it with us, and we never did figure it out. I ended up cheating by peeking at the answer. But I still have the book, and hope to work through it with my stepdaughter.

I started her slow, by going through Puzzle Island with her. I also got The Red Herring Mystery, but we haven't solved this one yet, and we've gotten away from this. I want to work up to The Eleventh Hour, though. It looks as though Graeme Base has other books as well, which we'll have to check out. My stepdaughter is incredibly smart, and she's eight years old now, and she loves these kind of puzzles. She also REALLY relishes anything that she can do with one of her parents (and yes, I count as one of them - she really digs me these days, which is TOTALLY AWESOME! I get to really be a mom, YAY!).

Anyway, "Masquerade" in Hardback in Good condition is selling for a penny for $3.99 shipping, so I bought a copy. Looks good. :) I'm all for things like this!

Was it Puzzle Castle? https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Castle-Young-Books/dp/0746012845

Puzzle castle, perhaps? It has an overarching story about a girl in a quest, and every page is an illustration where you have to do something different (such as this). It's part of a series of puzzle books with different themes.

I'm pretty sure it's not the Book of Medieval Puzzles, since that one is mostly text. The other one I can think of is the Merlin Book of Logic Puzzles, although that one is much longer than 30 pages.

Usborne Puzzle Castle?
https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Castle-Young-Books/dp/0746012845

Puzzle Mountain? There are whole bunch of these "Puzzle" books. Puzzle Pirates, Puzzle Ocean, Puzzle Jungle, etc...

http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Mountain-Usborne-Young-Books/dp/0746012888/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Happy Birthday to you! I truly hope that your day is peaceful.
(I dont get cards either)

http://www.amazon.com/Brainiest-Insaniest-Ultimate-Puzzle-Book/dp/0761143866/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3VTF5FBW53702&coliid=IE1022D43CN80

this reminds me of a book I had when I was younger - Puzzle Island (https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Island-Childs-Play-Library/dp/0859534030) :)

Is it [Terrormazia] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrormazia-Gamebook-Anna-Nilsen/dp/1564028658)?

Sorry about that

https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Lunchbox-Puzzles-Tear-Outs-Sandwiches/dp/140271386X

Puzzle Journey series? (although doesn't specifically mention optical illusions, so maybe not)

Sorry about your cubical coma!


I think you should pick up one of these puzzle books. I keep one of these and do them when I'm bored or have time to kill. Or if you want something more artistic this looks nice.


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Never mind... I found it, but I don't think it's the one you want. It's called Puzzle Island, no Venice.

https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Island-Childs-Play-Library/dp/0859534030

Found it. Pretty excited. No big deal. ..

http://www.amazon.ca/PUZZLE-ISLAND-pb-Paul-Adshead/dp/0859534030

PICK THIS ONE you will have the coolest book there...

You can buy books with lateral thinking puzzles, or just google "lateral thinking puzzles" and find webpages with some listed.

Pretty sure he had eleven guests over.

It's intentional. It's from a puzzle book, I can't find which one though.

It was a children's adventure book... you had to spot certain things in the pictures and then reconstruct clues.. there was a maze, and a desert with an upside-down rhino made of rocks, and dinosaurs...

Edit: it was Puzzle Island

Doesn't happen to be the recently posted Puzzle Island, does it?

Also: latest possible publication date?

There are plenty of books that are made better by their pictures too. We're not just talking about novels. Think of children's books, for example.

Saying a book like this would be better if it was only text is crazy: http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Island-Childs-Play-Library/dp/0859534030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318796162&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Lateral-Thinking-Puzzlers-Paul-Sloane/dp/0806982276/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0XZD21VG3KQNAPF94E39

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