Contents

– Introduction by Gyles Brandreth –

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– PILLOW PROBLEMS –

Calming Calculations  1

Magic Numbers  7

Tangrams  10 The Labyrinth  12 Word Ways  13

Doublets  14 Board Game for One  17

– NIGHT WRITING –

The Nyctograph  21 Rules for Letter Writing  28 Letter to a Child-Friend  35 The Alphabet Cipher  37

– RHYMES AT MIDNIGHT –

Verses with a Moral  41

Di lut ions  44 Acrostic  46 Charade  47 Limericks  49