"You can be sitting in the train working on a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even in the train. It's something different, something removed from the ordinary." --Maki Kaji, Japanese Times

The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper offers puzzlesmiths the ultimate cranium compendium boasting five challenging mind teasers.

USA TODAY is America's most recognized newspaper reaching more than 5 million people each day. Now, USA TODAY has collected five popular game formats into one book, including: Logic Puzzles, Crossword, Killer Sudoku, and Hitori.

Complete with 400 puzzles (that's twice the size of comparable game books), USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book includes an introductory chapter that offers solution tips as well as a concluding chapter that reveals all the answers.

Pen and pencil puzzles are big business. According to a national poll by the American Society on Aging, 84 percent of people report that they spend time daily in activities that are good for brain health....

Millions of Americans aged eight through 88 are hooked on Sudoku. It is a game of reason and logic. As evidenced by the increasing hordes of fans, it is not only challenging, but addictive as well. According to a recent Newsweek article, Sudoku is the biggest puzzle craze to hit America since the Rubik's Cube in the 1980s. No adding or subtracting, no twists, no surprises: To solve Sudokus a puzzler just needs logic. Once you've completed one USA Today Sudoku puzzle, you won't be able to stop playing them.

A typical Sudoku puzzle can be completed in 10 to 30 minutes, depending on a player's ability and the puzzle's level of difficulty. The game is based solely on numbers, but requires no math skills whatsoever. Similar to a crossword puzzle, Sudoku is a series of nine 3 x 3 grids using each digit from 1 to 9 only once.

USA Today Sudoku contains 200 puzzles categorized into five skill levels. Answers are provided in the back of the book....

The first newspaper in the United States to publish addictive Sudoku puzzles, USA TODAY continues to satisfy puzzle lovers with this second Sudoku book collection, USA Today Everyday Sudoku: 200 Puzzles from The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper.Features include an introductory how-to section followed by two hundred 9 x 9 Sudoku puzzles targeting five different levels of difficulty. A comprehensive answer key completes the collection....

We all see things differently. That's a good thing. And so is this fun new work from USA TODAY. USA TODAY Picture Puzzles is an original collection of spot-the-difference puzzles where puzzlers are challenged with two seemingly identical pictures that on closer inspection are not quite the same.

Puzzles help improve brain health. They are great exercises for improving cognitive thinking and memory....

Bigger is definitely better in the case of the second oversized puzzle book from the world's top newspaper. The USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book 2 is a collection of brain games including 400 puzzles that will amuse and entertain.

Logic, crossword, Sudoku, Word Roundup, and Hidato will keep fans busy for hours and hours. This hefty tome features twice the number of puzzles than most books and for just a few dollars more. Sharpen your pencils and get ready for challenging fun!...

Despite an astonishing, drum-thumping opening ceremony that clearly announced China's ascendance as a 21st-century superpower, it was a tall, gangly kid from Baltimore who stole the spotlight, and in eight shining, golden moments, made us all proud to be Americans. Like Jesse Owens before him, Michael Phelps showed the rest of the world how great America can be, and shined the brightest when it mattered most. This book chronicles the remarkable story of Michael Phelps, the greatest Olympic athlete in history, as told by the writers, editors, and photographers of USA Today....