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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles

By Alex Bellos
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$11.99
By Alex Bellos
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100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language

Whether you're a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting:


boru niko = two balls


tsuna nihon = two ropes


uma nito = two horses


kami nimai = two sheets of paper


ashi gohon = five ...

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